outdoor life

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.

Mike Longridge, given a choice between juvenile detention or participation in an outdoor program called Explore, opts for ten months in the Explore classes, but he feels out of place and must decide whether to stick it out or wind up in trouble again.

Relates, through illustrations and simple, rhyming text, a family's day in the woods, including a hike, swimming, and a picnic.

Provides insights into the culture of the Native American peoples and includes suggestions for over one thousand projects, games, and crafts plus advice on woodcrafting, knot-tying, observing wildlife, cooking, canoeing, signaling, and storytelling.

Provides the skills and tactics necessary to survive any kind of perilous situation such as making a shelter, finding and purifying water, and setting traps.

A guide to basic first aid for the wilderness that explains how to build an outdoor first-aid kit, deal with minor injuries, bites, and rashes, handle hot and cold injuries, wrap strains, fractures, and dislocations, and handle emergencies in the wild.

Presents over one hundred projects for groups and individuals designed to help people discover and love the outdoors.

A trapper's son and a champion Irish Setter roam wilderness areas and grow up together.