National Outdoor Book Award

National Outdoor Book Award
Awarded for	The best in outdoor writing and publishing.
Date	Annual
Country	United States
First awarded	1997
Official website	http://www.noba-web.org

The National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) was formed in 1997 as a US-based non-profit program which each year honors the best in outdoor writing and publishing.^[1] It is housed at Idaho State University and chaired by Ron Watters.^[1] Awards are presented in ten categories. ^[1]

The award is announced in early November of each year.^[2] Winning books are promoted nationally and are entitled to display the National Outdoor Book Award gold medallion. ^[3]

Winners and honorable mentions

• Small date (2010 vs 2010 ) = Honorable Mention

Outdoor Literature

• 2011: Philip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
• 2010: Peter Heller, Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life and Catching the Perfect Wave
• 2010: Winton Porter, Just Passin' Thru
• 2009: Mark Obmascik, Halfway to Heaven
• 2009: Julie Angus, Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Ocean
• 2008: Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Forget Me Not: A Memoir
• 2007: Beth A. Leonard, Blue Horizons: Dispatches from Distant Seas
• 2007: Lou Ureneck, Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska
• 2006: Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou
• 2005: Jennifer Jordan, Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women who climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
• 2005: Peter Stark, At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness
• 2004: Maria Coffey, Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
• 2004: Ted Kerasote, Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age
• 2004: Angela Ballard, Duffy Ballard, A Blistered Kind of Love
• 2003: Joe Simpson, The Beckoning Silence
• 2002: Jill Fredston, Rowing to Latitude
• 2001: Erika Warmbrunn, Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China and Vietnam
• 2000: Chris Duff, On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak
• 1999: Richard Bangs, The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water
• 1998: Greg Child, Postcards from the Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child
• 1997: Don Gayton, Landscapes of the Interior
• 1997: Scott Olsen, Scott Cairns, The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World

History/Biography

• 2011: Dominic Gill, Take a Seat: One Man, One Tandem and Twenty Thousand Miles of Possibilities
• 2011: Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
• 2010: Joseph E. Taylor III, Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers & Nature at Risk
• 2010: Jennifer Jordan, The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2
• 2010: Glyn Williams, Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
• 2009: Douglas Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
• 2008: Elias Butler, Tom Myers, Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of the Grand Canyon
• 2008: Maurice Isserman, Stewart Weaver, Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
• 2007: Brad Dimock, The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River
• 2007: James M. Tabor, Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disaster
• 2006: Eric Blehm, The Last Season
• 2005: Neal Petersen w/ William P. Baldwin & Patty Fulcher, Journey of a Hope Merchant: From Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing
• 2005: Arlene Blum, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
• 2004: Andy Selters, Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering
• 2003: Chris Duff, Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island
• 2003: Rebecca A. Brown, Women on High: Pioneers of Mountaineering
• 2002: Char Miller, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism
• 2002: Jonathan Waterman, Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,200 Mile Odyssey Among the Inuit
• 2001: Brad Dimock, Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde
• 2001: Donald Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
• 2000: Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman, The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
• 1999: Sam Keith from the journals of Richard Proenneke, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
• 1998: Vince Welch, Cort Conley, Brad Dimock, The Doing of the Thing: The Brief, Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom
• 1997: (no award)

Outdoor Classic

• 2011: Life-time Achievement Recognition: John Muir for My First Summer in the Sierra and other works.
• 2010: Maurice Herzog, Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak
• 2009: William Nealy, Kayak: The New Frontier
• 2009: Steve Sherman, Julia Older, Appalachian Odyssey: Walking the Trail from Georgia to Maine
• 2008: Ellsworth L. Kolb, Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
• 2008: Thomas Winnett, Ben Schifrin, Jeffrey Schaffer, Ruby Johnson Jenkins, Andy Selters, The Pacific Crest Trail (Series). In three volumes: Southern California, Northern California and Oregon & Washington
• 2007: Donald Culross Peattie, A Natural History of North American Trees
• 2006: P.G. Downes, Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens
• 2005: Life-time Achievement Recognition: Farley Mowat for Sea of Slaughter, Never Cry Wolf and other works.
• 2004: Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (ed.), Walden
• 2003: Richard E. Byrd, Alone
• 2002: Laura Waterman, Guy Waterman, Backwoods Ethics: A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking
• 2001: Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind
• 2000: Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
• 1999: John J. Rowlands, Henry B. Kane (illus.), Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
• 1998: Margaret Murie, Two in the Far North
• 1998: Don Graydon, Kurt Hanson, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
• 1997: (no award)

