| | Bookstore: Great Outdoors | If you're serious about working in the great outdoors, definitely check out these books! We have picked out the very best titles for enhancing your experience. The JobMonkey bookstore is in partnership with Amazon.com. Reviews are provided by Amazon.com. | | National Parks | National Geographic's Guide to the National Parks of the United States (3rd Edition)
by Elizabeth L. Newhouse (editor) | Synopsis
It's impressive how much National Geographic can squeeze into a small book. Each entry tells how big the park is, describes its flavor, indicates when it's best to go and how to get there, and includes an elegantly useful map. A detailed tour of the sights includes glorious pictures (450 total), highlighting the best of each park. But practicalities are not neglected: entries include headquarters' addresses and
phones, entrance fees, facilities for the disabled, accommodations, pet regulations, and what there is to do. And so it goes for each of the 54 parks--it's a gem of a guide.
Paperback - 448 pages 3 edition (April 1997) | | Wildlife Refuges | Guide to the National Wildlife Refuges
by Laura Riley, William Riley (Contributor) | Synopsis
For travelers interested in seeking out wild animals without having to enter the deep wilderness, there is no better resource than this. It will guide you to some 225 federal preserves across the United
States, from Rhode Island's postage-stamp-sized Ninigret to Alaska's 19.5 million-acre Arctic reserves, both homes to a wide range of wildlife. Laura and William Riley, who helped found the Raptor Trust in the 1970s, have an easygoing style that balances their sometimes overwhelmingly exhaustive cataloging of the nation's wild creatures. Their useful book ought to make a lot of readers head for the nearest wildlife refuge--every state has at least one--and take a look for
themselves.
Paperback - 684 pages Rev&Exp edition (March 1993) | | Wilderness Stories | Another Wilderness : Notes from the New Outdoorswoman
by Susan Fox Rogers | Synopsis
Midwest Book Review
This literary collection of outdoor writing by women will pull the readers from their armchairs and propel them up mountain sides, carry them deep under the sea, and take them down paths lined with memory, desire and the spirit of adventure. Whether they are scaling Denali or mountain biking over the hills of Marin, California, the voices in Another
Wilderness describe (through both hair-raising stories and meditative essays) their physical, spiritual and transformative relationship to outdoor life. Fresh and original work by well-known writers and talented new voices, Another Wilderness is a collection sure to become a landmark in outdoor literature.
Paperback 336 pages (September 1997) | | Bureau of Land Management | Beyond the National Parks : A Recreation Guide to Public Lands in the West
by Mary E. Tisdale (Editor), Bibi Booth (Editor) | Synopsis
Beyond the National Parks is an
informative guide to the 264 million acres of wild lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. BLM public lands offer more recreational opportunities over a broader geographical area than any other Federal land agency. In 1996, nearly 60 million people visited the public lands for recreational purposes, which included some of the following opportunities: hiking, fishing, hunting, boating, horseback riding, birding, fossil collecting, off- roading, camping, and visiting historical,
archaeological, and cultural sites. This book is full of beautiful photos, detailed maps, and detailed descriptions of BLM land so don't miss it!
Paperback - 418 pages (May 1998) | | State Parks | State Parks of the United States:
National Geographics Guide | Synopsis
National Geographic's familiar golden-yellow border bespeaks the quality color photographs (250 of them!) that make this guidebook as fun to look at as it is to read. More than 200 state parks in all 50 states are skillfully reported on in classic National
Geographic style. Each section includes a park overview, driving directions, suggestions for what to see and do, and camping and lodging ideas. After these parks were chosen from the recommendations of state-park directors, National Geographic sent regional travel writers to work exploring, collecting firsthand details, and gleaning insider information from park staff. Clearly marked maps are easy to use and lead the reader through many of the selections, detailing important sights, trails,
and campgrounds. Sidebars offer extra advice and historical or environmental accounts.
