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The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging
Brion Toss
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Combining and updating the renowned Rigger's Apprentice and Rigger's Locker , meets the changing face of modern materials and technology while remaining true to rigging's best traditional principles and practices. It's much more than a knot...
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Holy the Firm
Annie Dillard
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death,...
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The Sense of Wonder
Rachel Carson
HarperCollins
HarperCollins
Not long before she died in 1964, the noted environmental writer Rachel Carson wrote an essay for Woman's Home Companion magazine called "Helping Your Child to Wonder." In that essay--reprinted here, with photographs of natural subjects by Nick...
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Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness
Robert Kull
New World Library
New World Library
Years after losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle crash, Robert Kull traveled to a remote island in Patagonia’s coastal wilderness with supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and...
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The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
Craig Childs
Back Bay Books
Back Bay Books
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...
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Sailboat Electrics Simplified
Don Casey
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Don't Be Baffled by Your Electrical System--Handle Repairs and Improvements with Ease With clear illustrations and simple explanations, Don Casey shows you exactly how to install wiring . . . make good, safe connections . . . match your battery...
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The Accidental Explorer
Sherry Simpson
Sasquatch Books
Sasquatch Books
In these acclaimed essays, Sherry Simpson recounts her experiences as an ordinary woman confronting the vast expanses of water and wilderness of her home state. Her adventures include a harrowing bear encounter and a near-death experience falling...
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Evening Thoughts
Thomas Berry
Sierra Club Books
Sierra Club Books
Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of noted cultural historian Thomas Berry. His teaching and writings have inspired a generation’s thinking about humankind’s place in the Earth Community and the...
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Out There
Ted Kerasote
Voyageur Press
Voyageur Press
WINNER, 2004 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD! (Outdoor Literature) Who hasnt wanted to get away from cell phones, e-mail, roads, and traffic? And what better place to escape our wired world than the far northwestern corner of Canadas Northwest...
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Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau (Everyman's Library)
Henry David Thoreau
Everymans Library
Everymans Library
In 1845 Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and lived in a cabin on it for two years, two months, and two days. The experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen...
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