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  Lucky: A True Story

  David A. Green, Judy D'Mello

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  Slumdog Millionaire meets Forrest Gump 
  In 2018, under a full moon in the remote Mantiqueira mountain range in Brazil, a sickly stray dog chose to follow a runner during the Brazil 135 ultramarathon. He stayed by his side for 140 miles. 
  Fast forward to 2021, when Lucky the stray, now living the life in Florida, set off with his ultrarunner soulmate, David Green, on the journey of their lives — a four-month run covering 3,400 miles from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to Muir Beach, California. Their route took them through a nation ravaged by Covid-19 and still reeling from the most toxic presidential election in history. An RV became their nightly retreat-on-wheels, captained by Chris, an affable chef from Brooklyn, who would provide so much more than food. 
  This is David’s honest account, his love letter to Lucky, after three short years together, during which time they inspired each other to break barriers of what is thought possible for dogs and humans -- physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

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  Fifty Percent of Mountaineering...

  Susanna Pfisterer

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  Winner of the Alberta Readers' Choice Award! 
   
  Fifty Percent of Mountaineering Is Uphill is the enthralling true story of Jasper's Willi Pfisterer, a legend in the field of mountaineering and safety in the Rocky Mountains. For more than thirty years, Willi was an integral part of Jasper's alpine landscape, guiding climbers up to the highest peaks, and rescuing them from perilous situations. 
   
  Originally from Austria, this mountain man came to Canada in the 1950s to assail the Rockies, and stayed to become an integral part of mountain safety in Western Canada and the Yukon. His daughter, Susanna Pfisterer, has shaped his stories and lectures as an engaging and educational adventure story. Accompanied by the humorous wisdom of the "Sidehillgouger," listeners will traverse an historical and spectacular terrain.

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  A Fenland Garden - Creating a...

  Francis Pryor

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  The story of how Francis Pryor created a haven for people, plants and wildlife in a remote corner of the fens. 
   
  A Fenland Garden is the story of the creation of a garden in a complex and fragile English landscape - the Fens of southern Lincolnshire - by a writer who has a very particular relationship with landscape and the soil, thanks to his distinguished career as an archaeologist and discoverer of some of England's earliest field systems. It describes the imagining, planning and building of a garden in an unfamiliar and sometimes hostile place, and the challenges, setbacks and joys these processes entail. This is a narrative of the making of a garden, but it is also about reclaiming a patch of ground for nature and wildlife - of repairing the damage done to a small slice of Fenland landscape by decades of intensive farming. 
   
  A Fenland Garden is informed by the empirical wisdom of a practising gardener (and archaeologist) and by his deep understanding of the soil, landscape and weather of the region; Francis's account of the development of the garden is counterpointed by fascinating nuggets of Fenland lore and history, as well as by vignettes of the plantsman's trials and tribulations as he works an exceptionally demanding plot of land.

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  Backyard Homesteading Essentials...

  Benjamin Adams

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  The all-inclusive guide "Backyard Homesteading Essentials: Your Guide to a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle" is your roadmap to adopting the age-old tradition of homesteading. Regardless of your level of experience, this book provides insightful analysis, helpful tips, and detailed instructions to help you establish a prosperous and sustainable homestead in your own backyard. 
  You will gain a clear understanding of all the necessary information to start your homesteading journey with confidence through a sequence of well-written chapters. Each chapter aims to provide you with the tools you need to take charge of your food production, lessen your environmental impact, and develop a closer relationship with the land and the food you eat. These tools range from comprehending the fundamentals of homesteading and designing your homestead layout to learning vital skills like gardening, animal husbandry, and food preservation. 
  However, "Backyard Homesteading Essentials" offers more than just helpful guidance. It delves into the underlying philosophy of homesteading, highlighting ideas like community building, self-sufficiency, and resiliency. You'll learn how homesteading provides a method to become more self-sufficient, conscious, and fulfilled, in addition to a way to grow food. 
  You'll discover helpful advice, true-to-life examples, and motivational tales from seasoned homesteaders woven throughout the book to highlight important ideas and show how homesteading ideas may be implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances. This book offers you the resources and motivation you need to design a self-sufficient and sustainable homestead that suits your particular needs, whether you have acres of rural land, a small urban lot, or both.

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  To Catch a Fish - Essays on the...

  Mark Kurlansky

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  From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, To Catch a Fish is an entertaining and beautifully written illustrated collection of essays that explore a lifetime fascination with fishing.    For as long as there have been humans, there have been humans trying to catch fish. The two species—fish and man—live in constant tension. One chases the other. One tries to get away. Some of us—author Mark Kurlansky included—are hard-wired for that chase. Guiding readers through the waters and into the mind of the fish, Kurlansky considers who fish are and why they behave the way they do, and along the way delves into the many approaches to catching a fish, their ecology, and the ins and outs of cooking and eating your catch.      Whether you’re a seasoned angler or a novice, or simply want to explore the world of fish, the forty short essays in this collection and the dazzling illustrations by Bri Dostie, shed new light on these creatures and our relationship to them.  

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  Navigation & Voyage Planning...

  Tim Davison, Alastair Buchan

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  Fernhurst Books' compact, handy guides to navigating at sea, nautical calculations and passage planning bundled together in e-book form for the first time. The perfect quick reference guides to keep on your phone or tablet, easily accessible when you are on board. They contain all the essential information for when you need it most about navigating and passage planning. The Navigation Companion covers all the navigation essentials: charts, compass, tides, standard and secondary ports, dead reckoning, estimated position, course to steer, lights, GPS, waypoints and buoyage in a highly illustrated format making it easy to understand at a glance – ideal for those moments when you need an answer, and you need it fast! The Nautical Calculation Companion is an aide memoire of those calculations frequently needed (but often forgotten) for traditional coastal and offshore navigation and other equations and formulae which can be useful afloat. Each topic has worked examples, and there are frequent diagrams to illustrate the process. The Passage Planning Companion details the timetable for developing a passage plan and goes through all the elements you should consider: port information, routeing, weather, tides, timings and safety. It then takes you through ship management on the passage: the crew briefing, roles, routines, pre-sail checks, watch keeping and much more. This will be a valued companion when planning and executing a sea voyage.

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