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"The author has devoted a lifetime to learning and mastering the
ways of the wilderness. . . . His concepts have been
proven by the more than 10,000 students..." —BooklistÂ
Newly updated to include color photos throughout, this timeless
survival guide is refreshed to appeal to new
outdoors enthusiasts  Outdoor Survival
Skills has taught generations of wilderness adventurers how
to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead
drawing on knowledge of the land and carefully tested techniques,
many of them ancient, for finding or creating shelter, fire, tools,
water, and plant and animal foods.  Anecdotes from the
author's lifetime of experience provide thrilling examples of the
skills and attitudes that ensure survival outdoors. Â
In this newest edition, updated text is accompanied by color photos
to help both veteran and novice outdoor explorers embrace their
survival skills. Â
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It
to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One
editor, so the story goes, replied, "It has trees in it." Forty
years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great
American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the
most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a
long life of often surprising rapture for fly fishing, for the
woods and their people, and for the interlocked beauty of life and
art A River Runs through It has over the decades established itself
as a classic of the American West. This new edition will introduce
a fresh audience to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated
emotional insights. Elegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It
includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, whose film adaptation of
River turns twenty-five in 2017. Based on Maclean's own experiences
as a young man, the two novellas and short story it contains are
set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a
world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but
also one rich in the pleasures of fly fishing, logging, cribbage,
and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales
express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for
the earth as it goes by." Though he grew up in the first decades of
the twentieth century in the western Rockies working summers in
logging camps and for the US Forest Service and cultivating a
lifelong passion for the dry fly it was only at the age of seventy,
as a retired English professor, that Norman Maclean discovered what
he was meant to do: write. Moving and profound, A River Runs
through It honors the literary legacy of a man who improbably gave
voice to an essential corner of the American soul. "I am haunted by
waters," Maclean writes at the close of A River Runs through It.
So, now, are we all.
"The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone's greatest and
most famous wolves." -Washington Post "[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a
goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and
clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings." -Marc
Bekoff, Psychology Today Yellowstone National Park was once home to
an abundance of wild wolves-but park rangers killed the last of
their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them
back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. This is
the incredible true story of one of those wolves. Wolf 8 struggles
at first-he is smaller than the other pups, and often bullied-but
soon he bonds with an alpha female whose mate was shot. An
unusually young alpha male, barely a teenager in human years, Wolf
8 rises to the occasion, hunting skillfully, and even defending his
family from the wolf who killed his father. But soon he faces a new
opponent: his adopted son, who mates with a violent alpha female.
Can Wolf 8 protect his valley without harming his protege? Authored
by a renowned wolf researcher and gifted storyteller, The Rise of
Wolf 8 marks the beginning of The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone
series, which will transform our view of wolves forever.
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