Catalog of Active Titles

Here at TMC Books, we have a bent toward all things eclectic, and our publishing projects have ranged from a children’s book about sailing the Maine coast to a textbook about wilderness medicine to guidebooks for mountain climbers. Every now and then, we indulge our passion for fun and produce a book for ourselves. Between us, we do all the research, writing, photography, illustrating, graphic design, and production. Without staff or committees or independent contractors or any of the other trappings of a conventional business, we are free to follow our dream to make wonderful books about things we love.

The Lions of Winter

Survival and sacrifice on Mount Washington

On January 25, 1982, during a four-day search for two missing ice climbers on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington in extreme weather conditions, Albert Dow, a member of the all-volunteer Mountain Rescue Service, became the first—and so far the only— member of a backcountry search and rescue team to be killed in the line of duty in the White Mountains. He was caught in an avalanche in terrain previously thought to present no risk. His teammate, Michael Hartrich, was injured in the accident.

In The Lions of Winter, author Ty Gagne describes the ordeal of the missing climbers, the selflessness and courage of the dedicated rescuers, the tragic circumstances surrounding the avalanche, and the heartbreak of the family, friends, and teammates of the fallen rescuer.

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White Mountains State

By Keith Gentili

This is a down-to-earth, everyman story for anyone with an interest in hiking and mountain climbing. White Mountains State succeeds in highlighting both the trails and challenges of the New Hampshire 48 as well as the deep satisfaction and accomplishment that can result in finishing the list. A dedicated husband and father, and an adventurous friend to his neighbors and college buddies, Keith gives an honest and detailed account of hiking each mountain, either solo or with those he recruits, all while making sure his quest harmonizes with his family life and hiking partnerships. Gentili’s book will make you fall in love with the hills, and inspire you to climb your own mountains, whatever they may be.

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Wildcare

Working in Less than Desirable Conditions and Remote Environments

Since 1976, SOLO has been the leader in Wilderness Medicine. Dr. Frank Hubbell, who founded SOLO, spent years trying to distill the principles that SOLO teaches into one volume, WILDCARE is the result. The foundation of emergency medicine for emergency first responders is covered simply, clearly, and elegantly in this heavily illustrated, well-organized book. Whatever your level of training, this is a must have reference for anyone who may work outside the Golden Hour. $99.99

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SOLO Wilderness First Responder

The SOLO Wilderness First Responder is the textbook created for Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO), the wilderness and emergency medicine school in Conway, NH for teaching the course of the same name.

Heavily illustrated, the book follows the curriculum of the SOLO course and reflects more than 40 years of experience teaching emergency and wilderness medicine.

Covering primary assessment through environmental emergencies the SOLO Wilderness First Responder is a great reference book for first responders and EMTs alike.

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THE SOLO FIELD GUIDE TO WILDERNESS FIRST AID

The principle mission of TMC Books is to provide quality text materials for Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO).

The first edition of the SOLO Field Guide to Wilderness First Aid sold over 17,000 copies in three years.

Designed specifically to be used with SOLO courses, this beautifully illustrated, spiral bound workbook, is filled with resource and support materials. The SOLO Field Guide to Wilderness First Aid third edition, ISBN:978-0-9962181-2-2 is now available as a paperback through Amazon.com.

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MANUAL DE PRIMEROS AUXILIOS PARA AREAS SILVESTRES Edición en español

: SOLO Field Guide to Wilderness First Aid, Spanish Edition

The principle mission of TMC Books is to provide quality text materials for Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO).

The first edition of the SOLO Field Guide to Wilderness First Aid sold over 17,000 copies in three years.

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THE LAST TRAVERSE

Tragedy and resilience in the Winter Whites by Ty Gagne

On a mountain somewhere above treeline, in some of the coldest and worst winter conditions imaginable, two men lie unconscious in the snow as explosive winds batter the nearby summits.

In The Last Traverse; Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites, Ty Gagne masterfully lays out the events that led up to an epic and legendary rescue attempt in severe and dangerous winter conditions in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. More than a cautionary tale, it is a tribute to all the volunteers and professionals who willingly put themselves in harm’s way to save lives. This is a must read for anyone who hikes the Whites.

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Where You’ll Find Me

Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova

On February 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Late the following day, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the mountains amid some of the worst weather ever recorded on these deceptively rugged slopes.

At 32, she was ultra-fit and healthy and had already summited much larger mountains on several continents. Her gear included a rescue beacon and a satellite phone. Yet, despite their best efforts, forty-two expert search and rescue personnel, a New Hampshire Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter, and a Civil Air Patrol Cessna airplane could not reach her in time to save her.

What went wrong? Where You’ll Find Me offers possible answers to that question, demonstrating why Matrosova’s story – what we know and what we will never know – represents such an intriguing and informative case study in risk analysis and decision-making.

Ty Gagne is chief executive officer of New Hampshire Public Risk Management Exchange (Primex3), a public entity risk pool serving local governments in New Hampshire. He is a certified wilderness first responder, and serves on the Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue Team and Board of Directors. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife.

The book includes a foreword by Caroline Alexander, renowned author of The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, and The Bounty: The True Story of Mutiny on the Bounty.

Where You’ll Find Me is a must read for anyone interested in mountaineering and extreme weather and offers lessons in decision-making for us all.

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Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace

How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods

A story of citizens who put aside their differences and joined forces to prevent a cultural landmark from being lost forever In 1995, plans were under way to destroy the 18th-century house in Concord, Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau was born. The 20 acres on which it stood, the final piece of the original farm that had been cultivated for 300 years, would make way for an upscale housing development.The saga of how a group of unlikely allies banded together to save, preserve, and re-use the house—not as a museum but as “a birthplace of ideas”—serves as an important reminder of the power of grassroots resistance and a fervent call to revive the lost art of finding common ground. It is an inspiring example of citizenship at its best—a tribute to what can be accomplished by thefew, for the many.

