Teach Yourself Origami provides a comprehensive introduction to this simple and inexpensive, yet creative and absorbing, art form. A newly revised history of origami--or, the art of paper folding-- from its origins in the 12th century is followed by hundreds of diagrams with clear instructions showing how to create a range of models from the simple paper hat to the elaborate Japanese lady.

Teach Yourself Origami

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Harbin,Robin

Brill,David

Crafts & Hobbies

McGraw=Hill

A Separate Place: A Family, a Cabin in the Woods, and a Journey of Love and Spirit

A middle-aged man reclaims his life, marriage, and family in a moving memoir of a person in search of appropriate priorities, a more fulfilling life, and a deeper relationship with his two daughters. By the author of As Far As the Eye Can See. Reprint.

Biographies & Memoirs

Plume

The award-winning journalist and author of As Far As the Eye Can See describes his journey as a novice, middle-aged climber to the top of North America's highest peak, Denali, detailing the physical and psychological challenges of his trip, the harsh conditions he faced, and the history of expeditions to Denali. Original.

Desire & Ice: A Search for Perspective Atop Denali

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

National Geographic

Brilliant Origami: A Collection of Original Designs

Arts & Photography

Sculpture

Japan Pubns

These beautiful mist-shrouded mountains can, and often do, turn deadly… Volume I of Into the Mist depicts men and women in extreme situations, struggling to survive against brutal and often deadly adversity. Through the book’s 13 chapters, Into the Mist readers will: -Piece together the events leading to a tragic encounter between an elementary school teacher and two black bears in the park’s backcountry. -Share in the heroic response of the park’s rangers in the face of brutal weather events, including the March 1993 “Storm of the Century,” and their successful efforts to rescue hundreds of stranded visitors and ultimately prevent loss of life and limb. -Experience a lone hiker’s final moments as he succumbs to bitter cold without benefit of a shelter as wind-driven snow piles ever higher on the trail. -Learn how the body of a murdered Jane Doe discovered in a park stream leads to a cross-country hunt for her killer. -A bonus appendix lists the park’s leading causes of death and most dangerous places.

Into the Mist: Tales of Death Disaster, Mishaps and Misdeeds, Misfortune and Mayhem in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

History

Americas

Smokies Life

Exploring the Cumberland Valley and Plateau, this account illustrates the natural history of the area and reflects on the completion of the proposed Cumberland Trail. A memorable journey through Tennessee’s hills, forests, and unspoiled wilderness, this record offers a glimpse into the scenic trail and what is in store for adventurous hikers and nature lovers. Illustrated throughout, this chronicle showcases the area’s beauty through its streams, waterfalls, birds, and fauna.

Cumberland Odyssey: A Journey in Pictures and Words along Tennessee’s Cumberland Trail and Plateau

Photography & Video

Mountain Trail Press

As Far As the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker

The author relives his five-month journey along the Appalachian Trail, from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Rutledge Hill Pr

After hiking 2,100 miles from Georgia to Maine, David Brill discovered the wonders of the Appalachian Trail. In his book, As Far As The Eye Can See, David Brill relives the Trail in such a way that readers can experience the trail with him. They fell his cold, they know his hunger, they learn as he learns and walk where he goes. As the Bulletin says, "Brill's writing style is such that readers experience the trail with him." The book outlines certain aspects of the hiking experience with chapters such as 'Fear,' 'Seasons,' 'Critters,' 'Gear,' and more, each going into detail making the experience real. 
Upon graduating from college in the late seventies, David Brill set out to, as he puts it, "Find out what I was made of," and five months later, he had been transformed from living a sheltered life to living in the wild. In As Far As The Eye Can See read about the growth of a man through detailed description of people and places he encountered and his reflections on the meaning of fear and confidence, success and failure, friends and solitude, self-reliance, interdependence, and much more. "The book has something to say even to those of us who never considered hiking to Maine," says the Oak Ridger. As Far As The Eye Can See is a book for trail hikers,-past, present or future-for nature lovers, for adventurers, and-perhaps most of all-it is for anyone who feels the need to search for and then reconcile with their inner self.

Travel

Travel Writing

In 1979, David Brill became one of the first of a new generation to complete the Georgia-to-Maine hike on the Appalachian Trail. As Far as the Eye Can See, now a classic, chronicles his six-month, 2,100 mile walk, a quest to live simply and deliberately, with room to grow, to breathe, to change, to discover what really mattered to him. This new edition includes two new chapters: “A Passage, at Midlife along the Smokies AT” and “On the Trail of Benton MacKaye—Again.” They recount a time of reawakening in the author’s life, when Brill pulled his backpack off its peg in the shed and took to the trail once more, returning to the woods not as visitor but as a man who felt most at home in the forested mountains of the Appalachians. In the process, he rediscovered—as most hikers do—the centering experience of exploring earth with feet and the healing power of the natural world.

As Far As The Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ Tennessee Press

When David Brill’s now-classic account of his 1979 thru-hike of the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail was released in 1990, it immediately struck a chord with veterans and aspirants of one of the world’s longest continuously marked footpaths. Over the years, the book has continued to sell through multiple printings.\nAs Far as the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker, now in its fifth (thirtieth-anniversary) edition and eighth printing, was recently released by the University of Tennessee Press. The new edition features a new preface on Brill’s 2019 40th-anniversary reunion in Maine with his AT buddies, as well as prefaces to earlier editions and three bonus chapters that bring Brill’s continuing connection with the trail to near the present.\nIn the years following release of As Far as the Eye Can See, first-person accounts of hiking the trail burgeoned into a literary genre, but Brill’s book was among the first to capture the physical and spiritual aspects of the long journey across fourteen states.\nBrill and his fellow hikers, who are all portrayed in the book, were relatively early devotees on a pilgrimage that, within a few decades, would become a popular rite of passage. Indeed, by the end of 1979, a mere 837 people had reported finishing the entire AT route over the trail’s then 42-year history. The total now easily exceeds 20,000.\nBrill credits his trail experiences with inspiring his career as a magazine journalist and book author and providing the theme for much of his subsequent writing on nature and adventure travel. The trail also did much to shape his enduring values and beliefs.\n“Though it took me a while to realize it, the trail had shaped me, had given me a philosophy, had toughened me in some ways, had softened me in others, and taught me lessons I will never forget: lessons on survival, kindness, strength, friendship, courage, perseverance, and the ways of nature,” Brill writes in the book’s final chapter, “Coming Home.” “Those lessons have affected everything I’ve done since.”\nReaders find that Brill’s experiences and observations on the healing power of nature from forty years ago are equally relevant in today’s world.\nThe book’s first edition received widespread critical acclaim. The San Francisco Book Reader wrote: “Evocatively written gems of observation full of native wisdom brimming over with thoughts and exploits…. You read and read again, this book is that rich.” Many other reviewers have commended the book on its honest portrayal of the trail experience and the literary quality of its prose. In its review, The Roanoke Times effused “Thoreau lives!”

Hiking & Camping

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