Award-winning books to stock in the new year

This year’s National Outdoor Book Award winners have been announced.

Need to freshen up your book department in 2016, or just looking for a good holiday read? The National Outdoor Book Association has announced the winners of this year’s awards.

Winning titles this year include a 115-year-old story of a grizzly bear, the history of Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, which is famously challenging to climb, and a novel about a 95-year-old native Alaskan who sets out to carve his last great canoe.

Awards are sponsored by the National Outdoor Book Awards Foundation, the Association of Outdoor Research and Education and Idaho State University. They’re given to authors of the best in outdoor writing and publishing.

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2015 winners:

Classic Award – Wahb: The Biography of a Grizzly, by Ernest Thompson Seton

Non-Fiction Outdoor Literature – Paddlenorth: Adventure, Resilience and Renewal in the Arctic Wild, by Jennifer Kingsley, and The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre, by Kelly Cordes

Fiction Outdoor Literature – Jimmy Bluefeather: A Novel, by Kim Heacox

History/Biography – Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, by Sean Prentiss

Instructional – NOLS River Rescue Guide, by Nate Ostis

Nature Guidebooks – Guide to Marine Mammals and Turtles of the U.S. Pacific, by Kate Wynne

Outdoor Adventure Guidebooks – Field Guide to Oregon Rivers, by Tim Palmer

Children’s Books – This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon, by Nancy Plain

Design & Artistic Merit – The Last Great Wild Places: Forty Years of Wildlife Photography, by Thomas D. Mangelsen

Natural History Literature – The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us, by Diane Ackerman

Nature & The Environment – The House of Owls, by Tony Angell

Find a complete list of winners, including honorable mention books, and application guidelines at noba-web.org.