The following titles have won the National Outdoor Book Awards:
Outdoor Literature (two winners):
Outdoor Literature (two winners):
- Blue Horizons: Dispatches from Distant Seas by Beth A. Leonard (International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 9780071479585). "A beautifully written series of vignettes about life and the sea."
- Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska by Lou Ureneck (St. Martin's, 9780312371517). "A realistic and heartwarming story of a father and his son."
- The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River by Brad Dimock (Fretwater Press, 9781892327697). "An absorbing portrait of . . . a legendary Colorado River boatman."
- Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters by James M. Tabor (Norton, 9780393061741). "Sheds new light on the tragedy" that led to the deaths of seven climbers on Mt. McKinley in 1967.
- Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place by Robert Michael Pyle (Houghton Mifflin, 978039582812). "A lovely meditation on one's own backyard."
- Condors in Canyon Country: The Return of the California Condor to the Grand Canyon Region by Sophie A. H. Osborn (Grand Canyon Association, 9780938216988). "The perfect vehicle to celebrate this environmental success story."
- White Paradise: Journeys to the North Pole by Francis Latreille (Abrams, 9780810930940). "Unveils the Arctic hinterlands like no other."
- Yosemite in the Sixties, photographs by Glen Denny, essays by Kevin Starr, Steve Roper and Glen Denny (Patagonia and T. Adler Books, 0979064909). "Yosemite in the golden age."
- Arctic Wings: Birds of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge edited by Stephen Brown (The Mountaineers Books, 0898869765). A "stylish, impressively designed book."
- Peak by Roland Smith (Harcourt, 9780152024178). "A fast-paced story."
- Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon by Tom Martin and Duwain Whitis (Vishnu Temple Press, 9780977674985). "A state-of-the-art river guide."
- The Complete Mountain Biking Manual by Tim Brink (Ragged Mountain Press, 9780071493901). "Colorful, comprehensive and competently written."
- Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide by Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner and Miguel Lentino (Yale University Press, 9780300108620). "A tour de force."
- A Natural History of North American Trees by Donald Culross Peattie (Houghton Mifflin, 9780618799046). "The classical work on trees."
- Connecticut Walk Book: The Guide to the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails of Western Connecticut edited Ann T. Colson (Connecticut Forest and Park Association, 0961905263). "Among the top tier of long-standing, tried-and-true guidebooks."