Nature and the Environment

• 2011: Nancy Ross Hugo, Robert Llewellyn (photo), Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees
• 2010: Mark W. Moffett, Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari With a Cast of Trillions
• 2009: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Our Living Earth
• 2009: Michael Welland, Sand: The Never Ending Story
• 2008: Steven Kazlowski, The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World
• 2008: Wayne Grady, The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region
• 2007: Sophie A. H. Osborn, Condors in Canyon Country: The Return of the California Condor to the Grand Canyon Region
• 2007: Francis Latreille, White Paradise: Journeys to the North Pole
• 2006: David Attenborough, Life in the Underground
• 2006: David Zurick, Julsun Pacheco, Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya
• 2006: Wayne Ranney, Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery
• 2005: James R. Spotila, Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behavior and Conservation
• 2004: Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Patricia Rasmussen (photo), The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty
• 2003: Gregory S. Stone, Ice Island: Expedition to Antarctica's Largest Iceberg
• 2002: Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
• 2002: Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
• 2002: Thomas Wiewandt, Maureen Wilks, The Southwest Inside Out: An Illustrated Guide to the Land and It's History
• 2001: Andrew Beattie, Paul R. Ehrlich, Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank
• 2001: Terry Grosz, For Love of Wildness: The Journal of a U.S. Game Management Agent
• 2001: Douglas Steakley, Ric Masten (poetry), Pacific Light: Images of the Monterey Peninsula
• 2000: Terry Grosz, Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden
• 2000: Kevin Schafer, Penguin Planet: Their World, Our World
• 1999: Tim McNulty, Pat O'Hara (photo), Washington's Mount Rainier National Park: A Centennial Celebration
• 1999: Phillip Manning, Islands of Hope: Lessons from North America's Great Wildlife Sanctuaries
• 1998: Tim Palmer, The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource
• 1998: David Mech, The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack
• 1997: (no award)

Natural History Literature

• 2011: Bill Belleville, Salvaging the Real Florida: Lost and Found in the State of Dreams
• 2010: Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
• 2010: Anders Halverson, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
• 2009: Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
• 2008: Susan Freinkel, The American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
• 2007: Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
• 2007: Michael Punke, Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
• 2006: John Nielsen, Condor: To the Brink and Back
• 2005: Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
• 1997-2004: (no award)

Children's

• 2011: Judy Burris, Wayne Richards, The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs
• 2011: Nikki McClure, To Market, To Market
• 2010: Ginger Wadsworth, Karen Dugan (illus.), Camping With the President
• 2010: Mary Morton Cowan, Captain Mac: The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer
• 2009: Laura Goering, Whistling Wings
• 2009: S. Terrell French, Operation Redwood
• 2008: Eric Walters, The Pole
• 2007: Roland Smith, Peak
• 2006: Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuysen, Gijsbert van Frankenhuysen (illus.), Kelly of Hazel Ridge
• 2006: Lee Welles, Gaia Girls Enter the Earth
• 2005: Sharon Lovejoy, The Little Green Island With a Little Red House: A Book of Colors and Critters
• 2005: Lois Ehlert, The Leaf Man
• 2004: Mary Ann Hoberman, Jane Dyer (illus.), Whose Garden Is It?
• 2003: Gloria Whelan, Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (illus.), Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie
• 2003: Ellen Stoll Walsh, Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery
• 2002: Jane Yolen, Jason Stemple (photos), Wild Wings: Poems for Young People
• 2002: Mia Posada, Ladybugs: Red, Fiery and Bright
• 2001: Nancy White Carlstrom, Tim Ladwig (illus.), What Does the Sky Say?
• 2001: Bruce Hiscock, Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest
• 2000: Twig C. George, Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish
• 2000: Ann Dixon, Evon Zerbetz (illus.), Blueberry Shoe
• 1999: Mary Wallace, The Inuksuk Book
• 1998: (no award)
• 1997: (no award)

