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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Iowa

How To Enjoy It

Wildlife Country 

Jon Krakauer

Bought new for school, no interior markings. Excellent condition. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Krakauer's page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.

"Terrifying... Eloquent... A heart-rending drama of human yearning." --New York Times

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. 

When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Into the Wild

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All About Tomatoes West Edition-
Paperback: good condition
- How to select and grow the best tomatoes for your region
- Old favorites, new disease-resistant varieties, best plants for containers
- Tips on training, mulching, watering, fertilizing, preventing trouble
- 67 recipes to capture the home-grown flavor in the kitchen

All About Fertilizers, Soils & Water-
Paperback: some wear on front cover, otherwise good condition
- How to select & use the best fertilizers for your garden plants, water most efficiently and improve difficult soils.


California

All About Tomatoes West Edition, All About Fertilizers, Soils & Water

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

The Only Kayak: A Journey Into the Heart of Alaska 

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Cheryl Strayed

North Carolina

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

Wild

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National Parks Guide

#paperback #outdoors #homedecor #openair #garden #landscape

Pennsylvania

Enrica Stabile invites you to view the great outdoors from a fresh perspective. She explores open air spaces for relaxing, for eating, for working, and for bathing, all in her own distinctive style. Enrica also presents the components required to define your space, choosing furniture, fabrics, and lighting to suit the mood or occasion.

Open Air Living

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Jon Billman

Arkansas

Seeking the Missing in North America's Wilderness

For readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, the critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's "authentic and encyclopedic" look at people who vanish in the wilderness without a trace and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them, now in paperback (Roman Dial). These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassment for park superintendents, rangers and law enforcement charged with Search & Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mountains, woods and badlands. The stories that should give you pause every time you venture outdoors. Through Jacob Gray's disappearance in Olympic National Park, and his father Randy Gray who left his life to search for him, we will learn about what happens when someone goes missing. Braided around the core will be the stories of the characters who fill the vacuum created by a vanished human being. We'll meet eccentric bloodhound-handler Duff and R.C., his flagship purebred, who began trailing with the family dog after his brother vanished in the San Gabriel Mountains. And there's Michael Neiger North America's foremost backcountry Search & Rescue expert and self-described "bushman" obsessed with missing persons. And top researcher of persons missing on public wildlands Ex-San Jose, California detective David Paulides who is also one of the world's foremost Bigfoot researchers. It's a tricky thing to write about missing persons because the story is the absence of someone. A void. The person at the heart of the story is thinner than a smoke ring, invisible as someone else's memory. The bones you dig up are most often metaphorical. While much of the book will embrace memory and faulty memory -- history -- The Cold Vanish is at its core a story of now and tomorrow. Someone will vanish in the wild tomorrow. These are the people who will go looking.

The Cold Vanish

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#nature #outdoors #nonfiction #paperback #hiking #AppalachianTrail

Florida

One Man's Journey to peace and freedom on the Appalachian Trail

Hiking Through

Kansas

Arizona

Bill Bryson

Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts

A Walk in the Woods

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Tim Cahill

Maryland

Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered

In Pass the Butterworms, Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the “Mongolian death trot”; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in the 36-degree water; to Irian Jaya New Guinea, where he spends a companionable evening with members of one of the last head-hunting tribes. Whether observing family values among the Stone Age Dani people, or sampling delicacies like sautéed sago beetle and premasticated manioc beer, Cahill is a fount of arcane information and a master of self-deprecating humor.

Pass the Butterworms

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#hardcover #poetry #childrenspoems #blossomandroot #nature #naturecurriculum #naturepoetry #earlyeducation #homeschool #outdoors #wildschool

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

A Year of Nature Poems

West Virginia

Tristan Gooley

Liontoe

Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals--And Other Forgotten Skills

Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand dune reveals prevailing wind; the scent of cinnamon suggests altitude; a budding flower points south. To help you understand nature as he does, Gooley shares more than 850 tips for forecasting, tracking, and more, gathered from decades spent walking the landscape around his home and around the world. Whether you’re walking in the country or city, along a coastline, or by night, this is the ultimate resource on what the land, sun, moon, stars, plants, animals, and clouds can reveal—if you only know how to look!

The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs

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Slight cover wear #paperback #outdoors #gear #lifestyle #adults #sport

Kentucky

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Wisconsin

Wandering outdoor trails with Dave Carlson

(Signed first edition) ... the way the stick floats

Jeremy Evans

Previously published as: The Practical Encyclopedia of Sailing

Indiana

A Practical Handbook

This practical manual is aimed at all sailors, from newcomers to the more experienced. For beginners there is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to getting started, learning the core techniques, choosing the best boat to suit your ability, and basic safety requirements. There is a guide for experienced seafarers about more advanced sailing, such as high-performance dinghies and keelboats. Two sections give the vital facts and figures about regatta and big boat racing.With an emphasis on the practical, together with clear action photography and informative text, this book will be an essential guide for all those who love to get out on the water. . The ultimate reference book for sailors of all ages and all levels of ability. . Step-by-step guides give instant understanding of techniques, and illustrate all aspects of the sport, from putting on a wetsuit to handling dinghies, catamarans and cruisers. . Includes information on all aspects of safe sailing: buoyancy aids, distress signals, man overboard rescue procedures and rights of way at sea.

Sailing

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Jerry Baker

How to Grow Green Grass, Gorgeous Flowers, and Great Vegetables--Without a Green Thumb!

Discusses lawn care and shows how to grow healthy trees, shrubs, groundcovers, flowers, vegetables, and house plants

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