National Outdoor Book Awards
Sponsored by the NOBA Foundation, the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education, and Idaho State University, The National Outdoor Book Awards recognize outstanding achievement in outdoor writing and publishing.

2005

Outdoor Literature Category
Savage Summit:  The True Stories of the First Five Women who climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain, by Jennifer Jordan

Honorable Mention:
At the Mercy of the River:  An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness, by Peter Stark

History/Biography Category
Journey of a Hope Merchant:  From Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing, by Neal Petersen with William P. Baldwin and Patty Fulcher

Honorable Mention:
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, by Arlene Blum

Natural History Literature
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, by Alan Burdick

Design & Artistic Merit Category

Mountain Ranges of Colorado.  Photographed and written by John Fielder

Nature & the Environment Category
Sea Turtles:  A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behavior and Conservation, by James R. Spotila

Children's Category
The Little Green Island With a Little Red House:  A Book of Colors and Critters, by Sharon Lovejoy

Honorable Mention:
The Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert

Nature Guidebook Category
Snakes of the Southeast, by Whit Gibbons and Mike Dorcas

Honorable Mention:
Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves, by Laura and William Riley

Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
Top Trails Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, by Andrew Dean Nystrom

Honorable Mentions:
Idaho's Salmon River: A River Runner's Guide to the River of No Return, by Eric J. Newell and Allison J. Newell
Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide, by Roxanna Brook and Jared McMillen

Instructional Category
Basic Kayaking:  All the Skills and Gear You Need to Get Started, by Wayne Dickert and Jon Rounds
Glacier Mountaineering:  An Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue, by Andy Tyson

Classic
Life-time Achievement Recognition.  Farley Mowat for Sea of Slaughter, Never Cry Wolf and other works.


2004

Outdoor Literature Category
Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age, by Ted Kerasote
Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure, by Maria Coffey

Honorable Mention:
A Blistered Kind of Love, by Angela and Duffy Ballard

History/Biography Category
Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering, by Andy Selters

Design & Artistic Merit Category
Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky.  Photography by Art Wolfe.  Essays by Art Davidson
The Mountains Know Arizona.  Photographs by Michael Collier.  Text by Rose Houk.  Designed by Mary Winkelman Velgos.

Nature & the Environment Category
The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty, by Kenneth Libbrecht.  Photography by Patricia Rasmussen.

Children's Category
Whose Garden Is It?  By Mary Ann Hoberman.  Illustrated by Jane Dyer

Nature Guidebook Category
Dragonflies of the North Woods, by Kurt Mead

Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
100 Classic Hikes in Oregon, by Douglas Lorain

Instructional Category
Rock Climbing: Mastering the Basic Skills, by Craig Luebben

Classic
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau


2003

Outdoor Literature Category
The Beckoning Silence, by Joe Simpson

History/Biography Category
Southern Exposure:  A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island, by Chris Duff

Honorable Mention:
Women on High: Pioneers of Mountaineering, by Rebecca A. Brown

Design & Artistic Merit Category
First Light: Acadia National Park and Maine's Mount Desert Island.  Photography by Tom Blagden, Jr.  Text by Charles R. Tyson, Jr.

Nature & the Environment Category
Ice Island: Expedition to Antarctica's Largest Iceberg, by Gregory S. Stone

Children's Category
Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery, by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie.  By Gloria Whelan.  Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.

Nature Guidebook Category
Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species, by Mark Elbroch

Honorable Mention:
The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific, by Milton S. Love, Mary Yoklavich, and Lyman Thorsteinson.

Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park, by Marc J. Soares

Honorable Mentions:
100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest: Eastern Washington, Northern Rockies, Wallowas, by Rich Landers and the Spokane Mountaineers.
Trekking Washington, by Mike Woodmansee

Instructional Category
Basic Canoeing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started, by Jon Rounds and Wayne Dickert

Classic Category
Alone, by Richard E. Byrd


2002

Outdoor Literature Category

Rowing to Latitude by Jill Fredston

History/Biography Category
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism by Char Miller

Honorable Mention:
Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,200 Mile Odyssey Among the Inuit by Jonathan Waterman
Design & Artistic Merit Category
Wilder Mississippi,  Photographs by Stephen Kirkpatrick.  Text by Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick
Honorable Mention:
The Southwest's Contrary Land: Forever Changing Between Four Corners and the Sea of Cortes by Craig Childs
Nature & the Environment Category
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History by Ted Steinberg
Honorable Mentions:
Listening to Whales:  What the Orcas Have Taught Us by Alexandra Morton
The Southwest Inside Out: An Illustrated Guide to the Land and It's History by Thomas Wiewandt and Maureen Wilks
Children's Category
Wild Wings: Poems for Young People by Jane Yolen.  Photographs by Jason Stemple
Honorable Mention:
Ladybugs: Red, Fiery and Bright by Mia Posada
Nature Guidebook Category
Lichens of North America by Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff
Honorable Mention:
Bird Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species by Mark Elbroch and Eleanor Marks
Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
Hiking the Sierra Nevada by John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil
Honorable Mention:
Alaska: A Climbing Guide by Michael Wood and Colby Coombs
Instructional Category
The Complete Sea Kayaker's Handbook by Shelley Johnson
Honorable Mention:
The Mountain Traveller's Handbook by Paul Deegan
Classic Category
Honorable Mention only:
Backwoods Ethics: A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking by Laura and Guy Waterman