Design and Artistic Merit

• 2011: Kate Davis, Rob Palmer, Nick Dunlop, Raptors of the West Captured in Photographs
• 2010: David A. Patterson^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Matt Patterson (illus.), Freshwater Fish of the Northeast
• 2009: Lars Jonsson, Lars Jonsson's Birds
• 2008: Guy Motil, Surfboards
• 2008: Susan Hallsten McGarry, Bruce Aiken (paintings), Bruce Aiken's Grand Canyon: An Intimate Affair
• 2008: Ed Cooper, Soul of the Heights: 50 Years Going to the Mountains
• 2007: Kevin Starr, Steve Roper, Glen Denny, Yosemite in the Sixties
• 2007: Stephen Brown^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Arctic Wings: Birds of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge
• 2006: Tom Vezo (photo), Chuck Hagner, Wings of Spring: Courtship, Nesting and Fledging
• 2006: Jeffrey C. Miller, Daniel H. Janzen, Winifred Hallwachs, 100 Caterpillars
• 2005: John Fielder, Mark Mulvany (design), Mountain Ranges of Colorado
• 2004: Michael Collier (photo), Rose Houk (text), Mary Winkelmann Velgos (design), The Mountains Know Arizona
• 2004: Art Wolfe (photo), Art Davidson, Edge of the Earth, Corner of the Sky
• 2003: Tom Blagden, Jr. (photo), Charles R. Tyson, Jr., First Light: Acadia National Park and Maine's Mount Desert Island
• 2002: Stephen Kirkpatrick (photo), Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick (text), Heidi Flynn Allen (design), Wilder Mississippi
• 2002: Craig Childs, Mary Winkelman Velgos (design), Peter Ensenberger (photo), The Southwest's Contrary Land: Forever Changing Between Four Corners and the Sea of Cortes
• 2001: Art Wolfe, The Living Wild
• 2000: Bradford Washburn (photo), Antony Decaneas (ed.), Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography
• 1999: Leonard Adkins, Joe Cook and Monica Cook (photo), Grant M. Tatum (director), Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail
• 1999: Hanneke Ippisch, Hedvig Rappe-Flowers (illus.), Kim Ericsson (design), Kathleen Ort (ed.), Spotted Bear: A Rocky Mountain Folktale
• 1998: Maurice Hornocker, Andy Lewis (art dir.), Tom Lewis (design), Track of the Tiger
• 1998: Ira Spring, Harvey Manning, Jennifer Shontz (graphics), Marge Mueller (cartography), 100 Classic Hikes in Washington
• 1997: Darcy Williamson, Larry Milligan (cover art), Teresa Sales (design), The Rocky Mountain Foods Cookbook

Instructional

• 2011: Robin Barton, The Cycling Bible: The Complete Guide for all Cyclists from Novice to Expert
• 2010: Andrew Bisharat, Sport Climbing: From Top Rope to Redpoint, Techniques for Climbing Success
• 2009: Katie Brown, Ben Moon (photo), Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace and Courage
• 2008: Guy Andrews, Road Bike Maintenance
• 2008: Ken Whiting, Kevin Varette, Whitewater Kayaking: The Ultimate Guide
• 2007: Tim Brink, The Complete Mountain Biking Manual
• 2006: Scott Graham, Extreme Kids: How to connect with your children through today's extreme (and not so extreme) outdoor sports
• 2005: Andy Tyson, Mike Clelland (illus.), Michael Kennedy (ed.), Glacier Mountaineering: An Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue
• 2005: Wayne Dickert, Jon Rounds, Skip Brown (photo), Roberto Sabas (illus.), Basic Kayaking: All the Skills and Gear You Need to Get Started
• 2004: Craig Luebben, Rock Climbing: Mastering the Basic Skills
• 2003: Jon Rounds, Wayne Dickert, Skip Brown (photo), Taina Litwak (illus.), Basic Canoeing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started
• 2002: Shelley Johnson, The Complete Sea Kayaker's Handbook
• 2002: Paul Deegan, The Mountain Traveller's Handbook
• 2001: Tom Rosenbauer, Rod Walinchus (illus.), Henry Ambrose (photo), The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide
• 2000: Mark Harvey, The National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide
• 1999: Mark F. Twight, James Martin, Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast and High
• 1998: Duane Raleigh, Knots and Ropes for Climbers
• 1997: Jonathan Hanson, Roseann Hanson, Ragged Mountain Press Guide to Outdoor Sports

