From how to fight off a bear and how to identify poison ivy to how to rappel down a mountain and select the right sleeping bag for cold-weather camping, this intro-level guide teaches the skills that anyone can use to thrive in the great outdoors.
Brendan Leonard has completed more than a dozen organized ultramarathons and marathons, including three of the most difficult 100-mile trail races in America. In 2019, he set out to complete 52 marathon-distance runs in 52 weeks, and survived, while having fun part of the time. Leonard is a columnist at Outside, and his writing has appeared in Runner’s World, National Geographic Adventure, Climbing, and Alpinist and on CNN.com and in dozens of other publications. He directed the 2017 short film How to Run 100 Miles, which screened at film festivals in more than 20 countries and on six continents and was viewed more than 5 million times online. He is the author of Surviving the Great Outdoors and the coauthor of The Camping Life. He lives in Denver, Colorado. Find him on Instagram at @semi_rad.
“Leonard’s durable tome (seriously, the cover is rubber) is stuffed
with so many tips about surviving in the wild, you’ll be able to
leave your smartphone behind.”
—Entertainment Weekly, Best New Books
“Essential knowledge for planning rustic adventures. . . .
Encyclopedic.”
—5280 magazine
“Tips for surviving, thriving in, and enjoying the wilderness
beyond urban dwellers’ backyards. With diagrams, lists, and
questions answered . . . even the most uninitiated will feel ready
to tackle the (truly) great outdoors.”
—Booklist
“Highly giftable.”
—New York magazine
“How much embarrassment I would have been spared had I owned this
book when I first started going on adventures. I'm putting it in my
glove compartment to prevent future calamity.”
—Jonah Ogles, Outside magazine
“The pragmatic and useful advice in The Great Outdoors: A User's
Guide is from real experience, and cuts through the myth and
confusion created by marketers and our well-intentioned friends and
family. The Great Outdoors is worthy of your shelf space—even if
your home has limited space, i.e., a camper van.”
—Mitsu Iwasaki, executive director, Northwest Outward Bound
School
“Most guide books are specific to an area or already assume a
certain level of ‘radness’ for the potential reader. The Great
Outdoors: A User's Guide highlights that being rad is up to the
individual to decide and it can be just as great to camp in the
backyard—and he’ll tell you how—as it is to explore mountains from
New Hampshire to the Himalayas.”
—Stacy Bare, director, Sierra Club Outdoors
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