Master Lists
Thanks to dedicated NOBA volunteer, Georgi Baird, we are able to offer several PDF files with past NOBA winners ordered by category, author, year, and title. Libraries, researchers and members of the media may find this information helpful. The master list, below, is ordered by category and year (click on the year for a complete citation and review of the book).
Master List PDF's - Ordered by: Author | Year | Title | Special Title (Includes Scans of all Covers)*
* Note: the "Special Title" PDF file includes images and is a 4 MByte file. It will take some time to download.
| Title | Winning Year |
Credits | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
CHILDREN'S CATEGORY |
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| The Inuksuk Book | Text and illustrations by Mary Wallace. | Greey de Pencier Books (Owl Books) | |
| Blueberry Shoe | By Ann Dixon. Illustrations by Evon Zerbetz. | Alaska Northwest Books | |
| Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish | By Twig C. George. | Millbrook Press | |
| Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest | Written and illustrated by Bruce Hiscock. | Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, Pennsylvania | |
| What Does the Sky Say? | By Nancy White Carlstrom. Illustrated by Tim Ladwig. | Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, Michigan | |
| Ladybugs: Red, Fiery and Bright | By Mia Posada. | Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis | |
| Wild Wings: Poems for Young People | By Jane Yolen. Photographs by Jason Stemple. | Wordsong and Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, PA | |
| Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery | By Ellen Stoll Walsh. | Hartcourt, Inc., New York | |
| Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie | By Gloria Whelan. Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. | Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI | |
| Whose Garden Is It? | By Mary Ann Hoberman. Illustrated by Jane Dyer. | Harcourt, New York | |
| The Leaf Man | By Lois Ehlert. | Harcourt, New York | |
| The Little Green Island With a Little Red House: A Book of Colors and Critters | By Sharon Lovejoy. | Down East Books, Rockport, ME | |
| Gaia Girls Enter the Earth | By Lee Welles. | Daisyworld Press, Corning, NY | |
| Kelly of Hazel Ridge | Text by Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuysen. Illustrations by Gijsbert van Frankenhuysen. | Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI | |
| Peak | By Roland Smith. | Harcourt, Orlando, FL | |
| The Pole | By Eric Walters. | Puffin Canada/Penguin Group, Toronto | |
| Operation Redwood | By S. Terrell French. | Abrams/Amulet Books, New York | |
| Whistling Wings | By Laura Goering. | Sylvan Dell Publishing, Mt Pleasant, SC | |
| DESIGN AND ARTISTIC MERIT | |||
| The Rocky Mountain Foods Cookbook | Written and illustrated by Darcy Williamson, cover art by Larry Milligan, design by Teresa Sales. | Caxton Press | |
| 100 Classic Hikes in Washington | By Ira Spring and Harvey Manning. Jennifer Shontz, Graphic Coordinator. Marge Mueller, Cartography. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle. | |
| Track of the Tiger |
Edited by Maurice Hornocker. Andy Lewis, Art Director. Tom Lewis, Design Director. | Produced by Tehabi Books and published by Sierra Club Books | |
| Spotted Bear: A Rocky Mountain Folktale |
By Hanneke Ippisch. Illustrated by Hedvig Rappe-Flowers. Designed by Kim Ericsson. Kathleen Ort, Editor-in-Chief. | Mountain Press Publishing | |
| Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail | By Leonard Adkins. Photographs by Joe and Monica Cook. Grant M. Tatum, Creative Director. | Menasha Ridge Press | |
| Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography |
Photography by Bradford Washburn. Edited and Compiled by Antony Decaneas. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| The Living Wild | Photography by Art Wolfe. | Wildlands Press, Seattle | |
| The Southwest's Contrary Land: Forever Changing Between Four Corners and the Sea of Cortes | By Craig Childs. Designed by Mary Winkelman Velgos. Photography Editor Peter Ensenberger. | Arizona Highways Books. Phoenix. AZ | |
| Wilder Mississippi | Photographs by Stephen Kirkpatrick. Text by Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick. Design by Heidi Flynn Allen. | The Marvelous Works, Madison, MS | |
| First Light: Acadia National Park and Maine's Mount Desert Island | Photography by Tom Blagden, Jr. Text by Charles R. Tyson, Jr. | Friends of Acadia in combination with Westcliffe Publishers | |
| Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky | Photography by Art Wolfe. Essays by Art Davidson. | Wildlands Press, Seattle | |
| The Mountains Know Arizona | Photographs by Michael Collier. Text by Rose Houk. Designed by Mary Winkelmann Velgos. | Arizona Highways, Phoenix | |
| Mountain Ranges of Colorado | Photographed and Written by John Fielder. Designed by Mark Mulvany. | Westcliffe Publishers, Englewood, CO | |
| 100 Caterpillars | By Jeffrey C. Miller, Daniel H. Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs. | The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge | |
