Master List: National Outdoor Book Awards

	Master List of Past Winners.
. Thanks to dedicated volunteer, Georgi Baird, we now have several PDF files with past NOBA winners ordered by category, year, author and title. The master list immediately below is ordered by category and year. Click on the year for a complete citation and review of the book. Master lists ordered by author, title and other combinations are found here: Links & More Information.

Title	Winning Year	Credits	Publisher
CHILDREN'S CATEGORY
The Inuksuk Book	1999	Text and illustrations by Mary Wallace.	Greey de Pencier Books (Owl Books)
Blueberry Shoe	2000	By Ann Dixon. Illustrations by Evon Zerbetz.	Alaska Northwest Books
Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish	2000	By Twig C. George.	Millbrook Press
Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest	2001	Written and illustrated by Bruce Hiscock.	Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, Pennsylvania
What Does the Sky Say?	2001	By Nancy White Carlstrom. Illustrated by Tim Ladwig.	Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ladybugs: Red, Fiery and Bright	2002	By Mia Posada.	Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis
Wild Wings: Poems for Young People	2002	By Jane Yolen. Photographs by Jason Stemple.	Wordsong and Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, PA
Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery	2003	By Ellen Stoll Walsh.	Hartcourt, Inc., New York
Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie	2003	By Gloria Whelan. Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.	Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI
Whose Garden Is It?	2004	By Mary Ann Hoberman. Illustrated by Jane Dyer.	Harcourt, New York
The Leaf Man	2005	By Lois Ehlert.	Harcourt, New York
The Little Green Island With a Little Red House: A Book of Colors and Critters	2005	By Sharon Lovejoy.	Down East Books, Rockport, ME
Gaia Girls Enter the Earth	2006	By Lee Welles.	Daisyworld Press, Corning, NY
Kelly of Hazel Ridge	2006	Text by Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuysen. Illustrations by Gijsbert van Frankenhuysen.	Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI
Peak	2007	Roland Smith	Harcourt
DESIGN AND ARTISTIC MERIT CATEGORY
The Rocky Mountain Foods Cookbook	1997	Written and illustrated by Darcy Williamson, cover art by Larry Milligan, design by Teresa Sales.	Caxton Press
100 Classic Hikes in Washington	1998	By Ira Spring and Harvey Manning. Jennifer Shontz, Graphic Coordinator. Marge Mueller, Cartography.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle.
Track of the Tiger	1998	Edited by Maurice Hornocker. Andy Lewis, Art Director. Tom Lewis, Design Director.	Produced by Tehabi Books and published by Sierra Club Books
Spotted Bear: A Rocky Mountain Folktale	1999	By Hanneke Ippisch. Illustrated by Hedvig Rappe-Flowers. Designed by Kim Ericsson. Kathleen Ort, Editor-in-Chief.	Mountain Press Publishing
Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail	1999	By Leonard Adkins. Photographs by Joe and Monica Cook. Grant M. Tatum, Creative Director.	Menasha Ridge Press
Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography	2000	Photography by Bradford Washburn. Edited and Compiled by Antony Decaneas.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
The Living Wild	2001	Photography by Art Wolfe.	Wildlands Press, Seattle
The Southwest's Contrary Land: Forever Changing Between Four Corners and the Sea of Cortes	2002	By Craig Childs. Designed by Mary Winkelman Velgos. Photography Editor Peter Ensenberger.	Arizona Highways Books. Phoenix. AZ
Wilder Mississippi	2002	Photographs by Stephen Kirkpatrick. Text by Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick. Design by Heidi Flynn Allen.	The Marvelous Works, Madison, MS
First Light: Acadia National Park and Maine's Mount Desert Island	2003	Photography by Tom Blagden, Jr. Text by Charles R. Tyson, Jr.	Friends of Acadia in combination with Westcliffe Publishers
Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky	2004	Photography by Art Wolfe. Essays by Art Davidson.	Wildlands Press, Seattle
The Mountains Know Arizona	2004	Photographs by Michael Collier. Text by Rose Houk. Designed by Mary Winkelmann Velgos.	Arizona Highways, Phoenix
Mountain Ranges of Colorado	2005	Photographed and Written by John Fielder. Designed by Mark Mulvany.	Westcliffe Publishers, Englewood, CO
100 Caterpillars	2006	By Jeffrey C. Miller, Daniel H. Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs.	The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Wings of Spring: Courtship, Nesting and Fledging	2006	Photographs by Tom Vezo an text by Chuck Hagner.	Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
Yosemite in the Sixties	2007	Glen Denny. Essays by Kevin Starr, Steve Roper and Glen Denny	Patagonia and T. Adler Books
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge	2007	Stephen Brown	The Mountaineers Books
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY CATEGORY
The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom	1998	By Vince Welch, Cort Conley, and Brad Dimock.	Fretwater Press
