Books

Adventure Skills Guides: Essential Knots: Secure Your Gear When Camping, Hiking, Fishing, and Playing Outdoors

Learn to tie 21 knots for the outdoors and everyday life!You never know when you’ll need just the right knot. Maybe you want to haul something atop your car. Perhaps you have to stake a tree or tether your dog. From tying a kite string to mooring a...

Adventure Skills Guides: Foraging in North America: The Top 12 Plants to Seek Out

Learn to identify, collect, and prepare wild edibles!Step into your backyard, garden, or nearby green space, and harvest an abundance of free, nutritious, and organic greens, tubers, and fruits.Foraging in North Americaintroduces you to 12 widely...

Adventure Skills Guides: Outdoor Medicine: Management of Wilderness Medical Emergencies

Manage hiking, camping, backpacking, and outdoor emergenciesThere’s never a good place for a medical emergency, but some locations are much worse than others. If you are out in nature, far from help, when the unthinkable happens, you must be prepared...

Adventure Skills Guides: Outdoor Survival: A Guide to Staying Safe Outside

Learn how to survive in the wilderness until help arrivesYou need one vital tool to stay alive in a dangerous situation: good information! So forget everything you think you’ve learned from your favorite survival shows on TV and the movies.Outdoor...

Whose Butt?

Butts are funny―especially to kids. Award-winning wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela takes advantage of this giggle-worthy topic, using it as an educational bridge to introduce children to facts about animals. Readers are shown an animal’s behind and...

Hidden Critters: Can You Find Them All?

Can you find the hidden critters in these photographs?Animals aren’t always easy to spot. Some hide while they hunt. Others hide to avoid being hunted. Many critters don’t need to hide―their colors match their surroundings. Wildlife photographer...

Mushrooms of the Northwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms

Get This Great Visual Guide to Mushrooms!Hundreds of full-color photographs with easy-to-understand text make this a perfect visual guide. Learn about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northwest states of Idaho, Oregon, and...

Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest

Featuring more than 1240 stunning color photographs, this comprehensive field guide will remain a trusted, authoritative trailside reference for years to come. It describes and illustrates 1220 commonly encountered species, both native and nonnative,...

Best Tent Camping: Washington: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization

Perfect Camping for You in Washington!The Evergreen State provides a spectacular backdrop for some of the most scenic campgrounds in the country. But do you know which campgrounds offer the most privacy? Which are the best for first-time campers? Ellie...

Rocks & Minerals of the Pacific Coast

Get the perfect guide to rocks and minerals of the Pacific Coast!Keep this tabbed booklet close at hand on your next rock-hunting adventure. Based on Dan R. Lynch and Bob Lynch’s best-selling field guides and featuring 52 of the most common and...

Vibrant Butterflies: Our Favorite Visitors to Flowers and Gardens

A Celebration of Beautiful ButterfliesMore than 700 species of butterflies live in North America, and all are worthy of our admiration. Butterflies are perhaps the most beautiful and easily recognizable insects in the world. They hold our attention like...

Simply Stargazing: Your Guide to the Stars, Moon, and Night Sky

Your Night Sky CompanionTo gaze skyward is to be filled with wonder. You might find yourself asking questions like, “Is that bright object a planet or a star? What does the constellation Perseus look like? When’s the next meteor shower?” Find these...