Water Sports category: 1998 books
Surfing
Skills - Training - Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Crowood Sports Guides are the perfect tool for anyone wanting to improve their performance, from beginners learning the basic skills to more experienced participants working on advanced techniques. These practical, no-nonsense guides will help give you that all important advantage. Fully illustrated...
Michael Phelps
The Untold Story of a Champion
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Michael Phelps is an American sports hero, perhaps the greatest Olympic athlete the world has ever known. His unprecedented eight gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics have made him a superstar. But his journey to Olympic immortality is every bit as compelling as his achievements in the pool. From...
by Damian Foxall
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
High risk, adrenaline rushes, extreme weather, knife-edge decisions, rivalries and challenges in the toughest environment are all in a day's work for exceptional Irish sailor, Damian Foxall. Ocean Fever traces his early years as a restless teenager and description of his successes and failures on many teams lifts the lid on this toughest of sports.
All Sail Set
A Romance of the Flying Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Who can love the spread of canvas and the bend of the oak and not thrill to the names of the great clippers built by Donald McKay? Great Republic, Sovereign of the Seas, Lightening, Star of the Empire, and Westward Ho — these names ring from an era when the windships were the queens of the ocean and...
I ragazzi di Brema
28 gennaio 1966, il tragico viaggio della Nazionale italiana di nuoto
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2016
È il 28 gennaio 1966. Sette atleti della Nazionale azzurra di nuoto, insieme al loro allenatore e al giornalista della Rai Nico Sapio, muoiono in un incidente aereo in fase di atterraggio al termine del viaggio che li avrebbe dovuti portare da Milano a Brema per gareggiare in un importante meeting...
by Chris Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Team racing is great for fast, fun and different sailboat racing. It helps develop some key skills for future racing success. This handy companion tells you everything a sailor and coach need to know to enjoy, improve and win at team racing. It describes the most useful moves around the race course,...
by Mark Chisnell
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Are you warm, safe and dry?
Good - because the ocean can be a dangerous place and never more so than when the barometric pressure plummets and huge waves start to rise up from the deep. These five short stories - chilling, funny and scary in turns - will show you just how ugly and dangerous...
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was,...
by Gene Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This book won the Dan Poynter 2011 First-place GOLD Global eBook Award in the Non-Fiction/Sports categorySome time ago, Gene Grossman signed on as a crew-member with some friends of his who were delivering a large sailboat with no navigation electronics from Marina del Rey California, through...
Surfing with Sartre
An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
From the bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, a book that—in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—uses the experience and the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy.
The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul...
Sail
A tribute to the world's greatest races, sailors and their boats
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Whether it is to test the high seas on around-the-world events in the glory of 49er yachts, to cut through choppy coastal waters on a Lazer racing for Olympic Gold or to set team against team in the great cup challenges, Sail is a celebration of the adventure and skill of one of mankind's oldest...
The Golden Rules
Finding World-Class Excellence in Your Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Bob Bowman, best known as the coach for the record-breaking run of Michael Phelps, is one of the most successful coaches in sports history. He is lauded for his intense personality, incredible dedication to his athletes, and his ability to nurture talent in athletes who have the heart and drive to...
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
**A Forbes Best Book of the Year: “Must reading for any yacht-racing aficionado.” —**Frank Deford
The America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports, and one of the most hotly contested. In 2000, Larry Ellison, cofounder and billionaire CEO of Oracle...
Speed Kills
Who killed the Cigarette Boat King, the fastest man on the seas?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
A feature film, Speed Kills, starring John Travolta, based on the book, premieres in fall 2018.
"Ocean racing superstar Don Aronow loved it when writers called him a living legend. His life of adventure is well known. It is his death that baffles police.
He was afraid of nothing,...