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The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia

Name: The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia
Author: Vin T. Sparano
ISBN: 9780312267223

by Vin T. Sparano

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Overview

This complete and comprehensive guide is the ultimate one-volume library for anyone interested in the outdoors. To broaden the scope of this established reference work, Vin T. Sparano, Editor Emeritus and Senior Field Editor of Outdoor Life, has compiled brand-new chapters and sections on survival, all-terrain vehicles, and watersports (including kayaking, water skiing, and personal watercraft). He has also included new information on GPS (Global Positioning System) and increased focus on such sections as fly fishing, sporting clays, backpacking, nutrition, and new first-aid breakthroughs in outdoor emergencies. With nearly 400 new photographs and 100 drawings added to the already more than 1300 illustrations, Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia illustrates the newest technology and the latest trends in the outdoors.

Revised and greatly expanded third edition. Truly a whole outdoors library in one volume.

About the Author, Vin T. Sparano

Vin T. Sparano has been an outdoor editor and writer for more than thirty-five years. He is Editor Emeritus and Senior Field Editor of Outdoor Life, having served as editor-in-chief for five years. He lives with his wife, Betty, in Barnegat Light, New Jersey.

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There may be a new publisher, hundreds of new photos and drawings, and new sections on survival, watersports, and all-terrain vehicles, but this book retains its basic format and its editor, which have served it well for three previous editions. Sparano's long experience as an outdoor writer and as editor of Outdoor Life magazine is especially evident in the detailed hunting and fishing chapters. Besides these, the 11 chapters include game animals and birds, game fish, camping, survival, boating, archery, dogs, first aid, and outdoor information sources. Obviously, there are many books on each of these topics, but for a broad introduction to them all at once, with numerous clear illustrations, this continues to be a fine choice. Recommended for smaller collections as a stand-alone work, this would also serve most libraries well as an introduction and stimulus to further reading in more specialized outdoor sources.--Roland C. Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale