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The Outdoors
Best Birdwatching Books
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles (2024 B&N Gift Book of the Year)
By Amy Tan, David Allen Sibley
Tan trades her novelist’s pen for a sketchpad and binoculars, offering a beautifully illustrated, witty, and deeply personal account of finding solace and sharp-eyed discovery in her own backyard.
Field Guides
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Recreational Skiing
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By William Finnegan
The story of William Finnegan and his life as a surfer with so many delicious layers in between. It’s a deeply personal narrative with real-life adventures that will keep you glued to the page as you learn more about this wild character and the friendships he forged.
Recreational Surfing
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See AllVisit the National Parks
See AllA 750-Mile Trek Through Awe-Inspiring Country
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By Kevin Fedarko
An ode to nature and the American wilderness that is equal parts personal journey, travelogue and survival story, this is an inspired look at our beautiful world and where we fit in it.
Regional Guides
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See AllHilarious, Thought-Provoking, and Occasionally Catastrophic
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
By Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson’s droll humor and gifts of observation are unmatched in this story of one man's eventful trek along the Appalachian Trail.
Best Nature Books
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See AllInto the Frozen Void
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
By Hampton Sides
Sides masterfully weaves a true story of terrifying isolation, remarkable endurance, and the devastating cost of human obsession against an unforgiving Arctic landscape.
