Extreme Outdoor Adventures: Who Survives And Why
ISBN: 9781599212005 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incredible but True Stories of Confronting Death and Emerging VictoriousThe rock climber who cut off his own arm with a penknife. The hiker who fought off a mountain lion. Passengers who survive the crash of a bush plane in Alaska. We read headlines we sometimes find hard to believe, yet there are on record dozens of such events. Here is a collection of tales from everyday people who faced terrible odds, accidents, extreme weather, wild animals, or severe injury, many describing how they entered another state of consciousness an adrenaline high to get away alive. Forget reality TV this is...
Incredible but True Stories of Confronting Death and Emerging VictoriousThe rock climber who cut off his own arm with a penknife. The hiker who fought...
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69,15 zł |
The Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Survival: Skills, Tactics, and Techniques
ISBN: 9781602390508 / Angielski / Miękka / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from dozens of the U.S. Army's official field manuals, editor Jay McCullough has culled a thousand pages of the most useful and curious tidbits for the would-be soldier, historian, movie-maker, writer, or survivalist--including techniques on first aid; survival in the hottest or coldest of climates; finding or building life-saving shelters; surviving nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks; physical and mental fitness, and how to find food and water anywhere, anytime. With hundreds of photographs and illustrations showing everything from edible plants to rare skin diseases of the...
Drawing from dozens of the U.S. Army's official field manuals, editor Jay McCullough has culled a thousand pages of the most useful and curious tidbit...
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105,32 zł |
Inclusive Outdoor Recreation for Persons with Disabilities: Protocols and Activities
ISBN: 9781882883646 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inclusive Outdoor Recreation for Persons with Disabilities is intended for students, consumers, and practitioners in Therapeutic Recreation, Outdoor Recreation, and Special Education. Instructors who teach undergraduate and graduate courses can use this text to teach program design principles. Practitioners can use the information to develop programs, services, protocols, and activities to better serve persons with disabilities in their use of the great outdoors.
Inclusive Outdoor Recreation for Persons with Disabilities is intended for students, consumers, and practitioners in Therapeutic Recreation, Outdoor R...
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196,49 zł |
Handling and Nursing the Game Cock (History of Cockfighting Series)
ISBN: 9781905124374 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HANDLING AND NURSING THE GAME COCK. A COMPREHENSIVE EXPLANATION AND INSTRUCTION ON THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS IN HANDLING AND NURSING GAME COCKS IN BATTLE. VARIOUS INJURIES DESCRIBED AND NURSING EXPLAINED. NATURAL ABILITY OF HANDLER EXPLAINED AS HELPFUL TO SUCCESSFUL COCKER. MANY PRECAUTIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL WINNING OF BATTLES ADVISED. By A.C. Dingwall, Ph.B. Although many "Cocking" titles are available to today's Gamefowl breeders and fanciers, very little has been written on the actual handling of fighting cocks in the pit. The author, with his many years of practical experience, wrote this...
HANDLING AND NURSING THE GAME COCK. A COMPREHENSIVE EXPLANATION AND INSTRUCTION ON THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS IN HANDLING AND NURSING GAME COCKS IN BATT...
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198,51 zł |
Basic Illustrated Knots for the Outdoors
ISBN: 9780762747610 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BASIC ILLUSTRATED KNOTS FOR THE OUTDOORS (Falcon)Cliff JacobsonA full-color manual for every outdoor enthusiastIn full color, this illustrated how-to book covers the top ten most important knots and hitches, twenty-two variations, and four essential splices and lashings. There are right-handed and left-handed instructions and illustrations for tying each knot, plus tips on buying and maintaining ropes and choosing the correct knot for the task at hand. This guide is easy to follow and small enough to carry outdoors.Cliff Jacobson is an outdoors writer and wilderness canoe guide. He is a...
BASIC ILLUSTRATED KNOTS FOR THE OUTDOORS (Falcon)Cliff JacobsonA full-color manual for every outdoor enthusiastIn full color, this illustrated how-to ...
