Oregon's classiest hiking guidebook is all color and packed with the best trails the state has to offer -- which is saying a lot!
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This full-color guidebook not only offers the best 100 hikes in and around Yosemite National Park, but is also one of the best-looking guidebooks you'll ever own.
“1001 Climbing Tips is a refreshing take on the climbing guide genre. Irreverent, it has a laugh on virtually every page, but also some extremely useful advise and some points of genuine interest.” – Paul Pritchard, 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition Jury
In alternating chapters a young couple each tells their account of the epic Pacific Crest Trail adventure (a 2,655-mile hike) that deepened their bond -- or did it?
"'A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound' is unreservedly and urgently recommended for personal, community, and academic library collections and contemporary environmental studies reading lists." - Midwest Book Review
Exquisite photography of the life in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, along with essays by writers such as Peter Matthiessen and David Allen Sibley
A celebration in words and photography of the birds that migrate each year to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to nest and return to every point on the globe
A research project to the Arctic National Wildlfe Preserve slowly becomes much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.
Extraordinary photographs and essays by leading ornithologists combine in this celebration of birds and exploration of why habitat protection is critical for their future
The biography of Charles Houston, M.D., famed for leading the heroic K2 expedition of 1953 and his pioneering research in high-altitude medicine.
“In a new book, photographer David Moskowitz turns his lens on the story of a rapidly declining species and habitat” – Smithsonian
A thoughtful, elegant exploration of the hardships and joys of search and rescue, life and death, risk and motherhood
The seminal work on how the body responds to high altitude, including the current science science in this edition
Twenty-six extreme, cynical, and over-the-top stories by Dr. Doom and the only collection of his work
Leif Whittaker finds a path of his own among a family—father, mother, uncle, cousins—of famous adventurers
<i>“For anyone who appreciates wild things and wild places, each of Paul Bannick’s stunning photographs is worth ten thousand words.” </i><br> – Ted Williams, Audubon
Selections of the best writing from the elite mountaineer Greg Child now in paperback.
Best-selling climbing instructional, now fully updated, includes new, vetted alternatives to traditional techniques
"Local food writer Jill Lightner knows all the tips … her brand-new book 'Scraps, Peels, and Stems: Recipes and Tips for Rethinking Food Waste at Home' is stuffed full of them. If you’ve got the will to reduce how much you waste, she’s got all the ways." –The Seattle Times
A team of scientists is urgently working to understand the ticking carbon bomb locked in permafrost soils which are thawing at an alarming rate.
Friendship, sacrifice, and a fight for survival on the two most dangerous mountains in North America
“Jim Herrington’s wonderful new folio volume of portraits, titled simply The Climbers, aims at a lofty plateau. Herrington seeks to crystallize his own Golden Age…he tries not only to document the visages of his heroes in their older years, but also to plumb those faces for keys to the character beneath. It is as if Richard Avedon had photographed mountaineers rather than movie stars, minus the props and gimmicks.” - David Roberts, Sierra Magazine
Images and stories celebrate the connection between wild salmon and the people of Alaska--past, present, and future
<i>“…this book exudes humility and hope.”</i> – The Kitsap Herald
A modern, sustainable approach for stocking an efficient kitchen
"'Walking to the End of the World' keeps us turning its pages--an elegant story woven in the seasoned voice of writer Beth Jusino, who shares great insight into her own strengths and weaknesses, relationships of all sorts, and a world view we’d all do well to consider." –Steven Watkins, author of Pilgrim Strong: Rewriting My Story on the Way of St. James
The health of Puget Sound is in jeopardy and its future depends on the collaboration of dedicated individuals and organizations.
Herds of elk, mule deer, and pronghorn antelope have migrated hundreds of miles over North America for millennia-—driven by their DNA, their routes follow ancient travel paths
Essayists tell of their travels through the region and their experience of the land. They explain the need for Y2Y, based on new findings that reveal that isolated nature sanctuaries are a recipe for wildlife extinction.