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey	1999	By Sam Keith from the journals of Richard Proenneke.	Alaska Northwest Books
The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory	2000	By Peter and Leni Gillman.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell	2001	By Donald Worster.	Oxford University Press, New York
Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde	2001	By Brad Dimock.	Fretwater Press, Flagstaff, Arizona
Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,200 Mile Odyssey Among the Inuit	2002	By Jonathan Waterman.	Lyons Press/Globe Pequot, Guilford, CT
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism	2002	By Char Miller.	Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington
Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island	2003	By Chris Duff.	Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT
Women on High: Pioneers of Mountaineering	2003	By Rebecca A. Brown.	Appalachian Mountain Club Books, Boston, MA
Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering	2004	By Andy Selters.	American Alpine Club Press, Golden, Colorado
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life	2005	By Arlene Blum.	Scribner, New York
Journey of a Hope Merchant: From Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing	2005	By Neal Petersen with William P. Baldwin and Patty Fulcher.	South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC
The Last Season	2006	By Eric Blehm.	HarperCollins, New York
The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River	2007	Brad Dimock	Fretwater Press
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial Disasters	2007	James M. Tabor	W. W. Norton & Company
INSTRUCTIONAL CATEGORY
Ragged Mountain Press Guide to Outdoor Sports	1997	By Jonathan and Roseann Hanson.	Ragged Mountain Press
Knots and Ropes for Climbers	1998	By Duane Raleigh. Illustrated by Mike Clelland.	Stackpole Books
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast and High	1999	By Mark F. Twight and James Martin.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
The National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide	2000	By Mark Harvey.	A Fireside Book Published by Simon & Schuster
The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide	2001	By Tom Rosenbauer. Illustrations by Rod Walinchus. Fly Pattern Photographs by Henry Ambrose.	The Lyons Press, New York
The Complete Sea Kayaker's Handbook	2002	By Shelley Johnson.	Ragged Mountain Press, Camden, NH
The Mountain Traveller's Handbook	2002	By Paul Deegan.	British Mountaineering Council, Manchester, UK
Basic Canoeing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started	2003	By Jon Rounds and Wayne Dickert. Photographs by Skip Brown. Illustrations by Taina Litwak.	Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
Rock Climbing: Mastering the Basic Skills	2004	By Craig Luebben.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Basic Kayaking: All the Skills and Gear You Need to Get Started	2005	By Wayne Dickert and Jon Rounds. Photographs by Skip Brown. Illustrations by Roberto Sabas.	Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
Glacier Mountaineering: An Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue	2005	By Andy Tyson. Illustrated by Mike Clelland. Edited by Michael Kennedy.	Climbing Magazine, Carbondale, CO
Extreme Kids: How to connect with your children through today's extreme (and not so extreme) outdoor sports	2006	By Scott Graham.	Wilderness Press, Berkeley
The Complete Mountain Biking Manual	2007	Tim Brink	Ragged Mountain Press
NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE CATEORY
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion	2005	By Alan Burdick.	Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Condor: To the Brink and Back	2006	By John Nielsen.	HarperCollins Publishers, New York
Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place	2007	Robert Michael Pyle	Houghton Mifflin Company
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West	2007	By Michael Punke	Smithsonian
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT CATEGORY
Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids	1997	By Laura Erickson, illustrated by Kathryn Marsaa.	Pfeifer-Hamilton
The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack	1998	By David Mech.	Voyageur Press
The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource	1998	By Tim Palmer.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Islands of Hope: Lessons from North America's Great Wildlife Sanctuaries	1999	By Phillip Manning.	John F. Blair
Washington's Mount Rainier National Park: A Centennial Celebration	1999	By Tim McNulty. Photographs by Pat O'Hara.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Penguin Planet: Their World, Our World	2000	By Kevin Schafer.	NorthWord Press
Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden	2000	By Terry Grosz.	Johnson Books
For Love of Wildness: The Journal of a U.S. Game Management Agent	2001	By Terry Grosz.	Johnson Books, Boulder
Pacific Light: Images of the Monterey Peninsula	2001	By Douglas Steakley. Poetry by Ric Masten.	Carmel Publishing Company, Carmel, California
Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank	2001	By Andrew Beattie and Paul Ehrlich. Illustrated by Christine Turnbull.	Yale University Press, New Haven
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History	2002	By Ted Steinberg.	Oxford University Press, New York
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us	2002	By Alexandra Morton.	Ballantine Books, New York
The Southwest Inside Out: An Illustrated Guide to the Land and Its History	2002	By Thomas Wiewandt and Maureen Wilks.	Wild Horizons Publishing. Tucson, AZ
Ice Island: Expedition to Antarctica's Largest Iceberg	2003	By Gregory S. Stone.	New England Aquarium, Boston MA
The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty	2004	By Kenneth Libbrecht. Photography by Patricia Rasmussen.	Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota
Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behavior and Conservation	2005	By James R. Spotila.	The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery	2006	By Wayne Ranney.	Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, AZ
Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya	2006	By David Zurick and Julsun Pacheco.	University of Kentucky Press, Lexington
Life in the Underground	2006	By David Attenborough.	Princeton University Press, Princeton
Condors in Canyon Country: The Return of the California Condor to the Grand Canyon Region	2007	Sophie A. H. Osborn	Grand Canyon Association
White Paradise: Journeys to the North Pole	2007	Francis Latreille	Abrams
NATURE GUIDEBOOK CATEGORY
Canoe Country Flora	1997	By Mark Stensaas, illustrated by Jeff Sonstegard.	Pfeifer-Hamilton
A Field Guide to Snakes of Florida	1998	By Alan Tennant.	Gulf Publishing Company
Colorado Nature Almanac	1998	By Stephen R. Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman.	Pruett Publishing Company Company
Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains: A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species	1999	By James Halfpenny, Ph.D. Illustrated by Todd Telander & Designed by Dana Kim-Wincapaw.	Falcon Publishing
Guide to Marine Mammals & Turtles of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico	2000	By Kate Wynne and Malia Schwartz. Illustrated by Garth Mix.	Rhode Island Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island
Butterflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Western North America	2001	By Jeffrey Glassberg.	Oxford University Press, New York
The Raptor Almanac: A Comprehensive Guide to Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Vultures	2001	By Scott Weidensaul.	The Lyons Press, New York
Bird Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species	2002	By Mark Elbroch and Eleanor Marks.	Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
Lichens of North America	2002	By Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff.	Yale University Press, New Haven
Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species	2003	By Mark Elbroch.	Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific	2003	By Milton S. Love, Mary Yoklavich, and Lyman Thorsteinson.	University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Dragonflies of the North Woods	2004	By Kurt Mead.	Kollath-Stensaas Publishing, Duluth, Minnesota
Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves	2005	By Laura and William Riley.	Princeton University Press, Princeton
Snakes of the Southeast	2005	By Whit Gibbons and Mike Dorcas.	The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
Caterpillars of Eastern North America	2006	By David L. Wagner.	Princeton University Press, Princeton
Yellowstone Expedition Guide: The Modern Way to Explore America's Oldest National Park	2006	By Charissa Reid.	TravelBrains, Inc., Bedford, NH
Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide	2007	Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner and Miguel Lentino	Yale University Press
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE GUIDEBOOK CATEGORY
Colorado's Continental Divide Trail	1998	By Tom Lorang Jones. Photographs by John Fielder.	Westcliffe Publishers
Trout Unlimited's Guide to America's 100 Best Trout Streams	1999	By John Ross. Jeff Wincapaw, Art Director.	Falcon Publishing and Trout Unlimited
Vermont and New Hampshire Winter Trails	1999	By Marty Basch.	The Globe Pequot Press
Guide to Sea Kayaking Central and Northern California	2000	By Roger Schumann and Jan Shriner.	The Globe Pequot Press
Montana and Idaho's Continental Divide Trail	2000	By Lynna Howard. Photography By Leland Howard.	Westcliffe Publishers
101 Hikes in Northern California: Exploring Mountains, Valleys, and Seashore	2001	By Matt Heid.	Wilderness Press, Berkeley
Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List	2001	By Mark Kroese.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Hike America Virginia: An Atlas of Virginia's Greatest Hiking Adventures	2001	By Bill & Mary Burnham.	The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut
Alaska: A Climbing Guide	2002	By Michael Wood and Colby Coombs.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Hiking the Sierra Nevada	2002	By John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil.	Lonely Planet Publications, Footscray, Australia