| Wings of Spring: Courtship, Nesting and Fledging | Photographs by Tom Vezo an text by Chuck Hagner. | Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA | |
| Arctic Wings: Birds of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge | Edited by Stephen Brown. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Yosemite in the Sixties | Essays by Kevin Starr, Steve Roper and Glen Denny. Photographs by Glen Denny. | Patagonia and T. Adler Books, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| Bruce Aiken's Grand Canyon: An Intimate Affair | Text by Susan Hallsten McGarry. Paintings by Bruce Aiken. | Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, AZ | |
| Soul of the Heights: 50 Years Going to the Mountains | Photographs and text by Ed Cooper. | Falcon Guides, Guilford, CT | |
| Surfboards | By Guy Motil. | Falcon Guides, Guilford, CT | |
| Lars Jonsson's Birds | Illustrations, explanatory text and commentary by Jonsson. | Princeton University Press, Princeton | |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY | |||
| The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom |
By Vince Welch, Cort Conley, and Brad Dimock. | Fretwater Press | |
| One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey | By Sam Keith from the journals of Richard Proenneke. | Alaska Northwest Books | |
| The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory | By Peter and Leni Gillman. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell | By Donald Worster. | Oxford University Press, New York | |
| Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde | By Brad Dimock. | Fretwater Press, Flagstaff, Arizona | |
| Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,200 Mile Odyssey Among the Inuit | By Jonathan Waterman. | Lyons Press/Globe Pequot, Guilford, CT | |
| Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism | By Char Miller. | Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington | |
| Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island | By Chris Duff. | Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT | |
| Women on High: Pioneers of Mountaineering | By Rebecca A. Brown. | Appalachian Mountain Club Books, Boston, MA | |
| Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering | By Andy Selters. | American Alpine Club Press, Golden, Colorado | |
| Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life | By Arlene Blum. | Scribner, New York | |
| Journey of a Hope Merchant: From Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing | By Neal Petersen with William P. Baldwin and Patty Fulcher. | South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC | |
| The Last Season | By Eric Blehm. | HarperCollins, New York | |
| Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disaster | By James M. Tabor. | W. W. Norton & Company, New York | |
| The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River | By Brad Dimock. | Fretwater Press, Flagstaff, AZ | |
| Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes | By Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver. | Yale University Press | |
| Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of the Grand Canyon | By Elias Butler and Tom Myers. | Puma Press, Flagstaff, AZ | |
| Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America | By Douglas Brinkley. | Harper, New York | |
| INSTRUCTIONAL | |||
| Ragged Mountain Press Guide to Outdoor Sports | By Jonathan and Roseann Hanson. | Ragged Mountain Press | |
| Knots and Ropes for Climbers | By Duane Raleigh. Illustrated by Mike Clelland. | Stackpole Books | |
| Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast and High | By Mark F. Twight and James Martin. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| The National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide |
By Mark Harvey. | A Fireside Book Published by Simon & Schuster | |
| The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide | By Tom Rosenbauer. Illustrations by Rod Walinchus. Fly Pattern Photographs by Henry Ambrose. | The Lyons Press, New York | |
| The Complete Sea Kayaker's Handbook | By Shelley Johnson. | Ragged Mountain Press, Camden, NH | |
| The Mountain Traveller's Handbook | By Paul Deegan. | British Mountaineering Council, Manchester, UK | |
| Basic Canoeing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started | By Jon Rounds and Wayne Dickert. Photographs by Skip Brown. Illustrations by Taina Litwak. | Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA | |
| Rock Climbing: Mastering the Basic Skills | By Craig Luebben. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Basic Kayaking: All the Skills and Gear You Need to Get Started | By Wayne Dickert and Jon Rounds. Photographs by Skip Brown. Illustrations by Roberto Sabas. | Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA | |
| Glacier Mountaineering: An Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue | By Andy Tyson. Illustrated by Mike Clelland. Edited by Michael Kennedy. | Climbing Magazine, Carbondale, CO | |
| Extreme Kids: How to connect with your children through today's extreme (and not so extreme) outdoor sports | By Scott Graham. | Wilderness Press, Berkeley | |
