The Great Outdoors! May 2025

 

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1. The High Sierra: a love story

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Author:
Robinson, Kim Stanley
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5 stars
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13 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
917.944 ROBIN
Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
917.944 ROBIN
Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Non-Fiction
917.944 ROBIN
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A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).--

2. The hiking book from hell

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Author:
Kalvø, Are
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
796.502 KALVO
Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
796.502 KALVO
Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
796.502 KALVO
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"Jim Gaffigan meets Cheryl Strayed in this blisteringly funny memoir about the call of the wild, from one of Scandinavia's biggest comedians. Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends ... to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he's the only person...

3. Where the deer and the antelope play: the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside

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Author:
Offerman, Nick, 1970-
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
917.3 OFFER
Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction
917.3 OFFER
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
917.3 OFFER
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With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.