Water Sports category: 1998 books
21 Miles
Swimming in Search of the Meaning of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
'This book will help so many people' Positive Fertility
An Outdoor Swimming Society Book of the Year 2018
After a decade of trying and failing to become a mother, Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. So she decided to swim twenty-one miles across the English Channel...
Campfires and Loon Calls
Travels in the Boundary Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Jerry Apps shares 25 years of wilderness canoeing experience—wicked thunderstorms, inquisitive bears, swamping a canoe, and watching the night sky filled with stars—as well as advice from how to set up a camp and protect food from hungry bears, to minimalist cooking, appreciating a rainy day, and a history of the Boundary Waters region.
Things That Go - Boats Edition
Boats for Children & Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
There is a need to capture a child's attention using appropriate themes just to get him/her to go over a book. Young children are at the peak of language development, and picture books would stimulate that part of the brain. The verbal and visual nature of the book will prove to be more than enough to secure adequate brain development. Buy a copy now!
Pencil, Paper and Stars
The Handbook of Traditional & Emergency Navigation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Today’s sailors rely on GPS for position finding and passage making. But what happens if your electronic navigation systems fail?_x000D_ This book provides you with simple, practical, get-you-home navigation techniques that could save you in an emergency. These easy techniques require no complicated...
Scratching the Horizon
A Surfing Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A bitchin' love letter to sand and sea, and a spirited inside account of life with the "first family" of American surfing
In 1956, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz stepped away from a successful medical practice and began a lifelong surfing odyssey that grew to include his wife Juliette,...
British River Navigations
Inland Cuts, Fens, Dikes, Channels and Non-tidal Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Britain's rivers deserve to be better known. Teeming with wildlife, steeped in history, sporting bridges, docks and stunning architecture, not to mention supporting riverside pubs, waterways museums and a variety of places of interest, they are the country's essential arteries, connecting inland Britain...
by Chuck Warner
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Learn how eight of the greatest male swimmers in recent swimming history progressed from summer league swimming to collectively win 28 Olympic Gold Medals.Included are technique tips from the swimmers themselves and practice samples from each stageof their development. The legendary swimmers...
The Canal Guide
Britain's 50 Best Canals
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
This attractive guidebook shows off just how rich our waterways heritage is. Picking out Britain's 50 most beautiful and interesting canals, Stuart Fisher gives a lively background to the history, wildlife, pubs and nearby attractions of each waterway. Each of the 50 chapters also features a map,...
Voice of a Voyage
Rediscovering the World During a Ten-year Circumnavigation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In 2001, sixty-year old author Doann Houghton-Alico and her husband embarked on a ten-year sailing circumnavigation visiting forty-one countries and sailing over 43,000 nautical miles. As an award-winning author of both technical books and poetry, she brings her love of research into the tangents...
by Ben Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Hillbilly landlubber Ben Gray and his sons launched a 55 hp boat near their ranch in Alberta. 2,000 miles with portages and groundings to the Arctic Ocean. Then west past Alaska to the Bering St and turned back North and East through the ice choked NW Passage to circumnavigate the world in 2005. From...
Relentless Spirit
The Unconventional Raising of a Champion
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What does it take to become a champion? Gold medalist Missy Franklin, along with her parents, D.A. and Dick, tell the inspirational and heartwarming story of how Missy became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, something they accomplished by doing things their own way and making...
by Scott A. Riewald, Scott A. Rodeo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
In a sport where victory is often determined by a fraction of a second, it’s obvious why one of the most sought-after secrets is how to swim faster. However, as the world’s most renowned coaches, athletes, trainers, and researchers know, there is no secret—just science.
Science of Swimming...
Swimming Front Crawl
A step-by-step, simple approach to Swimming Front Crawl with video content to illustrate techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
This detailed and informative guide to swimming front crawl is ideal for anyone wishing to learn a new technique as well as those who are looking for ways to increase the power and efficiency of their existing front crawl stroke. A clear and concise step-by-step approach supported with high...
by Rod Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
From the best-selling author of four classic UK diving books, comes The Darkness Below - a collection of absorbing adventures gained from a lifetime in diving. As one of the UK's leading Technical Divers, Rod takes the reader on a spellbinding and gripping journey, from first beginnings as a novice...