| The Complete Mountain Biking Manual | By Tim Brink. | Ragged Mountain Press, Camden, ME | |
| Road Bike Maintenance | By Guy Andrews. | Falcon Guides, Guilford, CT | |
| Whitewater Kayaking: The Ultimate Guide | By Ken Whiting and Kevin Varette. | Heliconia Press. Beachburg, Ontario | |
| Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace and Courage | By Katie Brown. Photographs by Ben Moon. | Globe Pequot Press/Falcon Guides, Guilford, CN | |
| NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE | |||
| Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion | By Alan Burdick. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | |
| Condor: To the Brink and Back | By John Nielsen. | HarperCollins Publishers, New York | |
| Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West | By Michael Punke. | Smithsonian Books, New York | |
| Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place | By Robert Michael Pyle. | Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston | |
| The American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree | By Susan Freinkel. | University of California Press, Berkeley | |
| Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys | By Rob Dunn. | Smithsonian Books. New York | |
| NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | |||
| Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids | By Laura Erickson, illustrated by Kathryn Marsaa. | Pfeifer-Hamilton | |
| The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack | By David Mech. | Voyageur Press | |
| The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource | By Tim Palmer. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Islands of Hope: Lessons from North America's Great Wildlife Sanctuaries | By Phillip Manning. | John F. Blair | |
| Washington's Mount Rainier National Park: A Centennial Celebration | By Tim McNulty. Photographs by Pat O'Hara. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Penguin Planet: Their World, Our World | By Kevin Schafer. | NorthWord Press | |
| Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden |
By Terry Grosz. | Johnson Books | |
| For Love of Wildness: The Journal of a U.S. Game Management Agent | By Terry Grosz. | Johnson Books, Boulder | |
| Pacific Light: Images of the Monterey Peninsula | By Douglas Steakley. Poetry by Ric Masten. | Carmel Publishing Company, Carmel, California | |
| Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank | By Andrew Beattie and Paul Ehrlich. Illustrated by Christine Turnbull. | Yale University Press, New Haven | |
| Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History | By Ted Steinberg. | Oxford University Press, New York | |
| Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us | By Alexandra Morton. | Ballantine Books, New York | |
| The Southwest Inside Out: An Illustrated Guide to the Land and Its History | By Thomas Wiewandt and Maureen Wilks. | Wild Horizons Publishing. Tucson, AZ | |
| Ice Island: Expedition to Antarctica's Largest Iceberg | By Gregory S. Stone. | New England Aquarium, Boston MA | |
| The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty | By Kenneth Libbrecht. Photography by Patricia Rasmussen. | Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota | |
| Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behavior and Conservation | By James R. Spotila. | The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore | |
| Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery | By Wayne Ranney. | Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, AZ | |
| Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya | By David Zurick and Julsun Pacheco. | University of Kentucky Press, Lexington | |
| Life in the Underground | By David Attenborough. | Princeton University Press, Princeton | |
| Condors in Canyon Country: The Return of the California Condor to the Grand Canyon Region | By Sophie A. H. Osborn. | Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, AZ | |
| White Paradise: Journeys to the North Pole | By Francis Latreille. | Abrams, New York | |
| The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region | By Wayne Grady. | Greystone Books, Vancouver | |
| The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World | Photographs by Steven Kazlowski. | Braided River Books, an imprint of The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Our Living Earth | By Yann Arthus-Bertrand. | Abrams/Books for Young Readers, New York | |
| Sand: The Never Ending Story | By Michael Welland. | University of California Press. Berkeley | |
| NATURE GUIDEBOOK | |||
| Canoe Country Flora | By Mark Stensaas, illustrated by Jeff Sonstegard. | Pfeifer-Hamilton | |
| A Field Guide to Snakes of Florida | By Alan Tennant. | Gulf Publishing Company | |
| Colorado Nature Almanac | By Stephen R. Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman. | Pruett Publishing Company Company | |
| Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains: A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species | By James Halfpenny, Ph.D. Illustrated by Todd Telander & Designed by Dana Kim-Wincapaw. | Falcon Publishing | |