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BOYS SHOULD BE BOYS

A Headmaster’s Reflections.
By Brian R. Walsh

After forty-two years in independent education and thirty of those years as a Headmaster, Brian R. Walsh shares his reflections on how boys learn and relate to their world.

From the Introduction of Boys Should Be Boys

“Boys not only learn differently than girls of the same age, they make friends differently, have entirely different issues of self-esteem and motivation, react to their parents and teachers differently, and, in fact, process just about everything differently. In addition, their responses to competition and physical contact are in marked contrast to those of girls, almost to the point of an opposite hierarchy of values.

What is particularly frustrating to boys during the formative years of elementary school is that they are almost universally under the guidance and care of women – mothers and teachers – who innately gauge boys’ behavior, learning and interpersonal relationships on the model of girls, simply because they were girls and can relate to girls most naturally.

These are the conclusions of a headmaster from thirty years of running two independent kindergarten-ninth grade schools, one coeducational and the other all boys. Most of the natural differences, however, became especially obvious after only a few months of directing the boy’s school, for there was a pronounced difference in their attitudes about themselves and in their social challenges. In Boys Should Be Boys these observations are presented through anecdotes of actual school situations and, more significantly, through the voices and actions of the boys themselves.”

You can read more about Boys should be Boys and the author by going to the web-log of Brian R. Walsh

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Praise for Boys Should Be Boys

“As the mother of two sons who benefited from Brian Walsh’s wisdom, I am delighted that he is finally sharing his insights with a wider audience. Every page of Boys Should Be Boys reflects Brian’s understanding of the special nature of boys from early childhood through adolescence. With clarity and great sensitivity, he tells stories that can help parents and educators alike nurture the best of boys and help them reach their full potential.”

Sally Bedell Smith, author of For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years

“This book is not only an essential operating manual for educators; it is a highly entertaining and valuable guide for all parents of boys.”

“In an unstuffy clear fluid prose, laced with many anecdotes, Brian Walsh provides real insight into the educating of boys and their unique and very different ways of learning.”

John F. Lehman Jr., former Secretary of the United States Navy and member of the 9/11 Commission.
Author of Command of the Seas

Treehouse Chronicles

Ever wanted to build a tree house? Check out Treehouse Chronicles, Peter Lewis’ magnificent book about the four years he spent building a two story, timber frame tree house. It is much more than an account of a construction project.

Winner of a Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, A Writers Notes Book Award, and an American Design Award, and a 2006 Hollywood Book Festival Winner, this is the story of what happens when big people decide to be kids again and the yhave tools and lumber. Beautifully written, Treehouse Chronicles is a reflective and insightful tale about building an elaborate treehouse in the Maine woods. Filled with humor, packed with spactacular photography, evocative watercolors, and line drawings, this book is a delight.

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Arlene’s Book

Two short memoirs and one unfinished manuscript by Arlene C. Walsh

On May 31st 2007, Arlene Walsh was killed in a car accident in a remote area of northeast New Mexico. She was 71-years-old.

At the time of her death, she had been a semi-retired kindergarten teacher, student pilot, and the president of her local chapter of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association). She had also helped found a local chapter of the Ninety-Nines, the International Organization of Woman Pilots in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lived.

She left behind three grown children, four grandchildren, two cats, two pet snakes, and a half-built biplane that had been under construction bit-by-bit for years. She also left behind a manuscript for a book on which she had been working, The Sky’s The Limit, about being an older woman fulfilling her dream of learning to fly.

The Sky’s The Limit was not only incomplete but also in very rough draft form. It was not the only manuscript that Arlene left behind either. Arlene’s Book is a compilation of the The Sky’s The Limit with two earlier, more complete manuscripts that she wrote about different parts of her life. Pot Roast on the Ceiling is a series of remembrances of her girlhood in Connecticut, and Door to the Rainbow chronicles one year of her life teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in rural New Mexico. Together, these three manuscripts form a memoir of an independently-minded, talented woman who passionately followed her dreams. On May 31st 2007, Arlene Walsh was killed in a car accident in a remote area of northeast New Mexico. She was 71-years-old.

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Merlin and the Black Star

If you are interested in classic wooden sailboats, dogs, or the beauty of the Maine coast, check out Merlin and the Black Star. A simple children’s book written and illustrated by our in-house illustrator T.B.R. “Ted” Walsh.

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Based on the exploits of two real dogs, Merlin and the Black Star is a delightful introduction to sailing and the coast of Maine. Central to the book is the Black Star, an actual Friendship Sloop designed in 1903.

The wonderfully detailed illustrations evoke both the timeless quality of life aboard a classic wooden boat and the joys of discovering new places. Enter a world of simple pleasures as Merlin and Saxon, the two main characters, explore and discover the wonders of the coastal world.

SOLO WILDERNESS FIRST AID MAP

Ever take a SOLO Wilderness First Aid Course?

Ever wish you had a cheat-sheet for everything you learned?

Well once again SOLO has come through with the goods.
The SOLO Wilderness First Aid Map is a one page fold out map with the contents of the course broken down by section on one side of the map. From Patient Assessment, Shock, Anaphylactic Reaction, to the principles of managing Soft Tissue Injuries, it is all reviewed on one sheet. On the flip side is a completely visual guide to bandaging and splinting.

The SOLO Wilderness First Aid Map is 19inches by 37 inches and folds up to 4 by 9 inches. It will fit easily in a backpack, daypack, or glove compartment. Nothing can take the place of proper training, but even the best-trained need a reminder now and then. The SOLO Wilderness First Aid Map is a great addition to your first aid toolbox and it makes a great wall decoration too! $5.0

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