Paperback - 384 pages (March 1998) | | Forest Fires - Fighting Fires | Fire in America : A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book.)
by Stephen J. Pyne, William Cronon | Synopsis
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Paperback - 680 pages Reprint edition (March 1997) | | Firefighter's Handbook on Wildland Firefighting
by William C. Teie, Dave A. Hubert (Illustrator) | Synopsis
This award-winning textbook is a
basic-to-intermediate study of wildland firefighting. It includes weather, fire behavior, use of aircraft, engines and bulldozers, as well as strategies and tactics. Over 40 community colleges and hundreds of fire departments, and state and federal agencies use this textbook. It is also used as a training manual in such countries as the Peoples Republic of China, Spain, and Argentina.
Hardcover - 324 pages 1st edition | | Young Men & Fire
by Norman MacLean | Synopsis
A work that consumed 14 years of Maclean's life, and earned a 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, Young Men and Fire tells the story of a Rocky Mountain forest fire that that claimed the lives of 13 young smoke jumpers on August 5, 1949, at Mann Gulch, Montana. The firefighters perished in a "blowup"--an explosive, 2,000-degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall. The excruciating detail of this book makes for a sobering reading experience. Maclean--a former University of Chicago English professor and avid fisherman--also wrote A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, which is set along the Missouri River, one gulch downstream from Mann. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title.
Paperback 301 pages Reissue edition (October 1993) | |
General Outdoors | The Best of Outside : The First 20 Years (Vintage Departures)
by Edward Abbey (Editor), Outside Magazine (Editor), Barry Lopez (Contributor), Annie Proulx (Contributor) |
Synopsis
For two decades Outside magazine has remained committed to good writing, publishing feature articles from well-known authors on a variety of topics connected (in sometimes obscure yet fascinating ways) to the outdoors, adventure, travel, and just about anything else that happens beyond the confines of the mall. The most memorableof these pieces are collected in a single anthology, The Best of Outside: Tom McGuane offers compelling reasons to hunt; Jonathan Raban discusses life
on the open ocean; Barry Lopez considers the graceful and beleaguered flocks of snow geese that once filled the skies. Also included are the original articles from Jon Krakauer and Sebastian Junger that would expand into their bestselling books Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, respectively.
Paperback - 420 pages 1 Ed edition (September 1998) | | Castaway in Paradise
by James C. Simmons | Synopsis
Castaway in Paradise relates the exciting stories of castaways who, because of shipwrecks, treacherous
sea captains or their own choice, found themselves true-life Robinson Crusoes. From Alexander Selkirk (Defoe's model for Crusoe) to Melville's voluntary marooning in the Marquesas, to Tom Neale, a drifter from New Zealand who became the hermit of Suwarrow, the author presents a fascinating array of castaways and their adventures.
Paperback - 272 pages (October 1998) | | Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
by David Quammen | Synopsis
Besides bringing together a couple decades' worth of literate, eloquent forays into the natural world, this collection of essays from the prize-winning author of The Song of the Dodo is both a wake-up call and a testimonial. Mostly gathered from magazine articles--in particular, from the author's 15 years of "Natural Acts," a column in Outside magazine--Quammen reminds us of the many less-quantifiable virtues of the wild that often get squashed in the path of so-called progress. Beginning with the Rocky Mountain trout that, as a young man, would alter his course through life, and meandering through a variety of travels and experiences around the globe, he touches on issues of wildlife conservation, island biogeography (the subject of his award-winning Song of the Dodo), and outdoor recreation. But there are surprises. Quammen learns about mountain lions by looking over the shoulder of a Montana bow hunter, and he delights in the athletic grace of telemark skiing and white-water rodeo. Still, the rallying cry is made clear in the introduction's first paragraph: "Wild places, in the ordinary sense of that phrase, are in preciously short supply on planet Earth at the end of the twentieth century."
Hardcover - 352 pages (February 1998) | |
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