2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Wilderness Act the landmark piece of legislation to set aside and protect pristine parts of the American landscape. This anniversary edition of Wilderness Ethics should help put the many issues surrounding wilderness in focus."

It is assumed that every inch of the world has been explored and charted; that there is nowhere new to go. But perhaps it is the everyday places around us--the cities we live in--that need to be rediscovered. What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? "Explore Everything" reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure.
Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the boundaries of conventional life. He calls it 'place hacking' the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban space to make them realms of opportunity.
"Explore Everything "is an account of the author's escapades with the London Consolidation Crew, an urban exploration collective.
The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first century metropolis.

* Mit Pressluft auf mehr als 120 Meter Tiefe, die Todeszone / Abenteuer pur * Der freie Fall Unterwasser auf uber 80 Meter Tiefe * Unbekannte Gefahr beim Nachttauchen * Stromungstauchen und die extremen Gefahren * Absturzen beim Trockentauchen Unterwasser * Mehr Adrenalin beim Wracktauchen * Eistauchen ohne geschlossene Eisdecke In diesem Buch werden oben genannte, extreme Tauchgange beschrieben und auf die jeweiligen, oft unbekannten, unterschatzten, kaum jemals veroffentlichten Gefahren im Einzelnen hingewiesen sowie daruber hinaus im Detail (psychisch, physikalisch und medizinisch) allgemein verstandlich erklart. Auch ohne Fachkenntnisse ist das Buch eine spannende Lekture.

This is your guide to buying an RV, living on the road, and loving every minute of it. "The Complete RV Handbook" combines RVing fundamentals with road-tested wisdom for part-time and full-time RVers. After living on the road for eight years and interviewing hundreds of other veteran road warriors, full-timer Jayne Freeman is uniquely qualified to help you get the most pleasure from your RV with the fewest hassles. She helps you select the home-on-wheels that's right for you; plan, load, and stock for excursions of varying durations; and arrange to be away for a week or a year.Jayne offers hundreds of tips for dealing with unexpected situations, such as breakdowns and severe weather, border crossings, health and safety issues, and more. This must-have guide includes the advice and know-how you need to: get the best deal on the RV of your dreams; travel with safety and confidence; keep your RV in top shape, inside and out; master the art of camping in comfort and style; get the best TV, phone, mail, and Internet service on the road; select a home base to optimize your taxes, licensing, and registration; prepare for and deal with emergencies; and, much more.

Discover the joys of desert camping, hiking, and travel

Harsh, yet hauntingly beautiful; arid, yet teeming with life; inhospitable, yet profoundly peaceful--the earths deserts beckon the poet and the backpacker, the artist and the adventurer. If youre heading into the desert, however, you should know what to expect, what to look for, and how to withstand extreme desert conditions.

Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, The Ultimate Desert Handbook is your complete guide to hiking, exploration, and survival in fascinating but unforgiving desert terrain. It gives you the crucial information you need to make the most of any desert sojourn, including detailed descriptions of North American deserts, their plants and wildlife, and their distinctive geological features. Youll also find the most comprehensive tutorial on desert navigation ever published and expert advice on equipment, safety, and first-aid techniques. Youll learn how to:

• Select the perfect desert campsite
  
• Manage your water supply
  
• Share the landscape with desert wildlife
  
• Maintain vehicles in desert conditions
  
• Protect yourself with the right clothing and equipment
  
• Be at home in a vast and elemental terrain
  

This guide is considered a classic of mountaineering literature.

In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger.   Parkour’s modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour’s dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as “traceurs� or “freerunners�) reject a “daredevil� label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety—rather than a “pushing the edge� ethos normally associated with extreme sports.    

This book will help you realize your dreams of hiking among the world's highest peaks and most scenic canyons, discovering wilderness far from the clamor of civilization, encountering rare birds and animals, glorying in sunsets over glacier-clad ranges, and feeling the joy and achievement of hiking some of the world's most spectacular trails. Peter Potterfield has selected the great hikes of the world from personal experience, having hiked and photographed hundreds of trails to arrive at this selection. The adventures described range from weekend overnights to four-day hut trips to epic journeys that take a few weeks out and back. None requires technical mountaineering skill. Features include details on trail conditions, levels of difficulty, best seasons, approach strategies, hazards, and maps. Hikes include: John Muir Trail, California; Wonder Lake to McGonagall Pass, Alaska; Tour de la Vanoise, French Alps; Kungsleden, Swedish Lapland; K2 Base Camp; Grand Canyon rim to rim; Mount Kilimanjaro; Cerro Fitz Roy, Argentina; and Shackleton's Crossing, South Georgia.

