The L. L. Bean Guide to the Outdoors, by Bill Riviere (HC, 1981, $2, with warped cover)
"This book draws not only on Bean's sixty-nine years of experience and its continuous product-testing program, both in Freeport and in the field, but on the woods wisdom of Bill Riviere, one of our foremost outdoor writers."
Do you need information on outdoor equipment, clothing, sleeping bags or whatever else you can think of? Do you need advice, either trivial, or the kind that just might save your life? Then this is the book for you. Look for it on the new non-fiction table, avail. 11/29.
