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Explore the big outdoors in these action-packed animal board books with sliders on every page. This series of board books will inspire a love of nature in even the littlest of animal lovers. With vibrant artwork printed on white board, robust easy-to-use mechanisms for tiny hands and a rhyming text with friendly animal facts, these are the perfect books to captivate curious little explorers time and time again. In this first birds book, there are ostriches running across the plains, penguins diving in the sea, toucans perched on jungle branches and many more birds to discover and bring to life with the moving parts.Other titles in the series include: Countryside, Seaside, Woods, Farm, River, Snow, Jungle and Safari.

A blank journal that captures the beauty of the great outdoors and the spirit of adventure!The cover sports a gorgeous woodcut-style illustration of a vintage camper van making its way through a lush forest. Inside, the pages are lined for easy writing and feature full-color spot illustrations. This journal is sure to spark creativity and wanderlust in journalers and nature lovers around the world.• Great for bullet journaling, note-taking, goal tracking, and list-making; or use as a daily planner, gratitude journal, or travel log!• A great add-on gift or self-purchase for writers, artists, and outdoor enthusiasts• 5 x 7 1/8-inch paperback journal with debossed cover and lay-flat binding• 192 lined pages with full-color illustration throughout

• MUST-HAVE for outdoor and wildlife enthusiasts, art lovers, travelers, and card players alike. • STURDY WOODEN BOX houses 54 gorgeously illustrated playing cards plus 1 intro card, this deck celebrates the great outdoors in style. • HIGH-QUALITY "blue core" which allows players to shuffle the deck over and over again with minimal wear and tear.• ILLUSTRATED elements in the deck depicts nature—the four suits represent growing trees, flowing water, majestic mountains, and the expansive sky. • HANDSOME gift package or self-purchase with a handcrafted feel, these fully illustrated playing cards and wooden keepsake box bring the beauty of the great outdoors to your fingertips!

Explore the big outdoors in these action-packed animal board books with sliders on every page. Published in collaboration with the National Trust, this series of board books will inspire a love of nature in even the littlest of animal lovers. With vibrant artwork printed on white board, robust easy-to-use mechanisms for tiny hands and a rhyming text with friendly animal facts, these are the perfect books to captivate curious little explorers time and time again. In this first snowy animals book, there are geese swimming on the frozen lake, hares bounding through the snow, squirrels scampering up frosty trees and many more creatures to bring to life with the moving parts..Other titles in the series include: Countryside, Seaside, Woods, Farm and River Includes a FREE Nosy Crow Stories Aloud® audiobook! Scan the code, hear the story.

"The Essential Series" presents your trusted guides. 'Puts the world of wilderness navigation in the palm of your hand' - "Adventure West". 'Teaches the essential disciplines of compass and map-reading...but goes beyond the basics with useful, eye-opening advice on how to read nature's highway signs - vegetation bands, wind-whipped ripples in sand or snow, and the positions of the sun and stars' - "Northeast Outdoors".If you're at all unsure of your backwoods direction-finding skills, "The Essential Wilderness Navigator" is the guide you've been looking for. It teaches you how to observe - to see, smell, hear, and sense the details of the environment around you. Then, to supplement your newly enhanced sense of direction, you'll learn to read maps, use a compass, and find your location and route with reference to landmarks. This updated second edition also includes: the basics of global positioning system (GPS) navigation and CD-ROM maps; a full-color section on reading topographical maps; and, navigating in deserts, mountains, and snow. Whether you're planning an extended wilderness trek or a day hike on marked trails, here's how to stay found.

At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long.With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.

Learn how to read the clues and signs of trees with this eye-opening and enthralling guide from Sunday Times-bestselling author Tristan Gooley, pioneer in the art of natural navigationb> Do two trees ever appear identical? No, but why? Every small difference is a clue. Each tree we meet is filled with signs that reveal secrets about the life of that tree and the landscape we stand in. The clues are easy to spot when you know what to look for, but remain invisible to most people.In How to Read a Tree, you'll discover the simple principles that explain the shapes and patterns you can see in trees and what they mean. And you'll learn rare skills that can be applied every time you pass a tree, whether you are in a town or a wilder spot.As the author of the international bestsellers The Walker's Guide and How to Read Water, Tristan Gooley knows how to uncover the phenomena worth looking for. He has been instructing people in the art of reading trees for two decades and this book includes signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.Once you have learned to see these things it is impossible to unsee them. We will never look at a tree the same way again.-----------------'You will never look at a tree in the same way again after reading this mesmerising book. Gooley drops learning as lightly as blossom falls in spring.' - John Lewis-Stempel'Tristan Gooley has done trees the greatest service.' - Isabella Tree'Will undoubtedly leave you with a deeper appreciation of trees...your country walks will never be quite the same again' - Daily Mail

