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National Outdoor Book Awards
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The Prize
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The
National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) is one of the outdoor world's largest and most prestigious book award programs. Click
here for our index and the current award winners.
The
purpose of the Awards is to recognize and encourage outstanding writing and publishing
for books relating to the outdoors, nature, the environment. The
National Outdoor Book Awards
are administered by a non-profit, educational institution. |
Outdoor Classics Category: Books nominated for this award should be full
length works related to outdoor adventure activities or nature and should be a
work of unusual significance and lasting value in the outdoor field. The book
must be in print.
| Award Year |
Title and Author(s) |
| 2004 |
 Sea of Slaughter
by Farley Mowat
This year, with the submission
of Sea of Slaughter by Stackpole Books, the judges decided to take
the opportunity to honor Farley Mowat for a lifetime of work of writing
about the outdoors. Mowat's most well known, and perhaps most far reaching,
book is Never Cry Wolf. First written in 1964, Never Cry Wolf
is often credited with helping change the public's image of wolves as wanton
killers. Now several decades later, the wolf is seen correctly as an
integral part of the wild environment, contributing to the balance between
prey and predator. In Sea of Slaughter,
Mowat centers on the marine environment of the North Atlantic coast from
Labrador to Cape Cod. Backed up by extensive research, he documents the years of human
exploitation and the resulting decimation of coastal sea life. At the end
of the book, Mowat offers one glimmer of hope. He sees small signs that we
are making progress towards protecting sea life. "We may succeed," he
writes "in making man humane... at last. And then the Sea of Slaughter
may again become a Seat of Life."
Let us hope that Mowat's wish may some day come to pass |
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| 2004 |
 Walden:
A Fully Annotated Edition
by Henry David Thoreau and edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer
Knowingly and unknowingly,
many of the reasons that people offer these days why they participate in
outdoor activities can be traced to the pages of Walden. "Simplicity,
simplicity, simplicity," wrote Thoreau. Indeed, in part, we enjoy outdoor
activities because they allow us to get away from the rush of modern society
and simplify our lives — even if it is just for a few days. For all its
impact on the literary and outdoor worlds, however, Walden is not an
easy book to read. That's why this new annotated version, edited by Thoreau
scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, is so invaluable. Cramer's explanatory notes
accompanying Thoreau's text help readers understand the richness of his
writing — and why Walden is truly a great work of art. |
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Amazon CA |
| 2003 |
Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard E. Byrd
Alone is the story of Richard Byrd's six months of isolation in a remote
weather station in Antarctica in 1933. The lack of companionship, coupled
with the long, black days of the interminable polar winter, extract a mental
and physical toll from Byrd. Yet there is something else, some other
sinister element at the root of the explorer's deteriorating condition. Almost before it is too late, Byrd discovers that he has been slowly
poisoned by a carbon monoxide leak from a defective stove installation. |
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| 2001 |
Wilderness and the American Mind: 4th Edition by Roderick Nash
This groundbreaking book, first
published in 1967, is Roderick Nash's classic study of American attitudes
toward wilderness. Beginning with the Old World's roots of opinion and
reaching through the early twenty-first century, it ties together disparate
elements of philosophy, history, politics, and popular attitudes into a
concurrent and understandable whole. Scholarly and perceptive, Wilderness
and the American Mind numbers among the great works on the outdoors. |
| Amazon US |
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Amazon CA |
| 2000 |
 A Sand County Almanac: Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
What can be said of Sand County Almanac? It is simply one of the
great works of nature literature and from it has sprung the environmental
movement. This special edition of Sand County Almanac, published by
the original publisher, is a tribute to Leopold, commemorating the
one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. It was over 50 years ago that the
book was first published, but his words and insights are as fresh as ever. |
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| 1999 |
Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods by John J. Rowlands
This book, first published in 1947,
carries the reader back to an earlier, simpler time in the twentieth
century. It's about John Rowland's life on Cache Lake, a lake located in
forests of northern Ontario reached only by canoe. Rowlands writes of the
seasons, the wildlife, and his explorations with nearby northwoods neighbors
including a Cree Indian chief and an artist. The book is interspersed with
descriptions and drawings of Rowland's hand-made backwoods inventions and
woodcraft projects of all manner and shape. Full of a down-to-earth
eloquence and commonsensical backcountry wisdom, it's a cozy and
heartwarming book to curl up with. |
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| 1998 |
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills by Don Graydon and Kurt Hanson
Freedom of the Hills is the
classic English-language text on mountaineering and the best selling
climbing instruction book of all time. First published in 1960 and now on
its sixth edition, this authoritative and expansive book has evolved with
the times, while maintaining its high and exacting standards. It is an
essential part of any outdoor library. |
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Amazon CA |
 Two in the Far North by Margaret Murie
This book, first written in the 1950s
and still in print, is authored by the grand dame of the wilderness
movement, Margaret Murie. Margaret has helped generations of men and women
understand the need to preserve wild landscapes. In Two in the Far North,
she describes her life in Alaska: her growing up in Anchorage and her
adventurous trips into the Alaska wilderness with her husband and biologist,
Olaus. It is a wonderful read and a true American wilderness classic. |
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Honorable Mentions
The National Outdoor Book Award Categories
This is a non-profit, educational program. The winners are chosen by a panel
of judges consisting of respected outdoor columnists, authors, educators, and
book reviewers from throughout the country. In early November, the NOBA committee announces the winners of the nine
categories that make up the awards program plus a set of books that achieved
honorable mentions. The NOBA awards are given in nine different
categories.
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If
you like this list of outdoor award winners, you may enjoy these additional
lists of award winning books on mountaineering. Check out the winners (and
finalists) of the following awards:
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