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Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia: Camping, Fishing, Hunting, Boating, Wilderness Survival, First Aid
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Product Description INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 GOLD Winner for Best Sports BookThe ultimate do-it-yourself guide for the outdoors enthusiast, completely updated for today's outdoorsman and now in full color. This latest (fifth) edition of the award-winning Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia will again prove to be the most effective outdoor skills instruction book ever published. This monumental guide to the outdoors is produced for the first time in full color, featuring more than 1,300 photographs and 1,000 diagrams and illustrations. Totally revised and updated, this indispensable resource offers in-depth coverage of hunting, shooting, fishing, camping, boating, survival, first aid, bowhunting, and species profiles of game animals, birds, fish, and sporting dogs. This book is a must-have reference guide for both novice and experienced sportsmen as well as any person planning to learn outdoor skills. To broaden the scope of this established reference work, author Vin T. Sparano has compiled brand-new sections on wilderness survival, all-terrain vehicles, and boating. He has included new information on GPS and increased focus on specialty sections such as flyfishing, sporting clays, backpacking, nutrition, and first-aid breakthroughs for outdoors emergencies. Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia clearly explains and illustrates the latest technologies and trends in the outdoors. Review “This is the ultimate reference guide for anyone, of any age or gender, who wants to spend time in the great outdoors. The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia is just that—complete! I am hard pressed to think of a subject it doesn't cover. If you spend any time in the outdoors or know someone who does, this book will be hugely beneficial on many levels. Direct and to the point, easy to read and understand, sprinkled with colorful photographs and clear illustrations, this manual covers it all.” -The Outdoor Blogger Network “This recently updated book has been my longtime favorite outdoor go-to book for the past 40 years for information about all things outdoors, including camping, fishing, hunting, guns, boating, wilderness survival, first aid and fish identification. My good friend and former editor, Vin Sparano of Outdoor Life magazine, has carefully researched this 600-plus-page book that has most everything you need to know or ever have wondered about to help you become a premier outdoorsman.” -Great Days Outdoors “Vin Sparano has done a terrific and thorough job of updating the venerable Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia, an award-winning reference first published in 1972. This old-school, large-format doorstop (640 pages) will light up your day, reminding you (if you're old enough) of a time when fishing, hunting, dog-training, target-shooting, camping, and canoeing were things we all did; when knowing knots, tracks, worm rigs, and shot patterns was a common interest. This new edition of the Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia is warm with tribal knowledge of venerable outdoors skills and horse sense that will pique your interest in getting outdoors for any season. With the authority of a lifetime spent outdoors, Sparano’s engaging text and excellent illustrations pull these subjects together in perfect balance between the important task of keeping traditional knowledge alive and our need to absorb worthwhile new changes in tackle, firearms, optics, camping gear, and high-tech tools. And Rizzoli has outdone itself with the range and quality of illustration. The knowledge in these pages begs to be used, and speaks without fanfare to a once common love of traditional outdoor pursuits.” - Gray’s Sporting Journal “ The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia is no ordinary book. It’s more of a full color how-to outdoor guide covering every aspect of the outdoors, including hunting and shooting, sweet and saltwater fishing and boating and camping. Other sections include game animals and birds, gamefish and how to catch and cook them. Ar