2001

Outdoor Literature Category
Where the Pavement Ends:  One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China and Vietnam by Erika Warmbrunn

History/Biography Category
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster
Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde by Brad Dimock

Design & Artistic Merit Category
The Living Wild.  Photography by Art Wolfe

Nature & the Environment Category
Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank  by Andrew Beattie and Paul Ehrlich

Honorable Mentions:
For Love of Wildness:  The Journal of a U.S. Game Management Agent.  By Terry Grosz
Pacific Light: Images of the Monterey Peninsula.  By Douglas Steakley.  Poetry by Ric Masten
Children's Category
What Does the Sky Say?   By Nancy White Carlstrom.  Illustrated by Tim Ladwig
Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest. Written and illustrated by Bruce Hiscock

Nature Guidebook Category
Butterflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Western North America.  By Jeffrey Glassberg

Honorable Mention:
The Raptor Almanac:  A Comprehensive Guide to Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Vultures.  By Scott Weidensaul
Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List.  By Mark Kroese
Honorable Mentions:
Hike America Virginia: An Atlas of Virginia's Greatest Hiking Adventures. By Bill & Mary Burnham
101 Hikes in Northern California: Exploring Mountains, Valleys, and Seashore.  By Matt Heid
Instructional Category
The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide.  By Tom Rosenbauer

Classic Category
Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash


2000

Outdoor Literature Category
On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak by Chris Duff

History/Biography Category
The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory by Peter and Leni Gillman

Design & Artistic Merit Category
Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography Photography by Bradford Washburn.  Edited and Compiled by Antony Decaneas

Nature & the Environment Category
Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden by Terry Grosz
Penguin Planet: Their World, Our World by Kevin Schafer

Children's Category
Blueberry Shoe by Ann Dixon.  Illustrations by Evon Zerbetz
Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish by Twig C. George

Nature Guidebook Category
Guide to Marine Mammals & Turtles of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico by Kate Wynne and Malia Schwartz

Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
Guide to Sea Kayaking Central and Northern California by Roger Schumann and Jan Shriner

Honorable Mention:
Montana and Idaho's Continental Divide Trail by Lynna Howard 
Instructional Category
The National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide by Mark Harvey

Classic Category
A Sand County Almanac: A Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold


1999

Outdoor Literature Category
The Lost River:  A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water By Richard Bangs

History/Biography Category
One Man's Wilderness:  An Alaskan Odyssey.  By Sam Keith from the journals of Richard Proenneke

Design & Artistic Merit Category
Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail.  By Leonard Adkins

Honorable Mention:
Spotted Bear: A Rocky Mountain Folktale  By Hanneke Ippisch. Illustrated by Hedvig Rappe-Flowers
Nature & the Environment Category
Washington's Mount Rainier National Park: A Centennial Celebration.  By Tim McNulty
Islands of Hope:  Lessons from North America's Great Wildlife Sanctuaries  By Phillip Manning

Children's Category
The Inuksuk Book  Text and illustrations by Mary Wallace

Nature Guidebook Category
Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains: A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species  By James Halfpenny, Ph.D.

Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
Trout Unlimited's Guide to America's 100 Best Trout Streams  By John Ross

Honorable Mention:
Vermont and New Hampshire Winter Trails  By Marty Basch
Instructional Category
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast and High  By Mark F. Twight and James Martin

Classic Category
Cache Lake Country:  Life in the North Woods  By John J. Rowlands


1998

Outdoor Literature Category
Postcards from the Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child by Greg Child

History/Biography Category
The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom by Vince Welch, Cort Conley, and Brad Dimock

Design & Artistic Merit Category
Track of the Tiger Edited by Maurice Hornocker

Honorable Mention:
100 Classic Hikes in Washington by Ira Spring and Harvey Manning
Nature & the Environment Category
The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource by Tim Palmer
Honorable Mention:
The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack by David Mech
Nature Guidebook Category
A Field Guide to Snakes of Florida by Alan Tennant
Honorable Mention:
Colorado Nature Almanac by Stephen R. Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman
Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
Colorado's Continental Divide Trail by Tom Lorang Jones

Instructional Category
Knots and Ropes for Climbers by Duane Raleigh

Classic Category
Two in the Far North by Margaret Murie
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills Edited by Don Graydon and Kurt Hanson


1997

Outdoor Literature Category
Landscapes of the Interior by Don Gayton

Honorable Mention:
The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World  Edited by Scott Olsen and Scott Cairns
Outdoor Education Category
Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids By Laura Erickson

Design & Artistic Merit Category

Honorable Mention:
The Rocky Mountain Foods Cookbook Written and illustrated by Darcy Williamson
Guidebook Category
Canoe Country Flora by Mark Stensaas

Instructional Category
Ragged Mountain Press Guide to Outdoor Sports By Jonathan and Roseann Hanson

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