Water Sports category: 1998 books
A Woman's Guide to the Sailing Lifestyle
The Essentials and Fun of Sailing off the New England Coast
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
A chance sailing trip with a friend from work led me to wonder if I could learn to sail. After all, Im a woman, and the sailing world seems to favor men. I am not athletic; I didnt grow up in a family where we learned about boating; I would be starting late, since I was in my thirties; and I suffer...
by Renee Petrillo
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
“It was the best of dreams, it was the worst of dreams, it was an age of consulting the nautical experts, it was the age of landlubber foolishness, it was the epoch of determination, it was the epoch of despair, it was the season of hurricanes, it was a spring of beachcombing…”
If you...
Fishes of the Maldives – Indian Ocean
Applicable to Central and Western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Seychelles, Mauritius/Reunion, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Chagos, Laccadives, Cocos Keeling Islands.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The only ebook you need for snorkelling and diving in the Maldives. Over 300 pages of stunning fish photography, concise expert information, diagrams and easy to reference icons. Written by a Marine Biologist Tim Godfrey and and Marine Expert, Rudi Kuiter. This new edition now features Sharks and...
Sailing a Serious Ocean : Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Learn what it takes to cross an ocean from a veteran sailor
In Sailing a Serious Ocean, author John Kretschmer uses his experiences and stories to show you what you will need to across an ocean or go around the world, in fair weather or foul. His true accounts of storms and other challenges...
by Sterling Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
At seventeen, he ran away to sea. By twenty-two, he was the captain of his own brigantine. Discovered by Hollywood, he acted in more than forty motion pictures including THE ASPHALT JUNGLE and DR. STRANGELOVE. He has had three wives, including the famous film star, Madeleine Carroll. During the war...
by Philip Maffetone
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1999
Dr. Maffetone's unique training system for champions proves that the kinder, gentler approach actually works the best. This fitness regimen has worked for champions and non-athletes alike- because it's based on Dr. Philip Maffetone's deep understanding of how the body works. Maffetone has used that...
Life of Brine
A Surfer's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Life of Brine is the memoir of Phil Jarratt, one of the world’s best-known chroniclers of surfing culture, whose lifelong pursuit of the perfect wave has placed him in the midst of some of the most exciting moments in surfing’s modern history. Jarratt, who has often courted controversy...
by Michelle Lombana
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Does your child want to swim in college? There are many things to think about before making a decision and it is easy to get carried along into the recruiting process without analyzing whether it is the right choice. This book covers factors to consider such as:•Does your swimmer want to take on...
by Tim Grollimund
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2017
There literally is no other place like this on earth. It is the only operating undersea research laboratory in the world. As a dive site, it’s sensational since the animals that live underneath and around the habitat are used to divers. It’s pretty easy to get close to the resident goliath groupers,...
by Tim Grollimund
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
I always try to photograph angelfish. My image inventory probably has more angelfish photos than any other group. They are the most colorful and beautiful animals on the reef, in my opinion. Some are very shy, like Rock Beauties. Others have varying degrees of aloofness, depending on the conditions...
by Dick W. Nowakowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Cape Schanck, Australia – a place of underwater wonders. Creatures large and small, skirmishing for life amid swaying plants and rocks at the bottom of the ocean and one lone SCUBA diver struggling against the force of massive waves – too close to slippery rocks. Can he win?
Abandoned
The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition, 1881-1884
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Alden L. Todd’s Abandoned has been called “A model account of perhaps the most ill-fated and certainly the most grimly fascinating episode in the annals of Arctic exploration....” Working extensively with primary sources—official correspondence, diaries, letters, notes by the expedition’s...
All for a Few Perfect Waves
The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For twenty years, Miki "Da Cat" Dora was the king of Malibu surfers—a dashing, enigmatic rebel who dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and who still inspires the fantasies of wannabes to this day. And yet, Dora railed against surfing's sudden post-Gidget popularity and...
by Marie Browne
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Narrow Margins - a laugh-out-loud book which proves that lean times can sometimes be a very positive thing. Faced with the loss of everything following the collapse of the Rover Group, Marie Browne moved her long-suffering husband Geoff, chaotic children and smelly, narcoleptic dog on to a houseboat...