Wilderness And Outdoors

More than simply recounting his two month experience, the author draws from his past experiences to weave together a captivating tale of the wilderness. With somewhat of a "Walden" feel, he shares his thoughts on perceived problems of society, conditions generally worse now 100 years later.

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The story gives the haps and mishaps of a party of Boston gentlemen who spent a summer vacation in the Rangeley Lake region.

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John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist. He played an important role in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay.

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This book tells a story of a man's camping trip. As the story unfolds, the reader will also gain knowledge useful in his own camping trip.

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This book is a narrative of adventure in the southern Appalachians and a study of life about the mountaineers. Inspired by the years Kephart spent among the inhabitants of the remote Hazel Creek region of the Great Smoky Mountains, the book provides one of the earliest realistic portrayals of life in the rural Appalachian Mountains and one of the first serious analysis of Appalachian culture.

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This collection of 15 stories comes from the hand of one of Canada’s most respected early poets. Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943), one of the very few early western writers to have been granted a knighthood, is remembered as the Father of Canadian Poetry. Along with several contemporaries, like Jack London and Beatrix Potter, he also became known as a writer of animal stories. The Backwoodsmen is devoted to this particular genre of storytelling.

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This book focuses on a twentieth-century frontiersman initiated into the secrets of the trail by an old Apache tracker, recounting his tracking adventures in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, the Grand Tetons, the Dakota Badlands, the Grand Canyon, and Death Valley

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This book is a little primer for those who wish to minimise their needs, to waste as little of their lives as may be in the money-making pursuits of the factory and the marketplace, and so to have the maximum of time for the pleasures of real living and independent growth.

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The object of this book is to preach the doctrine of exercise and fresh air. It tells how Mr. and Mrs. Woolf marched from city to city, accompanied by Dolly and Don, their faithful horse and dog .

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The object of this treatise is to set forth in an unbiased account the interior of Peru, and the resources of its vast uncultivated regions, without ignoring the difficulties and obstacles which have to be overcome.

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