| Guide to Marine Mammals & Turtles of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico | By Kate Wynne and Malia Schwartz. Illustrated by Garth Mix. | Rhode Island Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island | |
| Butterflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Western North America | By Jeffrey Glassberg. | Oxford University Press, New York | |
| The Raptor Almanac: A Comprehensive Guide to Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Vultures | By Scott Weidensaul. | The Lyons Press, New York | |
| Bird Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species | By Mark Elbroch and Eleanor Marks. | Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA | |
| Lichens of North America | By Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff. | Yale University Press, New Haven | |
| Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species | By Mark Elbroch. | Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA | |
| The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific | By Milton S. Love, Mary Yoklavich, and Lyman Thorsteinson. | University of California Press, Berkeley, CA | |
| Dragonflies of the North Woods | By Kurt Mead. | Kollath-Stensaas Publishing, Duluth, Minnesota | |
| Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves | By Laura and William Riley. | Princeton University Press, Princeton | |
| Snakes of the Southeast | By Whit Gibbons and Mike Dorcas. | The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA | |
| Caterpillars of Eastern North America | By David L. Wagner. | Princeton University Press, Princeton | |
| Yellowstone Expedition Guide: The Modern Way to Explore America's Oldest National Park | By Charissa Reid. | TravelBrains, Inc., Bedford, NH | |
| Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide | By Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner and Miguel Lentino. | Yale University Press, New Haven and A & C Black, London | |
| Birds of Peru | By Tomas S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O'Neill, and Theodore A. Parker III. | Princeton University Press, Princeton | |
| Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West | By Dennis Paulson. | Princeton University Press | |
| Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America | By Roger Tory Peterson. | Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston | |
| OUTDOOR ADVENTURE GUIDEBOOK | |||
| Colorado's Continental Divide Trail | By Tom Lorang Jones. Photographs by John Fielder. | Westcliffe Publishers | |
| Trout Unlimited's Guide to America's 100 Best Trout Streams |
By John Ross. Jeff Wincapaw, Art Director. | Falcon Publishing and Trout Unlimited | |
| Vermont and New Hampshire Winter Trails |
By Marty Basch. | The Globe Pequot Press | |
| Guide to Sea Kayaking Central and Northern California | By Roger Schumann and Jan Shriner. | The Globe Pequot Press | |
| Montana and Idaho's Continental Divide Trail |
By Lynna Howard. Photography By Leland Howard. | Westcliffe Publishers | |
| 101 Hikes in Northern California: Exploring Mountains, Valleys, and Seashore | By Matt Heid. | Wilderness Press, Berkeley | |
| Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List | By Mark Kroese. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Hike America Virginia: An Atlas of Virginia's Greatest Hiking Adventures | By Bill & Mary Burnham. | The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut | |
| Alaska: A Climbing Guide | By Michael Wood and Colby Coombs. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Hiking the Sierra Nevada | By John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil. | Lonely Planet Publications, Footscray, Australia | |
| 100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest: Eastern Washington, Northern Rockies, Wallowas | By Rich Landers and the Spokane Mountaineers. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park | By Marc J. Soares. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Trekking Washington | By Mike Woodmansee. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| 100 Classic Hikes in Oregon | By Douglas Lorain. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Idaho's Salmon River: A River Runner's Guide to the River of No Return | By Eric J. Newell and Allison J. Newell. | Black Canyon Guides, Logan, UT | |
| Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide | By Roxanna Brook and Jared McMillen. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Top Trails Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks | By Andrew Dean Nystrom. | Wilderness Press, Berkeley | |
| The Middle Fork of the Salmon River: A Comprehensive Guide | By Matt Leidecker. | Idaho River Publications, Hailey, ID | |
| Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon | By Tom Martin and Duwain Whitis. | Vishnu Temple Press, Flagstaff, AZ | |
| Florida Keys Paddling Atlas | By Bill and Mary Burnham. | Falcon Guides, Guilford, CT | |
| Guide to the Green and Yampa Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument |
By Duwain Whitis and Barbara Vinson | RiverMaps, Buda, TX | |