For nearly two decades, Medicine for the Outdoors has been the book to which outdoor travelers have turned for expert explanations and clear, understandable guidance on treating just about any medical problem imaginable. Written by Paul Auerbach, one of the country's foremost authorities on wilderness and emergency medicine, this thoroughly expanded and updated Fourth Edition will continue this remarkable book's best-selling tradition.

Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers - and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Mountainman Crafts and Skills is the essential illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival. How to make your own clothing, shelter, and equipment are all covered in step-by-step detail-through illustrations by the author himself. Learn how to make and use hunting tools and utensils, wild game traps, mountainman clothing, powder flasks and horns, tents, deer-horn jewelry, and much more. Wilderness survival skills are also covered, with instruction geared at both novice and expert. Learn how to trap wild game, tan hides, shoot with black powder, make a fire, and cook a hearty meal with only the barest of essentials.

Long recognized as one of the seminal volumes on the fundamentals of map, compass, and altimeter route finding, The Outward Bound Map & Compass Handbook has been expanded and updated to include the latest information on Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. This concise and authoritative guide features practical advice on choosing the right compass, reading and using topographical maps, using an altimeter to pinpoint your position, and mastering the GPS - the device revolutionizing backcountry navigation. Randall helps you steer clear of the most common route finding errors, and passes on an array of tips drawn from his rich store of experience in the wild. Whether you''re looking for a beginner course on outdoor navigation or want to sharpen your skills before heading back into the wilderness, The Outward Bound Map & Compass Handbook will prove invaluable. (51/2 X 8 1/8, 112 pages, diagrams)

This book is filled with practical advice and guidance for seniors. From boots and socks to the latest in self-supporting tents, the book includes sections on skiing, boating, hiking, outdoor photography and much more.

"The All-Star Bathroom Sampler" is a one-of-a-kind treasure-trove of eminently entertaining facts, stories, trivia, and anecdotes for sports fans everywhere--regardless of geographic location, team loyalties, or sports preferences. Insider-author Max Brallier culls the best of the best from the great reservoir of sports information and writing out there in the world's ether. These are absorbing nuggets of reading that, while more filling than simple trivia, don't seek to recreate in miniature the experience that "Sports Illustrated" and the "New Yorker" articles provide--namely, an unintended nap on the can. "The All-Star Bathroom Sampler" can either be enjoyed from start to finish or picked up and read in small, satisfying snippets. It will be treasured--whether in the bathroom, on the couch, or in bed--by sports fans everywhere, readers of trivia, and collectors of amusing and entertaining sports stories, anecdotes, and trivia. - Weird sports
- Athletes and the law
- Yogiisms and other quotes
- Jokes
- Biographies
- Records
- History
- Team profiles
- Sports and politics
- Sports & sex
- Rules

This is the do-it-yourself book for anyone who enjoys working with wood. For the hunter there are quick, easy-to-build-and-move tree stands, a workbench for gunsmithing or setting up your bow, a freestanding gun rack, an ammo box, a freestanding fishing-rod rack, and much more. There are projects for the home, too, including a pool or garden gate, shed, country mailbox, picture frame, firewood storage box, and other useful projects.
You don't have to be a professional carpenter or designer to carry out these plans. All you need are some basic skills, a decent set of tools, and the desire to expand your woodworking skills to your outdoorsman's lifestyle.
"Authors Leo Somma and Peter Fiduccia know how to build things correctly,
and it shows, on every page of this book. The tool and material lists,
the cutting schedule for each project, the easy-to-follow diagrams--
it's all right there. Follow the instructions and you'll end up with the tree stand,
gun rack, or shed that you see in the photos. You can also change the designs
without great difficulty and adapt them to your situation."
--Jay Cassell, Deputy Editor, Field & Stream