The best-selling guide to growing garden herbs.From the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book introduces the 75 best herbs to grow in your garden and teaches you how to cultivate each one. With 12 easy and inspiring projects and beautiful botanical illustrations, this is part of the best-selling series of Kew Gardener's Guides, now available in paperback. Herbs provide flavour, scent and healing benefits unlike any other plant, and the hand-picked herbs in this book are a living trove of fresh flavours and amazing medicinal remedies.Find out how to grow herbs in beds, pots, borders and window boxes, how to plant and how to propagate and harvest your herbs, as Kew expert Holly Farrell equips you with all you need to create a flourishing herb garden of your very own.Eighty of the most important and exciting herbs are identified, illustrated and their uses explained. This is accompanied by 12 projects which show how to develop a herb garden and use herbs in the most interesting and creative ways, from planting a herb roof to making herbal oils. Herbs can be used as seeds, flowers or leaves; cooked and eaten themselves or used to infuse a dish or drink. They are high-value ingredients for foraged dishes, and must-have crops for the best restaurants as chefs realise that often the only way to capture their elusive flavour is to grow and harvest fresh herbs on their doorstep. With this book these intense flavours can now be a reality for gardeners and home-cooks with any size of garden, from an acre to a window box. Underpinned by the authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the expertise of Holly Farrell, this book combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty. Perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners alike.This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles available: Growing House Plants, Growing Bulbs, Growing Fruit, Growing Orchids, Growing Vegetables, Growing Roses, Growing Trees, Growing Cacti and Succulents, Growing Perennials, Growing Shrubs, Growing Alpines.

Featuring striking scenes of morning and night skies, flowing streams, lush forests, and magnificent mountains, this pair of notebooks celebrates the immense beauty of the great outdoors. With tactile embossed covers, lined and unlined pages, and packaged with a twine tie, these eye-catching notebooks will inspire journalers, nature lovers, and travelers to document their adventures.

Stationery that captures the spirit of adventure and the immense beauty of the great outdoors!These cards feature stunning woodcut-style illustrations depicting a range of natural landscapes, from luscious woodland forests, stunning mountain waterfalls, and gorgeous wildflower fields to golden cactus-filled deserts and dreamy beaches with swaying palm trees.• Use your correspondence to share your love of Earth's beauty! Whether you like hiking, camping, fishing, RVing, or traveling to national parks, these cards will remind you of your favorite outdoor pastimes.• These cards work for all occasions-or you can use them as unique wall art!• A great add-on gift or self-purchase for writers, artists, and outdoor enthusiasts• 20 flat cards (10 designs repeating twice), 20 envelopes, full-color illustrations throughout

23 vibrant, Scandi-style knitted garments for the whole family – perfect for outdoor adventures in cold climates!Knitted with Norwegian and Icelandic wool fibres to repel water and cold, and featuring designs and colours inspired by the wild north of Norway, this is the ultimate knitting book for outdoor adventurers.The 23 timeless designs feature polar bears, the Arctic sun, Hopi dreamcatchers, snowflakes, sled dogs and falling snow, all inspired by the Scandinavian climate and indigenous people of best-selling author Linka Neumann’s native Norway. Choose from:12 adult sweaters and cardigans that can be adapted with optional raglan sleeves, roll-necks and hoods, in sizes small to XXL;6 matching children’s sweaters for kids aged 1 to 10 years old;3 cozy beanie hats;2 sets of frostproof mittens.The patterns are suitable for confident knitters, and each contains full written instructions and colourwork charts. Multiple colourways are shown to inspire your own yarn choices, and advice is given on how to measure yourself correctly to select the right size.Popular knitting designer Linka is dedicated to creating anti-fast fashion sweaters that not only look beautiful, but are robust enough to withstand the toughest of weather. Her wilderness sweaters have kept adventurers warm on trips through forests and up mountains – including a trek to Mount Everest... But even if your own expeditions are a little lower altitude in ambition, you can create your own bespoke garments to last you a lifetime of adventures.A translation of the latest title by best-selling Norwegian knitting author Linka Neumann.

