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Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals
Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals
by Una McGovern and Paul Jenner
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Drawing on folklore, tradition, and superstition, this amusing collection is packed with the wisdom you wish your grandparents had passed down to you. It includes methods to cure drunkenness, predict the sex of a baby, and make antidotes to poison ... (read more)

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    Fool's Paradise

    John Gierach
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    Winchester Shotguns

    Dennis Adler
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General
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The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do
The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do
by Conn Iggulden
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A pocket-sized book of wisdom based on the bestselling phenomenon, The Dangerous Book for Boys, this portable edition includes some favorite activities from the original book, along with some even more dangerous new ones! With everything from how to win... (read more)

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Conservation and Animal Rights
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Eating Animals
Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got... (read more)

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Oregon Hiking
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Pokin' Round the Gorge
Pokin' Round the Gorge
by Scott Cook
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America's sexiest outdoors hiking guide! Ready for a sexy and romantic hiking/exploring vacation in the magnificent Columbia River Gorge? Come play in Oregon's Garden of Eden. Grab your sweetheart and get swept up in the romance of exploring hidden... (read more)

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Stories and Essays
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If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
by Bill Heavey
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For nearly a decade, Bill Heavey, an outdoorsman marooned in suburbia, has written the “Sportsman’s Life” column on the back page of Field & Stream, where he does for hunting and fishing what David Feherty does for golf and Lewis... (read more)

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Mountaineering Literature
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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The extraordinary bestselling true story of a young man's uncompromising pilgrimage that ended in tragedy.... (read more)

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Camping Guides
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National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States (National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States)
National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States (National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States)
by National Geographic
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Featuring 375 color photos and 80 full-color detailed maps--more than any other park guidebook--this is the most comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book of its kind on the market today. A perennial favorite with more than a million copies sold in previous... (read more)

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Mountaineering
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K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
by Ed Viesturs
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A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out... (read more)

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Handguns (Handguns)
Handguns (Handguns)
by Dave Arnold
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The latest edition of the top-selling handguns annual presents new reports on handguns for field and personal protection use. The comprehensive catalog section is fully updated, expanded, and well illustrated, displaying today's commercially available... (read more)

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Never Sniff a Gift Fish
Never Sniff a Gift Fish
by Patrick F Mcmanus
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More humerous observations and insights into the agonies and ecstacies of hunting, fishing, and camping by the author of They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?and other celebrations of life in the wild.... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Friday, December 18, 2009
Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals
  1. Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals
    by Una McGovern and Paul Jenner
  2. Eating Animals
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  3. The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do
    by Conn Iggulden
  4. Pokin' Round the Gorge
    by Scott Cook
  5. Wilderness Survival 2ND Edition
    by Gregory J Davenport

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Thursday, January 14, 2010
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