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties presents lively, step-by-step tutelage on building all types of temporary and long-term accommodations from both natural and man-made materials. Originally published in 1914, this practical classic is as essential a guide for today's modern homesteader as it was at the turn of the century. Here are instructions for dozens of worry-free shelters including a sod house for the lawn, a treetop house, over-water camps, a bog ken, and much more. Satisfying the builder's need for the creature comforts of home, it also provides tips on how to build hearths and chimneys, notched log ladders, and even how to rig a front door with a secret lock. Illustrated throughout with a bounty of helpful line drawings, Shelters, Shacks and Shanties harkens back to the can-do spirit of the American frontier that still thrives today. (41/2 X 71/4, 264 pages, illustrations)

From Assateague to Swallow Falls, from the Susquehanna River Trail to Rock Creek Park, Maryland offers residents and visitors a wealth of recreational opportunities in a remarkable variety of natural settings. Bryan MacKay's Hiking, Cycling, and Canoeing in Maryland has been the essential guide to outdoor recreation in the state's parks, preserves, and waterways for more than a decade.

A lifelong resident of Maryland, MacKay combines in this book his love of outdoor activities and his knowledge of the places, plants, and animals of the region. For each of the 23 walks, 16 bicycle rides, and 19 canoe trips, he includes general information on the natural history and ecology of the site and a short essay that focuses on a topic of special interest -- a particular plant or animal or an important conservation issue. Along with maps and detailed directions for each outing, the book also features beautiful pen-and-ink drawings by Sandy Glover of the Irvine Natural Science Center.

The second edition provides updated information on the Capital Crescent Trail, North Point State Park (Black Marsh), Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area, and the Susquehanna River Trail, as well as current contact information for all parks and preserves.

In this environmental call to action, Laura and Guy Waterman look beyond preserving the ecology of the backcountry to focus on what they call its spiritual dimension--its fragile, untamed wildness. "Without some management, wildness cannot survive the number of people who seek to enjoy it," they write. "But with too much management, or the wrong kind, we can destroy the spiritual component of wildness in our zeal to preserve its physical side." Trailside huts and lodges, large groups seeking "wilderness experiences," federal and state regulations, and technology such as radios, cell phones, global positioning devices, and emergency helicopters, all have an impact on our experience. With humor and insight, the Watermans explore these difficult wilderness management issues. They ask us to evaluate the impact that even "environmentally conscious" values have on the wilderness experience, and to ask the question: What are we trying to preserve?

This diary brings together quotations and reflections by some of the most inspiring and important of radical thinkers throughout the course of history. While Christian thinkers predominate here, the diary includes readings by those who are not in the Christian tradition but whose ideas in one way or another have influenced or have had an important bearing on theology or on Christian life and witness. Also included are twelve short essays on the important subjects of the early church; early Christian radicalism; Christian socialism; trades unions' spirituality; liberation theology; black theology; feminist theology; black women's theology; body theology; green theology; Jubilee; and truth and reconciliation. A comprehensive directory is appended at the end of the book of notable radical organizations, with addresses, contact numbers and websites included.

For almost thirty years, Merrill Gilfillan has written outdoor columns devoted primarily to describing and creating moods about the world of nature. These columns are informed by a rural background and field notes from more than sixty years of outdoor experience. In Gilfillan's words, "Observation is more of the mind than of vision; our attitude is the secret of original observation. I choose the subjective approach to outdoor enjoyment. I did this after training in zoology and twenty years of field work as a wildlife biologist....We should learn to seek our own original 'view' of what we observe....The scientific method is necessary to gain facts, but the manner in which one experiences the facts is what will determine their final value to the individual and, perhaps, to society." Moods of the Ohio Moons is the product of this subjective method of observation, balanced with scientific knowledge and intended to encourage readers to explore their own individual appreciation and understanding of nature. Twelve essays, one for each month, relate incidents and events--weather, diagnostic events, vegetation and wildlife, agriculture, trends of land use, and the wild harvest--that contribute to the mood of the time. As Gilfillan demonstrates, each month has its mood established primarily by nature and only secondarily by humans.