Outdoor painting tips and more from the best landscape painters working today. Many painters enjoy working outdoors when the weather is good, but they also need to know how to deal with it when the weather changes! This book includes the best instruction on the special challenges of painting landscapes outdoors from a variety of the best plein-air artists working today in all major media—oil, pastel, watercolour, acrylic, and gouache. It includes: - Materials, site selection, and practical tips - Values, shapes, composition, colour, and elements of landscape painting - Bringing outdoor studies back into the studio - Complete start-to-finish demonstrations - Hundreds of gorgeous images - A wealth of knowledge from a variety of instructors

As someone who has hiked over 10,000 miles of trails and spent more than 400 nights under the stars, Iron Tazz is dedicated to inspiring the next generation to discover the skills they need to be prepared and connected in the wild. In The Handbook of Forgotten Skills... Outdoors, he shares classic wilderness skills that have been forgotten by many as our world has gotten more high-tech and less back country.Fully-illustrated chapters feature timeless fun in the wild, including:- Purifying wild water- Setting up camp- Identifying animal scat- Whittling and knife safety - Building a campfire- Using a CompassAnd much more!Be ready, stay safe and enjoy the journey that unfolds with easy-to-follow steps that open up a world of timeless, outdoor adventures.Also Available:The Handbook of Forgotten Skills

Discover the science of the natural world - on your doorstep! Lakes and ponds are found at all corners of the planet, from deserts to rainforests. But, did you know, the lakes and ponds near you are also brimming with life? This book uncovers the science and wonders of life in the water.The Great Outdoors aims to get kids looking at nature on their doorstep. Instead of larger biomes, the series looks at places children are most likely to have access to, such as the local park, their back garden, or a beach. It encourages them to observe the wildlife and the ecosystems at work within these places, while taking in broader concepts. Each volume contains a minimum of 6 activities, which vary from observation to crafts, suitable for ages 7+.

Follow Peter as he walks through the woods, plants flowers and visits the farmyard, learning all about the natural world as he goes. This fun-filled sticker book has over 250 stickers!Packed full of everyone's favourite woodland friends, activities, games and stickers, this book is perfect to use at anytime - from holidays to rainy days, this book will keep little paws busy for hours!Check out the other titles in our Peter Rabbit activity books range: Hop, Skip and Stick Activity BookHoppy Holiday Sticker Activity BookChristmas Fun Sticker Activity Book

A bright and bold novelty format with a different slide and pull tab on every spread.It's a beautiful day in Moominvalley and Moomin is going on an adventure! He is determined to find his best friend Snufkin. Could he be hiding up in the trees, or down by the lake, or inside a very dark cave?Help Moomin explore the great outdoors in this delightful and interactive board book.Discover more Moomin adventures:The Very BIG Moominhouse Lift-the-Flap BookMoomin and the Windy DayMoomin's Pancake Picnic Peep-InsideMoomin's Seek and Find Finger-Trail BookMoomin's Touch and Feel Playbook

Join Peter Rabbit and his sisters as they help tidy-up the forest, in this sweet lift-the-flap adventure!Peter Rabbit and his sisters wake up to discover a storm has blown through their forest! When they go outside they soon realise everyone's things are missing and in all the wrong places and someone has to find and return all of the missing items to their rightful place!Will Peter and his sisters be able to tidy-up the forest before Mrs. Rabbit returns from the market?This brand new story has lots of fun flaps for little hands to lift as they help return all the missing items to their rightful forest friends. With a gentle narrative and beautiful forest setting, this is the perfect tale to encourage little ones to help their loved ones.Discover more Peter Rabbit lift-the-flap stories:Peter Rabbit: The Bedtime Bunny HuntPeter Rabbit: The Christmas Present HuntPeter Rabbit: The Great Big Easter Egg Hunt

A picturesque peninsula with 298 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, state parks, forests, and cozy inns, Door County is one of the Midwest's prime tourist attractions. Magill Weber explores the many recreational opportunities available to visitors, including secret spots known only to locals and longtime seasonal residents. Wisconsin native Janet Mrazek contributes 125 detailed and easy-to-follow maps. With suggestions of more than 150 scenic hikes, biking and paddling routes, end-of-the-road beaches, lighthouses, and wildlife-watching sites, and descriptions of the local flora and fauna, Door County Outdoors is the ultimate guide for active travelers and nature enthusiasts.

For nearly 40 years, Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to First Aid and Medical Emergencies has been the take-along manual of choice for anyone venturing into the mountains, forest, desert, or on water. This essential guide provides highly illustrated, easy-to-follow guidance on immediate stabilization and treatment of persons with virtually any possible medical problem-designed for on-the-spot use when higher-level medical care is not accessible. Written by experts in outdoor medicine, this updated edition helps you manage any situation until medical personnel can take over.