| The Guide to Baja Sea Kayaking | By Dave Eckardt. | Paddle Publishing, Eagle, CO | |
| OUTDOOR CLASSIC | |||
| Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills | Edited by Don Graydon and Kurt Hanson. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Two in the Far North | By Margaret Murie. | Alaska Northwest Books | |
| Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods | By John J. Rowlands with illustrations by Henry B. Kane. | The Countryman Press | |
| A Sand County Almanac: A Sketches Here and There | By Aldo Leopold. | Oxford University Press | |
| Wilderness and the American Mind | By Roderick Nash. | Yale University Press, New Haven | |
| Backwoods Ethics: A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking | By Laura and Guy Waterman. | The Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT | |
| Alone | By Richard E. Byrd. | Island Press, Washington, DC | |
| Walden | By Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. | Yale University Press, New Haven | |
| Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens | By P.G. Downes. | Heron Dance Press, New Ferrisburg, VT. | |
| A Natural History of North American Trees | By Donald Culross Peattie. | Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston | |
| The Pacific Crest Trail (Series). In three volumes: Southern California, Northern California and Oregon &Washington. | By Thomas Winnett, Ben Schifrin, Jeffrey Schaffer, Ruby Johnson Jenkins, and Andy Selters. | Wilderness Press, Berkeley | |
| Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico | By Ellsworth L. Kolb. | Grand Canyon Assoc., Grand Canyon, AZ (Originally publ. by MacMillan 1914) | |
| Appalachian Odyssey: Walking the Trail from Georgia to Maine | By Steve Sherman and Julia Older. | Author's Guild, New York | |
| Kayak: The New Frontier | By William Nealy. | Menasha Ridge Press, Birmingham | |
| OUTDOOR CLASSIC: Life-time Achievement Recognition | |||
| Farley Mowat for Sea of Slaughter, Never Cry Wolf and other works--Sea of Slaughter | By Farley Mowat. Note: Never Cry Wolf and other Mowat books are available from a variety of publishers. | Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA | |
| OUTDOOR LITERATURE | |||
| Landscapes of the Interior | By Don Gayton. | New Society Publishers | |
| The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World |
Edited by Scott Olsen and Scott Cairns. | University of Utah Press | |
| Postcards from the Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child | By Greg Child. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water | By Richard Bangs. | Sierra Club Books in conjunction with Random House | |
| On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak | By Chris Duff. | St. Martin's Press | |
| Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China and Vietnam | By Erika Warmbrunn. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Rowing to Latitude | By Jill Fredston. | North Point Press, New York | |
| The Beckoning Silence | By Joe Simpson. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| A Blistered Kind of Love | By Angela and Duffy Ballard. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age | By Ted Kerasote. | Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota | |
| Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure | By Maria Coffey. | St. Martin's Press, New York | |
| At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness | By Peter Stark. | Ballatine Books, New York | |
| Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women who climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain | By Jennifer Jordan. | William Morrow, New York | |
| Being Caribou | By Karsten Heuer. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska | By Lou Ureneck. | St. Martins Press, New York | |
| Blue Horizons: Dispatches from Distant Seas | By Beth A. Leonard. | International Marine/McGraw-Hill, Camden, ME | |
| Forget Me Not: A Memoir | By Jennifer Lowe-Anker. | The Mountaineers Books, Seattle | |
| Halfway to Heaven | By Mark Obmascik. | Free Press/Simon & Schuster, New York. | |
| Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Ocean | By Julie Angus. | Greystone Books, Vancouver. | |
| WORKS OF SIGNIFICANCE | |||
| Cowstails and Cobras II: A Guide to Games, Initiatives, Ropes Courses, & Adventure Curriculum | By Karl Rohnke. | ||
| Expedition Kayaking | By Derek Hutchinson. | ||
| How to Rock Climb | By John Long. | ||
| Kayaking: An Animated Guide of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique | By William Nealy. | ||
| Walking Softy in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking | By John Hart. | ||
| AMC White Mountain Guide: Hiking Trails of the White Mountain National Forest | Compiled and Edited by Gene Daniell and Steven D. Smith. | Appalachian Mountain Club Books, Boston, MA | |
| Connecticut Walk Book: The Guide to the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails of Western Connecticut | Edited Ann T. Colson. | Connecticut Forest and Park Association, Rockfall, CN | |
* Our thanks to Georgi Baird of Normal, Illinois for her work in creating and maintaining the PDF files.