100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest: Eastern Washington, Northern Rockies, Wallowas	2003	By Rich Landers and the Spokane Mountaineers.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park	2003	By Marc J. Soares.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Trekking Washington	2003	By Mike Woodmansee.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
100 Classic Hikes in Oregon	2004	By Douglas Lorain.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Idaho's Salmon River: A River Runner's Guide to the River of No Return	2005	By Eric J. Newell and Allison J. Newell.	Black Canyon Guides, Logan, UT
Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide	2005	By Roxanna Brook and Jared McMillen.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Top Trails Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks	2005	By Andrew Dean Nystrom.	Wilderness Press, Berkeley
The Middle Fork of the Salmon River: A Comprehensive Guide	2006	By Matt Leidecker.	Idaho River Publications, Hailey, ID
Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon	2007	Tom Martin and Duwain Whitis	Vishnu Temple Press
OUTDOOR CLASSIC CATEGORY
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills	1998	Edited by Don Graydon and Kurt Hanson.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Two in the Far North	1998	By Margaret Murie.	Alaska Northwest Books
Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods	1999	By John J. Rowlands with illustrations by Henry B. Kane.	The Countryman Press
A Sand County Almanac: A Sketches Here and There	2000	By Aldo Leopold.	Oxford University Press
Wilderness and the American Mind	2001	By Roderick Nash.	Yale University Press, New Haven
Backwoods Ethics: A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking	2002	By Laura and Guy Waterman.	The Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT
Alone	2003	By Richard E. Byrd.	Island Press, Washington, DC
Walden	2004	By Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer.	Yale University Press, New Haven
Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens	2006	By P.G. Downes.	Heron Dance Press, New Ferrisburg, VT.
A Natural History of North American Trees.	2007	Donald Culross Peattie	Houghton Mifflin Company
OUTDOOR CLASSIC CATEGORY: Life-time Achievement Recognition
Farley Mowat for Sea of Slaughter, Never Cry Wolf and other works--Sea of Slaughter	2005	By Farley Mowat. Note: Never Cry Wolf and other Mowat books are available from a variety of publishers.	Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
OUTDOOR LITERATURE CATEGORY
Landscapes of the Interior	1997	By Don Gayton.	New Society Publishers
The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World	1997	Edited by Scott Olsen and Scott Cairns.	University of Utah Press
Postcards from the Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child	1998	By Greg Child.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water	1999	By Richard Bangs.	Sierra Club Books in conjunction with Random House
On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak	2000	By Chris Duff.	St. Martin's Press
Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China and Vietnam	2001	By Erika Warmbrunn.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Rowing to Latitude	2002	By Jill Fredston.	North Point Press, New York
The Beckoning Silence	2003	By Joe Simpson.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
A Blistered Kind of Love	2004	By Angela and Duffy Ballard.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age	2004	By Ted Kerasote.	Voyageur Press, Stillwater, Minnesota
Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure	2004	By Maria Coffey.	St. Martin's Press, New York
At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness	2005	By Peter Stark.	Ballatine Books, New York
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women who climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain	2005	By Jennifer Jordan.	William Morrow, New York
Being Caribou	2006	By Karsten Heuer.	The Mountaineers Books, Seattle
Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska	2007	Lou Ureneck	St. Martins Press
Blue Horizons: Dispatches from Distant Seas	2007	Beth A. Leonard	International Marine/McGraw-Hill
WORKS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Cowstails and Cobras II: A Guide to Games, Initiatives, Ropes Courses, & Adventure Curriculum	1999	By Karl Rohnke.
Expedition Kayaking	1999	By Derek Hutchinson.
How to Rock Climb	1999	By John Long.
Kayaking: An Animated Guide of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique	1999	By William Nealy.
Walking Softy in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking	1999	By John Hart.
AMC White Mountain Guide: Hiking Trails of the White Mountain National Forest	2003	Compiled and Edited by Gene Daniell and Steven D. Smith.	Appalachian Mountain Club Books, Boston, MA
Connecticut Walk Book: The Guide to the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails of Western Connecticut	2007	Ann T. Colson	Connecticut Forest and Park Association

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