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Explore Nature with These Outdoor Themed Book Recommendations

Book Reveiws, Lifestyle / By Amy McCaffree

Enjoy one of these books with local or regional significance while out on your next summertime adventure. The Spokane River (2018) edited by Paul Lindholdt: A newly-published collection of essays and poems on the environment—with reflections from 28 contributors—including Jess Walter, Tod Marshall, Sherman Alexie, Jerry White (Spokane Riverkeeper), Beatrice Lackaff (OTO writer), and many […]

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4 Books for Outdoor Families

Columns, Outdoor Family / By Amy McCaffree

Books are one of my few obsessions. Re-reading a great book feels like returning home as I revisit that author’s ideas, insights, experiences, encouragement, or advice. These books inspire me in my resolve to better help my outdoor family be the best version of us—determined adventurers; curious explorers; fun-loving recreationists; caring, informed, and compassionate conservationists.

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Book Reviews March 2010

Magazine Article / By Out There Outdoors

Rowing The Atlantic: Lessons Learned On The Open Ocean Roz Savage Simon & Schuster, 2009, 242 pages Some have criticized Rowing the Atlantic for not being a true adventure story. After all Savage is not the first person to row the Atlantic. She is not even the first person to row it solo. But if

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Book Reviews: August 2008

Book Reveiws, Magazine Article / By Jon Jonckers

From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at The Tour de France David Walsh Ballantine Books, 2007, 334 pages Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong: doper. Deposed 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis: doper. The bulk of the professional peloton: dopers. Such is the impression readers will likely take from

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