Surviving the Great Outdoors: Everything You Need to Know Before Heading into the Wild (and How to Get Back in One Piece)
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Surviving the Great Outdoors: Everything You Need to Know Before Heading into the Wild (and How to Get Back in One Piece)
By (Author) Brendan Leonard
Workman Publishing
Artisan Books
1st November 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Outdoor survival skills
Camping
Nature and the natural world: general interest
Reference works
796.5
Physical Properties
Hardback
320
Width 162mm, Height 236mm, Spine 22mm
660g
Description
This easy introduction to outdoor life will ensure that even a novice wont get lost in the woods while finding an activity he loves to do in the great outdoors whether its hiking a 14er or camping on ice. With 400 strategies for engaging in the outdoors, and expert tips and tricks, Surviving the Great Outdoors makes Mother Nature easier to understand than ever before. Brendan Leonard, writer, filmmaker, and outdoor adventurer, shows the reader how rewarding it can be to live life away from the computer and get outside.
From mountain climbing, to skiing, sledding, and sailing, Leonard shows that you dont need to be a risk taker to enjoy the outdoors. And if the reader does find himself at the point of man vs. nature, Leonard shares survival skills from how to bandage a wound and read a topographical map, to how to drive on sand and remove a tick from your skin all organised thematically and written in short takeaway entries with helpful line drawings. Bound in a uniquely rugged (and waterproof!) PVC cover material, Surviving the Great Outdoors is a friendly way into the outdoor lifestyle, whether you're looking to dabble or go all in.
Reviews
Leonards durable tome (seriously, the cover is rubber) is stuffed with so many tips about surviving in the wild, youll be able to leave your smartphone behind.
Entertainment Weekly, Best New Books
Essential knowledge for planning rustic adventures. . . . Encyclopedic.
5280 magazine
Tips for surviving, thriving in, and enjoying the wilderness beyond urban dwellers backyards. With diagrams, lists, and questions answered . . . even the most uninitiated will feel ready to tackle the (truly) great outdoors.
Booklist
Highly giftable.
New York magazine
How much embarrassment I would have been spared had I owned this book when I first started going on adventures. I'm putting it in my glove compartment to prevent future calamity.
Jonah Ogles, Outside magazine
The pragmatic and useful adviceis from real experience, and cuts through the myth and confusion created by marketers and our well-intentioned friends and family. The Great Outdoors is worthy of your shelf spaceeven if your home has limited space, i.e., a camper van.
Mitsu Iwasaki, executive director, Northwest Outward Bound School
Most guide books are specific to an area or already assume a certain level of radness for the potential reader. Surviving the Great Outdoors highlights that being rad is up to the individual to decide and it can be just as great to camp in the backyardand hell tell you howas it is to explore mountains from New Hampshire to the Himalayas.
Stacy Bare, director, Sierra Club Outdoors
Author Bio
Brendan Leonard is an adventure writer whose work has appeared in Outside, Mens Journal, Backpacker, Climbing, Alpinist, National Geographic Adventure, and dozens of other publications. He is the author of Surviving the Great Outdoors. He lives in Denver, Colorado. Find him on Instagram @semi_rad.
