Author : Edward Marshall Scull
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Hunting
ISBN :
Account of author's hunting trips up the Yukon River, and to Chukotsk Peninsula; bear and walrus hunting in arctic seas; and trips up the Alaska and Kenai peninsulas.
Author : Michael Strahan
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Big game hunting
ISBN : 9780916771232
Author : Michael Easter
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0593138775
“If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.
Author : Richard K. Nelson
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226571768
Author : Heather Paul
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2022-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781989689394
By turns funny, savage, poetic and heartbreaking, Safety in Bear Country follows Serena, a recent graduate from art school who thought she'd have it all figured out and be making a comfortable living as an artist, but instead finds herself dumped by her boyfriend and back in her parents' basement in the backwater town she couldn't wait to leave. The year is 1994: miserable and lost in the dark forest of her early twenties, Serena takes a job with her small town's main employer, an institution for people with developmental disabilities. When one of the residents dies in her care, Serena flees the trauma, ultimately embarking on a journey that pushes and pulls her between constraint and freedom, despair and hope. Set in small-town Ontario, Australia, northern British Columbia and Miami, Safety in Bear Country pulls the reader with gorgeous and inventive prose though a world of inequity, spirituality, activism and psychedelics as Serena labours to make sense of her place in the world.
Author : T. Edward Nickens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493059653
The Last Wild Road is a raucous, gripping, sometimes terrifying, often hilarious, and deeply meditative journey through the heart of the outdoors in the modern world. Collected from more than 20 years of hunting and fishing cover stories, columns, and adventure tales written by T. Edward Nickens for Field & Stream, this book is a road trip that takes in a huge sweep of the North American landscape—blackwater rivers in the wilds of eastern North Carolina, deserts and prairies of the American West, remote tundra of northern Canada, and the wildest rivers of Alaska. Along every rutted road and rough trail, with a rod, gun, and pen, Nickens meets unforgettable characters—old French-speaking Cajuns at Louisiana squirrel camps, a one-armed fly-tyer in the ancient Appalachians, Pennsylvania brothers who lost their father in a hunting accident decades ago and return to the scene for a powerful, poignant encounter with history. He explores remote wilderness waters to chase trout and ducks, but finds rich meaning, too, in the familiar and close-to-home: fishing with his children, plumbing the forests of local farms, and butchering deer in his basement as a thanksgiving for the gifts of the outdoors. When it comes to hunting and fishing, writing often falls into the categories of where-to-go, the how-do-it, and the-what-to-bring. This book embarks on the question of “why.” Why does the pursuit of game and fish, and the travel to the wild places where they thrive, bring meaning and clarity to living in the modern world? Why do we laugh more, and live more deeply, far from the sidewalk? If you’ve ever felt that way, you’ll find yourself in The Last Wild Road.
Author : Seth Kantner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 159485971X
2023 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD in Environmental/Ecology 2022 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Natural History Literature "A Thousand Trails Home is a book of supernal majesty, a book to break and restore your heart. Seth Kantner’s devotion to the living pulse and unity of the skein of wonder that is the Alaskan wilderness haunts and inspires me." -- Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman Bestselling, award-winning author of Ordinary Wolves, a debut novel Publisher’s Weekly called “a tour de force” Conservation-based story of changing Arctic from an on-the-ground perpective Features full-color photography throughout A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and the larger Arctic region. This story has global relevance as it takes place in one of the largest remaining intact wilderness ecosystems on the planet, ground zero for climate change in the US. This compelling and complex tale revolves around the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction—a story that requires a fearless writer with an honest voice and an open heart.
Author : Tony Russ
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : Dall sheep hunting
ISBN : 9780974168432
The book contains diagrams and detailed explanations of 49 stalks in the 49th State taken by Tony Russ on actual hunts for Dall sheep. Learn to blind-stalk from above, stalk from below, maneuver to get above sheep, approach horizontally, PLUS get within bow range of Dall sheep. Since taking his first Dall sheep in 1978, Tony Russ successfully hunted sheep with a rifle, a pistol, and six times with archery gear in addition to guiding dozens of clients on successful sheep hunts. Sheep Hunting in Alaska, which he wrote in 1994, is the undisputed bible for sheep hunters. With this title, he shows and tells hunters how to stalk within range of Dall sheep with any hunting weapon.Sheep Stalking in Alaska will teach you to analyze: TOPOGRAPHY, THERMAL ACTIVITY, SHEEP ACTIVITY, & THE ODDS OF SUCCESS so you can successfully stalk Dall sheep.
Author : Seth Kantner
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571313010
His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the 1950s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Through a series of moving essays and vivid photographs, ranging in subject from family histories to hunting stories, celebrations of people and places to a lament over a majestic wilderness rapidly disappearing, Shopping for Porcupine provides a compelling, intimate view of America's last frontier -- the same place that captivated so many readers of Ordinary Wolves.
Author : Joseph Grinnell
Publisher : Elgin, Ill. ; Chicago : David C. Cook publishing Company
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Alaska
ISBN :
Experiences at Kotzebue sound and Nome.
