Outdoor Reads

Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His message is to connect - however we can and to whatever draws us in.

A Sunday Times 'Must Read' book 'This study of rivers, lakes, puddles and seas brims over with astonishing facts...His observational skills can be breathtaking' The Sunday Times A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How To Read...

She’s not planning to stay. He’s determined to change her mind. Neely I don’t stay anywhere long. Working as a campground host means I drift from town to town, never putting down roots. Whispering Pines is supposed to be just another stop. Then I meet Tate Benton. The town’s park ranger is steady, watchful, and entirely too interested in me. What starts as routine check-ins turns into something deeper, something harder to ignore. Because Tate doesn’t believe in temporary. And the longer I stay, the more it feels like he’s not just protecting me from the wilderness… He’s ...

A must-have audiobook for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you. From wild swimming in Sussex to wayfinding off Oman, via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Tristan Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of ponds, puddles, rivers, oceans and more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us.

It all started innocently enough, but who could imagine that just one brief error in judgment, could change an average woman into becoming an insatiable exhibitionist virtually overnight? Ashley was your typical housewife. A true soccer mom until her two boys became older and went off to college. Early in her marriage with husband Chris, she was adventurous and willing to try new things. That was particularly true when it came to their lovemaking. A more than willing partner in those days, she would go along with whatever her husband desired. She found it exciting to surrender herself to ...

He broke his isolation to save them. Now, the river isn't the only thing hunting them. Seven years ago, a devastating river tragedy destroyed Jonah Reed’s career and drove him into absolute exile. Living in a plywood shack along the forbidden waters of the Blackwater Run, he maintains a fragile, unspoken pact with the gorge’s most terrifying secret: an eight-foot-tall apex guardian that tolerates Jonah’s presence only because he leaves no trace. But on the Fourth of July weekend, the outside world crashes through the canopy. When Tara Bell and her two children stumble into his camp, ...

Learn how to read the clues and signs of nature with this eye-opening and enthralling guide from Sunday Times-bestselling author Tristan Gooley, pioneer in the art of natural navigation 'It's like being given some sort of magical text . . . eye-opening and invaluable.' -INDIA KNIGHT The ultimate...

The storm was supposed to be the deadliest thing in the swamp. It isn't. Hurricane Nadine is tearing through the Louisiana coast, drowning everything in its path. Trapped inside the high-security Black Cypress Preserve, Wildlife Officer Raina Holt and a handful of survivors are just trying to outlast the rising floodwaters. But the storm has breached the inner compound, and the facility’s most classified assets are loose. Three genetically resurrected Smilodon fatalis—sabertooth cats that hunt with calculating, prehistoric precision. With the power dead and the water rising, Raina must ...

What did the basketball player wear to her school dance? A hoop skirt! These silly sports jokes are sure to be a hit.

A peaceful mountain getaway. A relentless predator. Nowhere to run. Former conservation officer Daniel Rourke wanted a quiet weekend in the Catskills to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Sophie. But Pine Ridge harbors a fatal secret: for years, the staff has been illegally feeding the local wildlife to entertain the tourists. Now, a massive, heavily scarred apex predator has lost all fear of humans—and it has learned that the grounds are its personal hunting territory. When a torrential storm washes out the only access road and severs the power, four hundred vacationers are trapped in ...

Learn how to read the clues and signs of trees with this eye-opening and enthralling guide from Sunday Times-bestselling author Tristan Gooley 'I could write a book about this book. After the first five pages I knew my forest hiking was already permanently changed. After five more I began...

Can you tell the time without looking at a clock?For most of human history, people knew the time by reading the world around them. They watched the movement of the sun, the length of shadows, the phases of the moon, the position of the stars, the behaviour of birds and animals, the rhythm of tides, the changing seasons, and the quiet signals of the human body.What Time Is It? Tell the Time Without Clocks is a practical and fascinating guide to the lost art of natural timekeeping.Written in a clear, accessible style, this book shows how time can be understood without watches, phones, alarms,...

Rick Phillips teaches people to juggle in the Atlanta Georgia area. Phillips uses methods that can make you a juggler within one hour - just like the people he teaches in person. However, you can read that method in this SHORT book that strips down the entire juggling experience to the very elementary basics. This EBook also brings to readers awareness the real research that shows that people who learn to juggle actually grow new brain tissue - waking up the brain - and other health benefits of juggling. Rick also shows that simply being a `regular' juggler - can present opportunities to ...

This collection contains the first five, full-length, Trophy Seeker Destination, short stories. Four of the five tales are about Lake Texoma, the Striped Bass Capitol of the World, which is my home base for all things fishing. The fifth story is a free BONUS tale, about fishing for big Black Drum in Galveston, Texas. These five stories are included in Lake Texoma Striper Tales Collection 01 - #BigFishThursday - Tex-Ocean - The Catfish Curse - Big Black Drum - The Big One I'm Captain Mike, I run a fishing guide service on Lake Texoma called BigFishTexoma.com. I am the Defending Champion of ...

Fear. Anguish. Heartbreak. Selfless love. Ultimate sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes that's all there is. Adam Manning arrives at the crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems. Neither is he. If you enjoy clean mystery romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with love, hope, family, new and old friendships, and a mystery to keep you guessing, Stay With Me is the series collection for you. This is Book Seven of the eight-part Stay With Me mystery romance novella series. Book 7 of 8.

I never wanted to come home to Lakeside. Despite my best efforts, fate brought me home from the big city. When I got there, I immediately went to check in on my best and oldest friend James. He was always a quiet, nerdy guy, so imagine my surprise when I found him working on a classic car with a bronzed and muscular body. He hated the fact that I had left town--and him--so long ago. To make it up to him, I agreed to go out on the lake in his tiny dinghy to fish for trout. A funny thing happened out there: I started to fall in love with Lakeside again. The pleasant, quiet rhythms of the town...

Seth Callahan has led an interesting life. One way it’s interesting is by being born in 1946, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Another way is by spending time in two foreign countries. Yet another way is his many experiences with women, what he describes as his “category five hurricanes.” Now, though, over fifty years after he married the woman of his dreams, she has made a request he can’t deny. She’s dying of cancer, and to ease the pain of losing her when she’s gone, she wants him to write the intriguing story of his life, including the astounding way they eventually met and ...

Adventure. Laughter. Faith. And the greatest light show on Earth. When Ricky, Ray, and Rusty board a small vessel bound for the Arctic, they expect cold winds and big waves. What they don’t expect is icebergs shaped like “ice monsters,” a walrus chase at dawn, and a fox cub that Rusty wants to adopt. Under Uncle Dean’s adventurous guidance and Aunt Pat’s faith-filled wisdom, the cousins set sail through the icy north, where the aurora borealis paints the night sky in breathtaking color. But the Northern Lights aren’t just beautiful—they open the door to fascinating science ...

Steve and I had been planning the big hike for months. We were headed up the mountain with enough supplies and tents to last a couple of night with our girlfriends. It was going to be the moment that I finally got with Kaitlyn. And then? Then we got lost, or rather Steve got us lost. After we took a strange path, we couldn't find our way back to the girls. We had been friends forever, but I had always been his wingman. When the sun went down, and it started raining, and it got so cold, I had to finally tell Steve that he screwed up. We needed to set the tent down and take shelter. Steve ...

The Outdoor Camping Handbook is especially written for first-time campers who need information and guidance on what to look for and what to expect on their first camping adventure. If you are a first timer, planning your first camping trip can seem like a daunting task, but with the help of this book, you will discover it's easier than you think.