Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
By: John Gierach
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Housto…
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1. The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing
By: Thomas McGuane
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Thomas McGuane's obsession with fish has taken him from the river in his backyard to the holiest wa… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- essays
- sports
- outdoors
- nature
2. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
By: Paul Kingsnorth , Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridle… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
"We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
"Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
3. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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- nature
- adventure
"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
4. Good Life Wasted: Or Twenty Years As A Fishing Guide
By: Dave Ames
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Told through the eyes of a longtime Montana fishing guide and itinerant fishing bum, A Good Life Wa… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more
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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- nature
- adventure
6. The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
By: Craig Childs
3.72
Format: None pages,
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating t… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
7. Act of Treason (Mitch Rapp, #9)
By: Vince Flynn
4.04
Format: 288 pages,
CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our n… read more
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8. Night of the Fox (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter #1)
By: Jack Higgins
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Ch… read more
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- adventure
9. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
10. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more
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11. Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp, #11)
By: Vince Flynn
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
Now, with Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protegee Mik… read more
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12. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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13. Centennial
By: James A. Michener
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener's magnificent saga of the Westis… read more
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14. Big Two-Hearted River
By: Ernest Hemingway
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Audio CD
Big two-hearted river -- A way you'll never be -- In another country. read more
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15. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
By: Peter Zeihan
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER… read more
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16. An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
By: None
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow… read more
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17. Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon
By: Monte Burke
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Funny, wistful, and wonderful." --Carl Hiaasen "You will love this book." --Michael Keaton "T… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
- outdoors
- adventure
18. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
By: Bob Drury
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall … read more
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- nonfiction
- adventure
19. First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)
By: Craig Johnson
4.37
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of chara… read more
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- audiobook
20. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
21. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
22. The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life
By: David Coggins
4.38
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An “excellent” ( The New York Times ) modern tribute to an ageless pastime, and a practical guide t… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- outdoors
- nature
23. Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
By: John N. Maclean
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It comes a gorgeous chronicle of… read more
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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
24. Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
By: John Gierach
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Housto… read more
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- adventure
- nonfiction
- essays
- sports
- outdoors
- nature
- audiobook
25. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)
By: Patrick Taylor
4.08
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more
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- adventure
- nonfiction
- sports
- outdoors
- audiobook
26. The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
By: Jim Harrison
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search fo… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- audiobook
27. The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life
By: David Coggins
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist wades into deeper waters and shares new wisd… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
28. Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman
By: Dylan Tomine
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Christmas Island. The Russian Arctic. Argentine Patagonia. Japan. Cuba. British Columbia. Dylan … read more
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- nature
29. Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
By: Dean King
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
30. Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound
By: David M. Buerge
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This is the first thorough account of Chief Seattle and his times--the story of a half-century of t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life
By: David Coggins
3.91
Format: None pages, None
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