Books from Patagonia
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Swell: Sailing the Pacific in Search of Surf and Self
By Liz ClarkSailing Ten Years and 20,000 Miles In Search of Surf and Self
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Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete
By Scott Johnston, Steve HouseInner voicesays, “Merde .. . ” A failure of resources. This is not so much a failureas a choice, andnot necessarilya poor choice. Legion are those who might have theskilland stamina toclimb great mountains, or ride the Tour deFrance ...
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Surf Is Where You Find It
By Gerry LopezAs soon as wepulled up, we could see a pretty good set rolling throughat Brown's, and Grubby immediately said, “That's our spot!I went out with you guys at your place, nowyou have come outto mine.” Well we couldn't argue with that and ...
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Working to Restore: Why We Do Business in the Regenerative Era
By Esha ChhabraDuring this time of unprecedented environmental, cultural, and financial global disruption, can business save the world? After decades of extraction of human and environmental resources and years of attempts to...
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Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
By Mark KurlanskyA tribute to a magnificent species whose cycles of life are entwined with every aspect of nature -- freshwater, saltwater, and land -- and whose survival is inextricably tied to the survival of the planet.
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Simple Fly Fishing: Techniques for Tenkara and Rod and Reel
By Yvon Chouinard, Craig Mathews, Mauro MazzoThis book reveals that the best way to catch trout is simply, with a rod and a fly and not much else. The wisdom in this book comes from a simpler time, when the premise was: the more you know, the less you need.
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The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre
By Kelly CordesPatagonia’s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges.
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The Do Boys: 52 Stories of Adventure
By Rick RidgewayAt the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small ...
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Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs
Filled with hand-drawn climbing topos, photos, narrative description, side notes and 40 extra climbs of note in each of the eight geographical regions. This is the guide for every climber’s bookshelf.
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The Wolverine Way
By Douglas ChadwickThe Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces that threaten its future, engagingly told by Douglas Chadwick, who volunteered with the Glacier Wolverine Project.
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Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, In the Woods and at the Table
By Dylan TomineThe deeply personal story of a father learning to share his love of nature with his children, not through the indoor lens of words or pictures, but directly, palpably, by exploring the natural world as they forage, cook and eat from the ...
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Patagonia Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement
By Nora Gallagher, Lisa MyersThis is the Beyond Coal campaign, a peoplepowered, opensource network of more than 100 organizations that have ... as an attorney based in Illinois, where he had found himself at ground zero in what we would later call the coal rush.
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Beyond the Mountain
By Steve HouseSteve is an accomplished and spellbinding storyteller in the tradition of Maurice Herzog and Lionel Terray. Beyond the Mountain is a gripping read destined to be a mountain classic. And it
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Paddling North
By Audrey SutherlandPaddling North is a compilation of Sutherland’s first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway. With illustrations and the author’s recipes.
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The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains
By Barry BlanchardFrom each he learns lessons that only nature and extreme endeavor can teach. This is the story of the culture of climbing in the days of punk rock and rock ‘n’ roll, accompanied by the rhythm of adrenaline and the arrogance of youth.
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Still Sideways: Getting My Stoke Back After Losing My Sight
By Devon RaneyA must-read for any mid-life adventurer,Still Sideways intersperses a gripping narrative of Devon's incredible decade and flashbacks of formative experiences from his youth and young adulthood with humor, candor, and authenticity.
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Surf Is Where You Find It
By Gerry LopezConveyed in Gerry's unique voice, augmented with photos from his personal collection, this book is a classic for surf enthusiasts everywhere.
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The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
By Yvon Chouinard, Vincent StanleyWe refer to nature as our “environment,”as though nature were hereto wrap itself around us. We refer toourselvesas “stewards,”as though God had ordained usto be nature's keeper, abigkey danglingfrom our neck, awhite towel slung over ...
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Was It Worth It?
By Doug Peacock"In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, bestselling author Doug Peacock--loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey--reflects on a life lived in the wild, reflecting on the question many ask in their ...
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UNEXPECTED: 30 Years of Patagonia Catalog Photography
By Jane SievertThis is their compendium of the 100-plus most compelling photos Patagonia has published – and a celebration of wilderness and outdoor-sport photography as an art and a practice.