Nature Guidebook

• 2011: Mary Holland, Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide through the Fields, Woods and Marshes of New England
• 2010: Charley Eiseman, Noah Charney, Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species
• 2010: Jonathan Poppele, Night Sky: A Field Guide to the Constellations
• 2010: Steven N. G. Howell, Molt in North American Birds
• 2009: Roger Tory Peterson, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
• 2009: Dennis Paulson, Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West
• 2008: Tomas S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O'Neill, Theodore A. Parker III, Birds of Peru
• 2007: Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel Lentino, Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide
• 2006: Charissa Reid, Yellowstone Expedition Guide: The Modern Way to Explore America's Oldest National Park
• 2006: David L. Wagner, Caterpillars of Eastern North America
• 2005: Whit Gibbons, Mike Dorcas, Snakes of the Southeast
• 2005: Laura Riley, William Riley, Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves
• 2004: Kurt Mead, Dragonflies of the North Woods
• 2003: Mark Elbroch, Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species
• 2003: Milton S. Love, Mary Yoklavich, Lyman Thorsteinson, The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific
• 2002: Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff, Lichens of North America
• 2002: Mark Elbroch, Eleanor Marks, Bird Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species
• 2001: Jeffrey Glassberg, Butterflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Western North America
• 2001: Scott Weidensaul, The Raptor Almanac: A Comprehensive Guide to Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Vultures
• 2000: Kate Wynne, Malia Schwartz, Garth Mix (illus.), Guide to Marine Mammals & Turtles of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
• 1999: James Halfpenny, Todd Telander (illus.), Dana Kim-Wincapaw (design), Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains: A Field Guide to the Signs of 70 Wildlife Species
• 1998: Alan Tennant, A Field Guide to Snakes of Florida
• 1998: Stephen R. Jones, Ruth Carol Cushman, Colorado Nature Almanac
• 1997: Mark Stensaas, Jeff Sonstegard (illus.), Canoe Country Flora

Outdoor Adventure Guidebook

• 2011: Paul W. Bauer, The Rio Grande: A River Guide to the Geology and Landscapes of Northern New Mexico
• 2010: Greg Witt, Exploring Havasupai: A Guide to the Heart of the Grand Canyon
• 2009: Duwain Whitis, Barbara Vinson, Guide to the Green and Yampa Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument
• 2009: Dave Eckardt, The Guide to Baja Sea Kayaking
• 2008: Bill Burnham, Mary Burnham, Florida Keys Paddling Atlas
• 2007: Tom Martin, Duwain Whitis, Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
• 2006: Matt Leidecker, The Middle Fork of the Salmon River: A Comprehensive Guide
• 2005: Andrew Dean Nystrom, Top Trails Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
• 2005: Roxanna Brook, Jared McMillen, Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide
• 2005: Eric J. Newell, Allison J. Newell, Idaho's Salmon River: A River Runner's Guide to the River of No Return
• 2004: Douglas Lorain, 100 Classic Hikes in Oregon
• 2003: Marc J. Soares, 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park
• 2003: Mike Woodmansee, Trekking Washington
• 2003: Rich Landers, 100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest: Eastern Washington, Northern Rockies, Wallowas
• 2002: John Mock, Kimberley O'Neil, Hiking the Sierra Nevada
• 2002: Michael Wood, Colby Coombs, Alaska: A Climbing Guide
• 2001: Mark Kroese, Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List
• 2001: Bill Burnham, Mary Burnham, Hike America Virginia: An Atlas of Virginia's Greatest Hiking Adventures
• 2001: Matt Heid, 101 Hikes in Northern California: Exploring Mountains, Valleys, and Seashore
• 2000: Roger Schumann, Jan Shriner, Guide to Sea Kayaking Central and Northern California
• 2000: Lynna Howard, Montana and Idaho's Continental Divide Trail
• 1999: John Ross, Jeff Wincapaw (art dir.), Trout Unlimited's Guide to America's 100 Best Trout Streams
• 1999: Marty Basch, Vermont and New Hampshire Winter Trails
• 1998: Tom Lorang Jones, John Fielder (photo), Colorado's Continental Divide Trail
• 1997: (no award)

Works of Significance

• 2008-2011: (no award)
• 2007: Ann T. Colson (ed.), Connecticut Walk Book: The Guide to the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails of Western Connecticut
• 2004-2006: (no award)
• 2003: Gene Daniell, Steven D. Smith, AMC White Mountain Guide: Hiking Trails of the White Mountain National Forest
• 2000-2002: (no award)
• 1999: John Hart, Walking Softy in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking
• 1999: William Nealy, Kayaking: An Animated Guide of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique
• 1999: John Long, How to Rock Climb
• 1999: Derek Hutchinson, Expedition Kayaking
• 1999: Karl Rohnke, Cowstails and Cobras II: A Guide to Games, Initiatives, Ropes Courses, & Adventure Curriculum
• 1997-1998: (no award)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} National Outdoor Book Awards, official website.
2. ^ NOBA Press Coverage, list of press coverage.
3. ^ Robert Lee Brewer. 2012 Writer's Market, Writer's Digest Books, 2011. Page 980.

External links

• National Outdoor Book Awards, official website.