The View From Rat Lake
By: John Gierach
4.34
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th…
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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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- adventure
- nonfiction
- sports
- outdoors
- nature
2. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
By: None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans h… read more
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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- nature
- adventure
"This country makes a man younger than his birthdays."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been."-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
"I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes…"-None, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
3. Round River
By: Aldo Leopold
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
To those who know the grace of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this posthumous col… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
4. Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more
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5. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes"-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
6. Down the River
By: Edward Abbey
3.91
Format: 160 pages,
"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon co… read more
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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- nature
- adventure
7. 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
8. The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men
By: Harry Middleton , Russell Chatham
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the … read more
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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- nature
9. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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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. Sundog
By: Jim Harrison
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Recovering from a fall down the face of a three-hundred-foot dam in South American, Robert Corvus S… read more
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12. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
By: Candice Millard
4.24
Format: None pages,
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more
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13. 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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14. The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing
By: None
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Two highly respected outdoor journalists, Kirk Deeter of Field & Streamand Charlie Meyers of the De… read more
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15. All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
4.00
Format: None pages,
"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --Associated Pre… read more
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16. The Last Ranger
By:
None
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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- nature
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. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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- nonfiction
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
19. 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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- sports
- nonfiction
- nature
20. The Guide
By: Peter Heller
3.62
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, es… read more
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- nature
- adventure
21. 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
22. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
23. Spring Creek
By: Nick Lyons
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For years, Nick Lyons has been one of the most popular fishing writers in America. Now, in Spring C… read more
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- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
24. The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors
By: Paul Schullery
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The Fishing Life is an entertaining anthology of fishing anecdotes and well-researched articles fro… read more
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25. The View From Rat Lake
By: John Gierach
4.34
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by th… read more
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26. How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
By: Jeremy Wade
4.13
Format: 1 pages, Audio CD
The star of the Discovery Channel's River Monsters and author of the bestselling River Monsters sha… read more
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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- nature
"Most big freshwater fish, in most parts of the world, have all but disappeared from most places where they used to live. As with arapaima, the main reason is over-harvesting, but there are other fact…"-Jeremy Wade, How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
27. Fishless Days, Angling Nights: Classic Fly-Fishing Stores, Reminiscences, and Lore
By: Sparse Grey Hackle
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A rich and varied treasury of superb stories and articles by the acknowledged "Dean of American Fly… read more
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28. Every Day Was Special: A Fly Fisher's Lifelong Passion
By: William G. Tapply
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
"It’s been a lifelong, ever-expanding journey, with many big ?sh and faraway waters and dramatic mo… read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Legendary Neversink: A Treasury of the Best Writing about One of America's Great Trout Rivers
By: Justin Askins
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Neversink River in New York’s Catskill Mountains, with its plunges and gorges, is one of the wo… read more
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30. Astream: American Writers on Fly Fishing
By: Robert DeMott
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers… read more
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31. On the Big Blackfoot
By: Norman Maclean
3.70
Format: 60 pages, Audio CD
On the Big Blackfoot is Norman Maclean's memoir about his Montana youth that inspired his beloved s… read more
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