Water Sports category: 1998 books
by Andrea McCloud
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
The Girl's Guide to Surfing delivers all a girl needs to score the wave of her choice. The surfing population has recently exploded, and women are in the water more than ever. For all these hearty souls, author Andrea McCloud delivers down-to-earth instruction and indispensable advice. Find out what...
Newlyweds Afloat
Married Bliss and Mechanical Breakdowns While Living Aboard a Trawler
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
A funny memoir of falling in love, getting married, and moving aboard a boat.
A young woman meets an amazing guy, falls in love, and they move in together. Straightforward enough, right? Except he lives on a boat—a 38-foot trawler, docked in Chicago. Their relationship is intensified...
The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"
From London to Paris, and by Harve across the Channel to the Isle of Wight, South Coast, &c., &c.
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This edition features illustrations and linked Footnotes.
PREFACE.
In the earlier part of this voyage, and where it was most wished for, along the dangerous coast of France, fine weather came.
Next there was an amphibious interlude to the Paris Exhibition, while the Rob Roy sailed inland.
Thence...
by Captain Robert Engel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Sail Tales is about the adventures a humble sailboat owner had over the years. So where does one start writing about these adventures? You start at the beginning. That beginning was in 1967 when I was helping a friend of mine, Frank, re-build an old wooden boat that he had bought. Frank took the whole...
by Jennifer Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Swimming, boating, surfboarding, or just lying around the beach or pool can be great fun. But thousands of people drown every year in accidents that are often preventable. Keep your family safe by learning how to recognize and avoid the dangers that lurk in and near the water from someone who has always lived near the beach ...
by Anne Strahovski
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Adventure Scuba Diving: A Guide To The Most Breath Taking Diving Spots In The World
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: Exotic Scuba Diving Sites Chapter 2: Diving In Kota Kimbalu Chapter 3: Bikini Atoll For Diving Experts Chapter 4: Coral Sea And Its Diving Spots...
by Debbie, Dennis Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
The Scuba Snobs Guide to Diving Etiquette is filled with humorous to hilarious stories illustrating the need for rules of etiquette for scuba divers, above and below the water. The tips for divers are spot on, the stories entertaining, and the net result is a delightful little read that anyone, not...
Unsinkable
A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Abby Sutherland grew up sailing.
Her father, Laurence, a shipwright, and her mother, Marianne, wanted their kids to develop responsibility, to see other cultures, to experience the world instead of watching it on TV. So they took them sailing down the coast of Mexico... for three years.
When...
by Kevin F. McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
"Dark Descent makes the reader a vicarious participant in what is a very extreme sport."—Philadelphia Inquirer
On May 29, 1914, the passenger liner Empress of Ireland was struck by the freighter Storstad and sank in fifteen minutes, taking more than 1,000 victims with her. It remains...
Oceans Of The World In Color
Marine Life and Oceanography for Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
As our children flip through television channels, they are sure to stumble upon on a TV channel that displays the wonderful waters of our world. They may become quite excited upon seeing some of our world's greatest, largest, and beautiful creatures, including, but ot limited to: whales, dolphins, sharks,...
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Now Filmed As The Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
'A masterpiece.' New Yorker
'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard
'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday Times
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had...
Inside
One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The Ocean is calling me. This is my Journey.
With these words, in the spring of 2010, Susan Marie Conrad scaled her world down to an 18-foot sea kayak and launched a solo journey that took her north to Alaska. With no sense of where she belonged in space and unreconciled feelings of a painful...
Missy Franklin: Swimming Sensation
Y Not Girl Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
The world fell in love with U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin at the 2012 London Olympics. Winning four gold medals and one bronze, the 17-year-old gained fans for her amazing athletic skills, remarkable sportsmanship and a genuinely warm personality. Referring to the water as her second home, the beloved...
by Fred Medina
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Have you tried to learn how to swim and failed?Have you spent years and hundreds, or thousands, of dollars on lessons and you still can't swim?Would you like to swim for fun and recreation, exercise and for survival?You have just stumbled upon Swimming For Quitters: Learn to Swim...