Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking
10 best books like Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking (Tom Brown Jr.): Abhorsen, Talking to Dragons, Entreat Me, Cruel Beauty, Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves, The Vanishing, Hollywood Nocturnes, Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants, The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
| Author | Garth Nix |
| ISBN | 0060278250 |
The Ninth was strong and fought with might
But lone Orannis was put out of the light
Broken in two and buried under hill
Forever to lie there, wishing us ill.
So says the song. But Orannis, the Destroyer, is no longer buried under hill. It has been freed from its subterranean prison...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152046917 |
Always be polite to dragons!
That's what Daystar's mother taught him...and it's a very wise lesson--one that might just help him after his mom hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Especially because his house sits on the edge of the Enchanted Forest and his mother is Queen Cimorene.
But...
Afflicted by a centuries-old curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son returns home one day, accompanied by a woman of incomparable beauty. His family believes her arrival may herald Ballard's...
| Author | Rosamund Hodge |
| ISBN | 0062224735 |
Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.
With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060957379 |
From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations...
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0316881791 |
More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone—studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou...
| Author | Tim Krabbé |
| ISBN | 0747565333 |
Petrol gauge broken, anxiety and tempers flaring, young lovers Rex and Saskia, heading for the South of France, pull in at a service station to refuel. The moment they stop they make up and Rex buries two coins in the base of a fence post as a sign of their love. Saskia goes off to buy cold drinks and vanishes....
| Author | James Ellroy |
| ISBN | 0385333285 |
Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).
Dig this: the swinging sax man's doing repos...
Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
| Author | Samuel Thayer |
| ISBN | 0976626616 |
After reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, I found myself looking at the ground next to the sidewalk when taking my son for walks. I wondered what wild lettuce looked like, was that mushroom growing in my yard edible (the squirrels seemed to think so), and could I eat the red berries on the tree in front of my...
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...
Kethlun Warder was a gifted glassmaker until his world was shattered in a freak accident. Now his remaining glass magic is mixed with lightning, and Tris must teach him to control it (if she can teach him to control his temper first). But there's more at stake than Keth's education. With his strange magic,...
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
| Author | Ross Russell |
| ISBN | 0306806797 |
"The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of the entire jazz life in this society."--Ralph Gleason
"Inspired by great affection and dedication,...
| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 0316610690 |
The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...
| Author | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316403830 |
Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter...
Informative and interesting, Lee Allen Peterson's A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America is a reference guide that has been conceptualised for one main purpose and therefore specifically and only describes the many edible wild plant species of Eastern and Central...
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants
| Author | Steve Brill |
| ISBN | 0688114253 |
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health. It includes information on common plants such as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers...
Incredible Wild Edibles: 36 Plants That Can Change Your Life
| Author | Samuel Thayer |
| ISBN | 0976626624 |
Incredible Wild Edibles covers 36 of the best edible wild plants in North America: fruits, berries, nuts, shoots, leafy greens, root vegetables, culinary herbs, teas, and syrups that boast exceptional flavor and nutrition. The plants chosen represent every habitat and every region in North America,...
How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook
| Author | Susan Leigh Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0811735680 |
A one-of-a-kind, art-filled how-to guide geared to wildlife students and naturalists, based on the author's college course. Pages from actual field notebooks clearly illustrate what works and why. Hints and advice for outdoorspeople with even limited artistic skills. For nature-lovers, birders,...
Self-Defense: Nerve Centers & Pressure Points for Karate, Jujitsu and Atemi-Waza
| Author | Bruce Tegner |
| ISBN | 0874070295 |
Stories about mysterious techniques involving nerve centers and pressure have been around for centuries. Here, Bruce Tegner evaluates the myth and legend behind the so-called "deadly" blows and the "secrets" of the fighting arts in terms of acceptable scientific evidence and the reality of human...
| Author | A.G. Pasquella |
| ISBN | 1459742281 |
Honourable ex-con Jack Palace struggles to repay an unstable criminal who saved his life.
What does a man do when he gets out of jail? Jack Palace hits the streets, plunging back into a violent world of crime and corruption. Jack wants out, but first he must repay his debt to Tommy, the...
| Author | James Ellroy |
| ISBN | 1400032873 |
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of...
What We Know about Climate Change
| Author | Kerry Emanuel |
| ISBN | 0262050897 |
Kerry Emanuel is one of the world's foremost experts on hurricanes, a professor of atmospheric science in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT. In this *excellent* little book he describes the basics of our scientific knowledge in the area of climate change, without...
| Author | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316403962 |
Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended Josie Eddleman's life. Nevermind that he was the last one to see her alive.
But in a town filled with the likes of an amoral tabloid reporter known only as The...
| Author | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316404020 |
Britton Rainstar never knew he could love a woman as deeply as he does Manuela Aloe and be so terrified of her at the same time. It's not just that he thinks she's out of his league. It's more that the longer he stays with her, the closer to death he seems to come. A vicious dog is somehow let loose in his hotel...
KGB Alpha Team Training Manual: How the Soviets Trained for Personal Combat, Assassination, and Subversion
| Author | Paladin Press |
| ISBN | 0873647068 |
Book publishing firm founded in 1970 by Peder Lund and Robert K. Brown.
The company publishes non-fiction books and videos covering a wide range of specialty topics,including (but not limited to) personal and financial freedom, survivalism and preparedness, firearms and shooting, various...
Combat Kick Boxing - A Framework for Success
| Author | Pat O'Keeffe |
| ISBN | 1840241950 |
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Mastering Muay Thai Kick-Boxing: MMA-Proven Techniques
| Author | Joe E. Harvey |
| ISBN | 0804840059 |
In Mastering Muay Thai Kick-Boxing, author Joe Harvey, an experienced martial artist with close to 20 years of active training and teaching, covers Muay Thai stances and such moves as:
Upper body strikes and defenses
Lower body strikes and defenses
Plum/clinch tie up defenses
Stalking...
How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
| Author | Tristan Gooley |
| ISBN | 1615194290 |
“Equal parts alfresco inspiration, interesting factoids, how-to instructions and self-help advice.”—The Wall Street Journal
When most of us go for a walk, a single sense—sight—tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times–bestselling author and expert navigator...
American Wildlife and Plants: A Guide to Wildlife Food Habits
| Author | Alexander C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0486207935 |
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