We got the news last week, when the 2009 National Book Awards were announced and we saw that William Nealy’s (destined-to-be-a-classic) Kayak: The New Frontier took home the top prize in the “Classic Category”. It’s a great honor to have this one-of-a-kind book get the recognition we think it deserves. The folks here at Menasha [...]

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The Just Passin’ Thru advanced reader copies have arrived just in time for the weekend! Books won’t be in stores for a few more weeks, but we’ll be down at the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance event this weekend.

Author Winton Porter will also be there this weekend signing books and speaking on an author panel. So [...]

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The Summer heat is here. It’s time to level some professional advice as to where to hike and camp to make the most of your time out in the sun. Or you can get a head start on your plans for Fall and Winter and start planning your Fall and Winter adventures with some of [...]

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Let’s give it up for the American Hiking Society’s great success in pushing the U.S. Congress to pass (on March 25) the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act. Not impressed yet? Well. . . just think: Protection for two million acres of Wilderness, 5,000 miles of trails, 1,000 miles of rivers, PLUS legislation for the 26-million-acre [...]

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The other day we posted the Wilderness Press catalog online and today we’re unleashing the Menasha Ridge Press and Clerisy Press joint-catalog into the wild as well.
So check it out and pass it along.
Once you get chance to ‘flip’ through the pages though, drop us a note to let us know how we’re doing!

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The website Planeta.com, self-described as a global journal of practical ecotourism, has just named Traveler’s Tool Kit: Mexico & Central America by Rob Sangster and Tim Leffel, a book of the year in its guidebook category. This is the third year that Planeta.com has featured Book of the Year Awards and the website reports that [...]

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After nearly 10 years as Senior Editor for COASTAL LIVING Magazine, covering the shores of North America, Susan Haynes has expanded her geography to embrace the river, forest, and mountain terrain of Menasha Ridge Press. As Senior Acquisitions Editor, Susan is hot on the trail for great ideas, authors, and manuscripts for our outdoor adventure [...]

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