Offers advice on drying fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, and herbs, and tells how to organize provisions for a backpacking trip

The Lightweight Gourmet: Drying and Cooking Food for the Outdoor Life

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Kesselheim, Alan S.

Outdoor Cooking

McGraw=Hill

" . . . a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever choked down the pre-packaged, bargain-basement camp food (or gone bankrupt buying the good stuff)." --Canoe &amp; Kayak 
 . . . if you're on the lookout for a way to bring real meals to the field, [this book] might have the answer." --Field &amp; Stream 
Life in the outdoors revolves around food--cooking it, eating it, packing it, carrying it. We even fantasize about it, especially after a week of eating store-bought provisions. This book is all about fulfulling those food fantasies and avoiding those expensive disappointments. Trail Food tells you how to remove water from food, to make it lighter and longer-lasting, without removing its taste. Learn to plan menus and prepare meals just like the ones you left behind, using fresh foods from your garden or market, prepared and seasoned the way you like them. 
Why fantasize when you can have the real thing?

Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling

Canning & Preserving

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

This book by America's preeminent canoeing author combines evocative wilderness writing with nuts-and-bolts coverage of all practical aspects of canoe tripping. Alan Kesselheim uses the lessons he's learned first-hand over thousands of miles of wilderness paddling to create a context for conveying everything a new or experienced paddler can expect to encounter, on any type of water. Kesselheim's unsurpassed expertisegained by paddling under every condition imaginablespeaks clearly to readers looking to acquaint themselves with the essentials of traveling by canoe. Helpful sidebars, interspersed throughout the book, provide step-by-step instructions on all critical considerations, such as how to plan, pack, equip, and modify a canoe for weekend or extended trips. The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook is surely a classic-in-the-making and must-reading for serious canoeists and outdoor book enthusiasts alike.

The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

Ragged Mountain Press

The Camp Cook's Companion offers a savory alternative to the bland, just-add-water fare to which most outdoor types resort after a long day in the woods. Acclaimed outdoor writer Alan Kesselheim serves up a delightfully varied menu of more than 150 recipes, made from both fresh and dehydrated ingredients. Proving one needn't sacrifice flavor for utility, Kesselheim describes easy-to-prepare recipes for everything from French toast to "Basil Wrathboned" chicken. He also offers the choice of a number of preparation methods from simple one-pan offerings to creative Dutch oven repasts and baked goods.

Camp Cook's Companion : A Pocket Guide

An account of a married couple's year in Canada's barren northern wilderness describes how two explorers encountered sub-zero temperatures, dangerous animals, and the beauty of nature. Reprint.

Water and Sky (Laurel Expedition)

Travel

Travel Writing

Laurel

Tired of the frantic activity of society, and, more troubling, growing tired of each other (and their inability to have a child), Alan Kesselheim and Marypat Zitzer decide to take unusual steps to avert a crisis in their marriage. They escape on a year-long canoeing expedition. They begin paddling at Grand Cache, Alberta, on the Smoky River. Following old fur-trade routes, they travel northeast, to the far end of Lake Athabaska. Their first summer’s paddling done, they dig in for a long, lonely winter in a tiny cabin in a deserted fishing camp. It is here that Marypat discovers, against all expectations, that she is pregnant. When the thaw comes, they resolve to press on into the Northwest Territories, north of the tree line and beyond the reach of medical help, to try to reach Baker Lake – although, assuming all goes well, Marypat will be heavily pregnant by the time they reach their destination… The heart of Going Inside is not the adventure of white-water rapids or the ferocious storms and numbing cold, but rather Alan Kesselheim’s deep joy at the beauty and healing power of the natural world – discovering fresh wolf tracks, looking an otter in the face, observing the ever-changing character of a river each day, seeing the slow stirring of the natural world as the hard grip of a northern winter begins to ease. In this environment, what seemed important back in civilization becomes trivial, and the natural cycle, so easily ignored when insulated by modern living, becomes profound. With rare grace Kesselheim enfolds his reader in this world and portrays the universal drama of two people learning how to get along.

Going Inside: A Couple's Journey of Renewal into the North

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

MCCLELLAND STEWART

The only wilderness paddling guide that tells you not just what gear you need, but what to leave behind and how to judge the difference.

Reference

An account of a married couple's year in Canada's barren  northern wilderness describes how two explorers encountered sub-zero  temperatures, dangerous animals, and the beauty of nature. Reprint.  PW.

Water and sky

Stoddart

This narrative goes beyond a mere chronicling of miles traveled, of deep-winter hardships, of whitewater challenges and wildlife confrontations. Paralleling the day-by-day account of their wilderness odyssey is the theme of introspective journeying and self-discovery.

Water and Sky: Reflections of a Northern Year

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum

A thoughtful, compelling account of a life that appears on the surface to be merely mundane tasks-learning to drive a tractor, planting wheat, aiding a sick cow-but that is as deep as the canyons that carve out the high plains.

Silhouette on a Wide Land

Fulcrum+ Publishing

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The Lightweight Gourmet: Drying and Cooking Food for the Outdoor Life

Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling

The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook

Camp Cook's Companion : A Pocket Guide

Water and Sky (Laurel Expedition)

Going Inside: A Couple's Journey of Renewal into the North

The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook

Water and sky

Water and Sky: Reflections of a Northern Year

Silhouette on a Wide Land