Canoe country, written by the man who did most to protect it.

Tracking as a way of paying attention, from a tracker working in Point Reyes.

Cage was a serious mycologist. Attention as practice, again, from an unexpected direction.

How wilderness was invented as an idea, and by whom. Necessary before using the word.

The intellectual history of the thing Thoreau started. Solnit writes from the Bay Area, which is not incidental.

The founding text of walking as distinct from getting somewhere.

Written in the 1940s about being in a mountain rather than conquering it. The finest argument against summit-thinking ever made.

The book behind most of what this project believes. Attention as a discipline, place as an obligation.

Vitreous enamel over steel. Chips, and looks better for it.

Irish, family-made, and boils water with a handful of twigs. Fuel you never have to carry.

The hurricane lantern, made in Germany to the same pattern since 1902. Burns paraffin, survives anything.

German steel built for open fire. Heavy, and only sensible because something else carries it.

Cast then hand-polished to the smoothness old iron had before the industry forgot how.

Legged, lidded, and made for coals. Mass-produced and entirely honest about it.

Fur felt, shaped to the head, better every year it's worn. Buy the hats.

El Paso since 1883, and still made by hand. Heritage that doesn't need explaining.

The lineage boot of the American West. Resoleable, rebuildable, and worth the wait.

Built by hand in Spokane and rebuildable for decades. A synthetic sole is no compromise when you can replace it.

A railroad engineer's cap from 1903 with a pull-down band for wind. One size, no sizing problem.

Family-owned in Sweden since 1936. Deerskin because it moulds to a hand and keeps working wet.