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Basic Nature GuidesHigh Sierras The Sierra Club's Naturalist's Guide to the Sierra Nevada touches every aspect of the Natural History of the Sierras. If you could only pick one book from all of the nature guides, this would be your best choice. |
A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to The Sierra Nevada, by Stephen Whitney, Sierra Club Books, SF, 1979. Classic Reference. Birds of North America, National Geographic Society, 1995. Classic Reference. A Field Guide to Western Birds, Peterson, National Audubon Society, Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Classic Reference. |
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Animal Tracks of Northern California, Chris Stall, The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1989. Small Handbook. Flowers, Zim & Martin, Golden Press, NY, 1950. Small general handbook. The Observer's Sky Atlas, E. Karkoschka, Springer-verlag, Berlin, 1990. Handbook, Best of Breed. |
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The Tahoe to Yosemite Trail, Thomas Winnett, Wilderness Press, Berkeley, 1989. The Pacific Crest Trail, Vol 1: California, Schaffer et al, Wilderness Press, Berkeley, 1977. |
Trail GuidesThe classic High Sierras trail guides are the Winnett and Schaffer books published by Wilderness Press. |
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Sierra North, Winnet et al, Wilderness Press, Berkeley, 1993. Sierra South, Winnet et al, Wilderness Press, Berkeley, 1994. Starr's Guide, (1934), Walter Starr, Jr., Sierra Club, SF, 11th ed., 1970. |
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Guides, safetyBasic and advanced information on backcountry safety. |
Accidents in North American Mountaineering, Annual, American Alpine Club, Golden, Co. Reports on backcountry accidents, rescues, and analysis. Other's mistakes will keep you sharp. Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, Climbing Committee of The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1979. NOLS Wilderness First Aid, Tod Schimelpfenig and Linda Lindsey, NOLS and Stackpole Books, Lander, Wyoming, 1991. |
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My Snow Skills Book, Lauren! Sierra Club Guide to Practical Meteorology, Weathering The Wilderness, William Reifsnyder, Sierra Club Books, SF, 1980. |
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Dynamics of Fitness, A Practical Approach, G. McGlynn, Brown & Benchmark, Madison, 1993. College PE Text: a classic. The Sports Medicine Book, Mirkin & Hoffman, Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1978. |
Guides, Fitness |
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Adventure, history classicsFrom Twain to London, Shackelton vs Scott vs Admundson, to our generation's Krakauer vs. Boukreev, (bless his badass soul!) wilderness literture is a rich field. May this sample open you up to new vistas of literary and physical exploration.
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Roughing It, Mark Twain, 1872, Signet, NY, 1962. Twain's Tales of the West between 1861-1867. Lake Tahoe, 1861 Mountains of California, 1894, John Muir, Penguin, NY, 1984. Best Short Stories of Jack London, Fawcet, 1962. Classic London Shorts: To build a Fire & Love of Life. Farthest North, 1897, Nansen, Modern, NY, 1999. |
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This Accursed Land, Bickel, Macmillian, Sydney, 1977. Heart of the Antarctic, 1909, and South, 1919, Shackleton, Signet, 1999 &2000. Classics. Shackleton's Forgotton Men, Bickel, adrenaline classics, NY, 2001. The Last Place on Earth, Roland Huntford, Random House, 1999. Exceptional account of the two leading explorers of the early 20th cen., Admundson and Scott. Epic, ed. by Clint Willis, adrenaline, NY, 1997. Excerpts from the modern classics of mountain climbing. Annapurna (1952), Herzog, Lyons Press, NY, 1997. Everest: The West Ridge, Hornbein, Geo. Allen & Unwin, London, 1971. A window into Himalayan climbing before Tibet and Nepal were trashed by "modernity." The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev, St. Martin's, 2002. |
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