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69,15 zł |
Ways and Secrets of the True Countryman
ISBN: 9781406787474 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in the early 1900s. A fascinating record of some of the more secret ways and knowledge of country folk and the countless simple matters so often overlooked, which make going about the countryside the most delightful and abiding of all pleasures. Contents include: Woodcraft - Signs and Tokens - How to Call Birds and Beasts - Uses of Hazel and Ash - The Gamekeeper - Catching Crayfish and Pike - Dogs - Rat Catchers Secrets - Moles - Gipsy Crafts - Handling Wild Creatures - Roadside Crosses - Finding Feathers - Woodman's Secrets - Eyes That See - Country Sports, and much more.
Originally published in the early 1900s. A fascinating record of some of the more secret ways and knowledge of country folk and the countless simple m...
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193,78 zł |
Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature
ISBN: 9780312358884 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, into a blizzard to search for missing skiers, or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery. Dr. Van Tilburg's work requires a unique combination of emergency medicine, survival skills, agility, and extreme sports. In Mountain Rescue Doctor, Van Tilburg... Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Ra... |
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97,04 zł |
Outdoor Recreation : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415430401 / Angielski / Twarda / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Outdoor Recreation provides students of outdoor recreation, leisure and environmental studies with a comprehensive and informative overview of the field. This is the first student text on the subject to adopt an interdisciplinary approach, and it is richly illustrated with international case-study material and useful pedagogical features throughout Outdoor Recreation provides students of outdoor recreation, leisure and environmental studies with a comprehensive and informative overview of the ... |
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682,74 zł |
Bear Grylls Great Outdoor Adventures: An Extreme Guide to the Best Outdoor Pursuits
ISBN: 9781905026524 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Britain's intrepid survival expert shares his years of experience of the world's most extreme terrain to help enhance your enjoyment of the wilderness, whether you are a weekend camper in search of a little more adventure or a wannabe climber looking to graduate from the climbing wall to real rocks.
Britain's intrepid survival expert shares his years of experience of the world's most extreme terrain to help enhance your enjoyment of the wilderness...
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79,80 zł |
Tracks and Trailcraft: A Fully Illustrated Guide To The Identification Of Animal Tracks In Forest And Field, Barnyard And Backyard, Second Ed
ISBN: 9781599218045 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Long before Scotland Yard or the FBI, Nature fingerprinted her numerous family," writes Ellsworth Jaeger in his remarkable book about a little-known field. "Tracks may take us back to the Earth's beginnings or give us a complete autobiography of a living animal from day to day." Charmingly illustrated throughout, Tracks and Trailcraft presents a wealth of lore. In the crisp, direct style that helped make him a widely read author of classics on Native American lore and camping, Ellsworth Jaeger tells how to read nature's signs written in mud, brush, and even water and sky. It's packed with...
"Long before Scotland Yard or the FBI, Nature fingerprinted her numerous family," writes Ellsworth Jaeger in his remarkable book about a little-known ...
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63,11 zł |
A Parent's Guide to Paintball
ISBN: 9781894953580 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential guide for parents, youth sports organizations, players or anyone seeking solid information about the sport. A PARENT'S GUIDE covers everything from the history of the game to rules of play, equipment and buying guides, essential contact information and advice for parent's mentoring paintball playing youths. Steve Davidson, author of "MAXING: A GUIDE TO WINNING TOURNAMENT PLAY and THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO PAINTBALL brings over two decades of paintball experience to the subject of youth paintball. In A PARENT'S GUIDE, Davidson blends historical anecdotes, amusing stories and practical...
An essential guide for parents, youth sports organizations, players or anyone seeking solid information about the sport. A PARENT'S GUIDE covers every...
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84,21 zł |
Wilderness Survival Handbook: Primitive Skills for Short-Term Survival and Long-Term Comfort
ISBN: 9780071484671 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry Organized around the six essentials of survival (shelter, water, food, fire, comfort and health, and navigation), Wilderness Survival Handbook covers 100 skills and techniques, including preserving fire, building pit shelters, toolmaking, stoneboiling cookery, and trapping and hunting animals with handmade tools and weapons. By mastering these skills, you will be able to survive with few tools or provisions in any wilderness setting--forest, plain, desert, or... An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry Organized around the six essen... |
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101,30 zł |
Outdoor Survival: Skills to Survive and Stay Alive
ISBN: 9780762756520 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Backpacker magazine-branded, and fueled by FalconGuides, Backpacker Magazine's Outdoor Survival brings you essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Learn how to properly preplan for a trip, build a shelter, start a fire, prevent hypo- or hyperthermia, navigate when lost--and, above all, how to avoid the common pitfalls that get you into a survival situation in the first place. The book also covers other important skills, including basic wilderness first-aid. Perfect for pack or pocket, this book breaks down its subject into the...
