Fieldbook
10 best books like Fieldbook (Boy Scouts of America): The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants, A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, The Backpacker's Field Manual, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skills, Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic, Be Expert with Map and Compass: The Complete Orienteering Handbook, The Essential Lenny Bruce, The Official Boy Scout Handbook, The Complete Walker, Pocket Ref, Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
| Author | Samuel Thayer |
| ISBN | 0976626608 |
Fewer foods but more in-depth than Edible Wild Plants. The author is hilarious and so readable. He's been hooked on wild foods since he was 6, and he always supplements what he reads with personal experimentation. For instance, whereas authors of other wild food books just repeat the nonsense about...
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
| Author | Roger Tory Peterson |
Features the unique Peterson Identification System, which has never been surpassed as a tool for field identification and is available only in Peterson Guides. "The Birder's Bible" for over sixty years. All the birds of eastern and central North America--including accidentals, exotics, and escapes--shown...
| Author | Rick Curtis |
| ISBN | 1400053099 |
When it was first published in 1998, The Backpacker's Field Manual set the standard for comprehensive backpacking books. Now exhaustively updated to offer a more complete view of backpacking today, it covers the latest developments in gear—such as Global Positioning Systems and ultralight hiking...
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0792254872 |
Polar fleece, titanium, and GPS have forever changed the face of exploration. Today an explorer can make a phone call from the top of Mount Everest and geo-locate himself in the thickest rain forest or the widest desert. Yet despite these advances, few modern adventures get close to the charm and romance...
| Author | Björn Kjellström |
| ISBN | 0020292651 |
"Required reading for the beginner in map and compass work, as well as for those interested in serious Orienteering. In simple, clear, concise terms the basics of map and compass work are described and illustrated."
--George T. Hamilton, Appalachia This new, enlarged edition of Be Expert with...
| Author | John Cohen |
| ISBN | 0333455029 |
I have a story which I think really shows the essential Lenny Bruce although it's not in this, or any other book.
I was editing one of Jay Landesman's many manuscripts at the time and we were talking about his St Louis nightclub, the Crystal Palace and how Barbra Streisand got discovered. Jay told...
Irrespective of whether you think the Boy Scouts organization is or is not politically "correct" in its treatment of gay males, this edition of the Boy Scout Handbook (9th edition, first published circa 1979) is a compendium of practical wisdom on such topics as camp cooking, first aid, how to tie knots,...
| Author | Colin Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0375703233 |
For the first time since 1984, we have a new edition of the classic book that Field & Stream called "the Hiker's Bible." For this version, the celebrated writer and hiker Colin Fletcher has taken on a coauthor, Chip Rawlins, himself an avid outdoorsman and a poet from Wyoming. Together, they have...
| Author | Thomas J. Glover |
| ISBN | 1885071337 |
Pocket Ref is an amazing reference containing 544 pages of tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions. Best of all, it fits in your shirt pocket! (3.2" x 5.4" x 0.7")The following chapters are contained in Pocket Ref:
-- Air
-- Automotive
-- Carpentry & Construction
--...
Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180
| Author | Mike Magnuson |
| ISBN | 1400052416 |
Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time.
Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0394533909 |
I read the "Amateur Naturalist" over 30 years ago and dreamed of someday designing a natural history laboratory in the way of Gerald and Lee Durrell. Alas, the years slipped by, and my dream remained unfulfilled. And then, surprisingly, I recently embarked upon a new teaching career in math and science....
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0486469476 |
He was an ordained minister, renowned orator, and beloved author and poet whose ideas on nature, philosophy, and religion influenced authors such as Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Through his writings, Emerson ardently professed the importance of being an individual, resisting the...
| Author | C. Calvin Jones |
| ISBN | 0976553007 |
The Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair is a comprehensive manual of over 130 bicycle repairs and maintenance procedures. It is written by Calvin Jones, one of the top bicycle mechanics in the country, and published by Park Tool, the world's leading manufacturer of bicycle tools. The book is written for...
Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
| Author | Scott Crow |
| ISBN | 1604860774 |
Tracing a life of radical activism and the emergence of a grassroots organization in the face of disaster, this chronicle describes scott crow's headlong rush into the political storm surrounding the catastrophic failure of the levee in New Orleans in 2005 and the subsequent failure...
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 0140150315 |
Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends’ advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner...
On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians
| Author | Iamblichus of Chalcis |
This volume, On the Mysteries, by Iamblichus (Abamun) is a unique form or scripture out of the Ancient Egyptian religious tradition. It is written in a form that is not usual or which is not usually found in the remnants of Ancient Egyptian scriptures. It is in the form of teacher and disciple, much like...
Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money
| Author | Dolly Freed |
| ISBN | 0982053932 |
In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. At the time of its publication in 1978, Possum Living became an instant classic, known...
Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping: Timeless Wisdom and Practical Advice
| Author | Miriam Lukken |
| ISBN | 0446530131 |
i love this old fashioned housewifey stuff. did you know that throwing borax on the fire in your fireplace will keep the chimney clean? all kinds of household advice and even some business on how to entertain and make people feel welcome and how to hold a decent conversation or write a thank you note. some...
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| ISBN | 8172242689 |
Jim Corbett's fame rests on his tales of hunting in the Indian jungle, but he was acutely sensitive to the fragility of nature and well ahead of his time in understanding the need for conservation. Jungle Lore is the closest Jim Corbett ever came to an autobiography, revealing his life-long passion for...
| Author | Chris Highland |
| ISBN | 0899972853 |
Beautiful quotes from Muir's work are signed off at the end of each page with prayers and quotes from all religions.
"Come to the woods, for here is rest.
There is no repose like that of the
green deep woods.
Here grow the wallflower and the violet.
The squirrel will come and sit...
What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew about Women
| Author | James C. Dobson |
| ISBN | 0842378960 |
I was given this book as an early wedding gift from a friend before I married. Although it was several years old then, this book was still relevant, and still is today. It is a book suitable for any man - single or married alike.
I have read the book a few times since I read it the first time before marriage....
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
| Author | David Herlihy |
| ISBN | 0674076133 |
The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. As in a finely tuned detective story, he upturns intriguing bits of epidemiological evidence....
Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival
| Author | Mors Kochanski |
| ISBN | 1551051222 |
Longtime wilderness educator Mors Kochanski has dedicated his life to learning and teaching about the lore of the forest. With clear instructions, extensive use of diagrams and a color photo supplement, this comprehensive reference includes all the practical skills and knowledge essential for...
Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive!
| Author | Myke Hawke |
| ISBN | 0762433582 |
Green Beret and outdoor survival expert Mykel Hawke provides the most practical and accessible survival skills and information necessary for anyone to survive an unexpected situation in the outdoors. These are the most tried-and-true methods based on Hawke’s 25- year career as a captain in the...
Human Anatomy Coloring Book: an Entertaining and Instructive Guide to the Human Body - Bones, Muscles, Blood, Nerves and How They Work
| Author | Margaret Matt |
| ISBN | 0486241386 |
From a biological point of view, the human body is an infinitely complex marvel of fine design, superbly adapted to its functions by eons of evolutionary development. Hundreds of specialized organs, bones, muscles, nerve fibers, blood vessels, and other anatomical features comprise an interdependent...
