Water Sports category: 1998 books
Ice with Everything
In climbing mountains or sailing the seas one often has to settle for less than one hoped.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
‘For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mountainous regions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s fourteenth book describes three more of those...
The Field Guide to Knots
How to Identify, Tie, and Untie Over 80 Essential Knots for Outdoor Pursuits
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
A Fasten-ating Guide to Knots for Every Adventure!
The perfect knot can make any job quicker, easier, and safer—whether you need to build a shelter, tether a horse, rappel down a cliff, or moor a boat. In The Field Guide to Knots, veteran outdoorsman Bob Holtzman helps you:
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by Ben Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Fancy a career change? Looking for something different? Wanting to travel the world and save money? Well may be super yachting could be for you?
This guide is aimed at those considering entry into the super yacht industry to help increase their knowledge into this highly competitive industry....
Salty Dog Talk
The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in
everyday English have a nautical origin. This fascinating and charming
pocket book explains the seafaring beginnings of over 200 such phrases- colourful, bizarre and surprising - and how they came ashore.
Just a few examples are:
Chock-a-block
Chance...
Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
There were too many degrading disasters, mortifying mishaps and groan-worthy gaffes for one collection, so following on from Yachting Monthly's Confessions, here is another wonderful collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.
For...
A Week on the Broads
Four Victorian gents at sail on a Norfolk gaffer in 1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the Norfolk Broads. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books.
The...
by Shaun Tomson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life, world champion surfer Shaun Tomson shares the life lessons he's gathered from decades of surfing-from his boyhood adventures in South Africa to the world tour in the late 1970s to the business world today. For Tomson, surfing is a hobby,...
by Jay Gitomer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Wind Strategies for Kayakers helps paddlers use the wind to their advantage. This booklet tells you everything you need to know about wind effects on your boat and how to use the wind to improve your performance. Loaded with practical advice and plenty of diagrams, this booklet will help you turn a negative into a positive and take your sport to the next level.
by Leonard Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Testimonials
5/5 Stars ***** Very good book: Very good and concise book if you want to learn more about Rolex in a short time. (Zeer goed boek: Zeer goed en beknopt boek als je in korte tijd meer wilt weten over rolex.) (Dieter B. Oktober 17. 2017)
5/5 Stars ***** MUY BUENO.« (Juan...
The Windsurf Girl
A story of intrigue, avarice and romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Fran is desperate to escape city life and her husband, who she suspects is having an affair. She flees with her little girl to a remote beach hut on the windswept shores of the Suffolk coast. When she is followed there by her brother, sister-in-law Annabel and the outrageously seductive Lydia, village...
by Miriam Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Swimming can look intimidating if you've never learned how to do it, but it's possible for just about anyone to do it. Here's how to get started.
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by Alona Feroze
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Join Kailea the Koala as she braves the waves and learns to kite board.
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Top Luxury Yachts in the World: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating Top...
How to Abandon Ship
The World War II Classic That Can Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
“Written from the voice of experience . . . give this informative survival guide a try if you have any plans to go sailing” (Listverse,“Top 10 Bizarre Books”).
Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker who survived nineteen days in a lifeboat in heavy seas and...