Backpacker magazine-branded, and fueled by FalconGuides, Backpacker Magazine's Outdoor Survival brings you essential mind gear from the two most respe...
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54,66 zł |
Backpacker Predicting Weather: Forecasting, Planning, and Preparing
ISBN: 9780762756568 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Backpacker Magazine's Weather informs readers about how weather happens, how to predict and recognize weather patterns, identify cloud formations and know what they mean, develop weather awareness from basic meteorological concepts, and more. This handy pocket-sized guide is 96 pages, includes two popouts, and incorporates color photos, charts, and illustrations as needed throughout the interior.
Backpacker Magazine's Weather informs readers about how weather happens, how to predict and recognize weather patterns, identify cloud formations and ...
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63,11 zł |
Wilderness First Responder: How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry
ISBN: 9780762754564 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cutting edge in medical training for wilderness rescue and self care Wilderness First Responder is a comprehensive text for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of backcountry emergencies. It s essential reading for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, search and rescue groups, and anyone who works or plays far from definitive medical care. This invaluable resource includes expert, step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and Signs and Symptoms sidebars designed to help anyone provide immediate care in the wilderness whenever they are more than an hour away from an...
The cutting edge in medical training for wilderness rescue and self care Wilderness First Responder is a comprehensive text for the recognition, treat...
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147,53 zł |
Quality Lesson Plans for Outdoor Education [With CDROM]
ISBN: 9780736071314 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Outdoor activity and adventure is a growing field, but unfortunately, many teachers and recreation leaders and outdoor instructors find themselves without adequate resources to plan and deliver an effective outdoor program. Quality Lesson Plans for Outdoor Education is a flexible, easy-to-use reference that helps physical educators, youth and outdoor recreation leaders, and camp and resort leaders deliver effective outdoor activities. This resource presents the following features: - 21 units with 140 sound lesson plans that are field tested and... Outdoor activity and adventure is a growing field, but unfortunately, many teachers and recreation leaders and outdoor instructors find themselves... |
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298,12 zł |
Jacks Canyon Sport Climbing
ISBN: 9781438287676 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new Jacks Canyon guide includes the Asylum and Lost World areas, contains photographic route topos and is the official and complete Jacks guidebook.
This new Jacks Canyon guide includes the Asylum and Lost World areas, contains photographic route topos and is the official and complete Jacks guidebo...
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97,28 zł |
The Joy of Geocaching: How to Find Health, Happiness and Creative Energy Through a Worldwide Treasure Hunt
ISBN: 9781884956997 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describing the exciting and adventurous world surrounding geocaching--a worldwide hunt in which treasures are located using global positioning system (GPS) devices--this manual offers an understanding and application of the principles and best practices of the sport as well as information on the different types of caches and competitions. With rich illustrations complementing secrets culled from experts, this resource gives participants with basic knowledge new skills for enhancing their experience and provides a visual montage of the different kinds of spots hobbyists can expect to find in...
Describing the exciting and adventurous world surrounding geocaching--a worldwide hunt in which treasures are located using global positioning system ...
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71,55 zł |
Backpacker Backpacking Basics: Planning, Preparing, and Packing
ISBN: 9780762755493 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Backpacker magazine branded and fueled by Falcon-Guides, this book provides essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Perfect for pack or pocket, it breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos, charts, and illustrations are organized with text by an expert in a brief and accessible manner, introducing readers to basic and intermediate skills needed to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors. Backpacker Magazine's Backpacking Basics...
Backpacker magazine branded and fueled by Falcon-Guides, this book provides essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of...
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54,66 zł |
Backpacker Trailside First Aid: Recognition, Treatment, and Prevention
ISBN: 9780762756537 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Backpacker magazine-branded and fueled by Falcon-Guides, this book provides essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-relatedinformation. Perfect for pack or pocket, it breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos, charts, and illustrations are organized with text by an expert in a brief and accessible manner, introducing readers to basic and intermediate skills needed to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors. Backpacker Magazine's Trailside First Aid...
Backpacker magazine-branded and fueled by Falcon-Guides, this book provides essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of...
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54,66 zł |