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This book of non-fishing, recreational powerboats, a step up from the very basic Power Boating for Dummies, offers the avid boater or novice a comprehensive overview of the hobby. Packed inside are how-to articles, builder histories and addresses, and engine option details. This 2002 publication is being offered at a special low price prior to the 2010 release of an updated edition.
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If you are ready to get serious about SCUBA diving as a career choice, let this book be a fast-pass through some of the mental, motivational and administrative obstacles that many of us have had to overcome when becoming a diving professional.
This book covers everything you need to know to turn your life around and to start teaching SCUBA diving professionally. Some of the chapters include:
1. 7 Habits of a Successful Dive Instructor
2. Getting...
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La Copa América nació en el siglo XIX como un reto entre un barco estadounidense (el America) y catorce ingleses –la excolonia contra la metrópoli–. Con el paso de los años se ha consolidado como la principal competición de vela del planeta, con una feroz final mano a mano entre dos veleros en la que vence la tecnología más innovadora y la tripulación mejor y más lista.
Los navegantes están entre los mejores del mundo, y el prestigio...
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Two by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge.
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what...
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Hoy en día es bastante difícil creer que alguna vez existió un tiempo en el que la mayoría de los hombres se comportaban precisamente como eso, como hombres. Actualmente las redes sociales, las canciones populares, las películas (comedia romántica), Disney o el internet en general, nos están programando para deja de un lado nuestra masculinidad El hombre moderno necesita reestructurar su mente, su forma de pensar y su disciplina. En el objetivo...
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Bradt's Paddling France is the first practical guidebook to explore the whole country by SUP (stand-up paddleboard), canoe and kayak – waterborne activities enjoying a popularity boom. Experienced paddleboarder, travel writer and local resident Anna Richards has toured the country's rivers, lakes and coasts to handpick 40 outstanding itineraries for water-based exploration that suit all abilities from novice to expert, enabling readers to experience...
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Triathlon Swimming reveals the rewarding and rigorous Tower 26 program for mastering open-water swimming by the world's leading open-water swimming coach Gerry Rodrigues and former pro triathlete Emma-Kate Lidbury.Triathlon swimming is unique in its challenges and physical and mental limits. Over his lifetime of over 100 open-water swim race wins and over 30 years of coaching, Rodrigues has perfected the art and science of open-water swimming. His...
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A Master Storyteller
"Something is out there that doesn't have a name," writes veteran sailor and writer Christian Williams as he invites us along once again on a 5,000-mile voyage of discovery around the North Pacific. Equipped with a new boat, a well-stocked toolbox and the entire history of philosophic thought, he takes us as crew through squalls and calms deep into a laboratory of the universe that exists only out of sight of land. Funny, erudite...
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Cuántos nudos existen, cuántos son verdaderamente útiles, cuáles nos serán de utilidad en casa, o para ir en barca, hacer alpinismo, salir a pescar, etc.
Nudos para unir, colgar, enlazar, regular, etc.
Gazas, ayustes, ligadas, accesorios, guías, sujeciones, sistemas de enganche, herramientas, etc.
Un libro ilustrado: en cada secuencia de los dibujos y de las fotografías veremos «nacer», con nuestros propios ojos, el nudo que nos interesa...
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A soulful collection of nearly four decades of surf writing. In Deep transports readers into the heart of the surfing world's culture through the eyes and imagination of a master storyteller. George's personality profiles, perspective essays, and travel accounts achieve a level of frank articulation that, much like the works of Theroux, Krakauer, and Finnegan, reveal as much about the man as it does his subjects. Peak transcendence and quiet reflection,...
12) Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory
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Gold in the Water is a nonfiction sports narrative that chronicles the journey of a group of America's finest swimmers and coaches as they vied to compete in the 2000 Olympic Games.
In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as two best friends (a mentor and his protégé) reach the top of the world rankings and unexpectedly find themselves direct...
13) Surfing Shake-Up
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Rosie loves nothing more than spending her summers surfing while staying with her Aunt Hazel in Australia. But this summer, her cousin Flora is coming to visit, too, and Aunt Hazel wants Rosie to teach Flora how to surf. Trouble is, Flora has a history of being mean to Rosie-and it doesn't take long to figure out that Flora hasn't changed one bit. Can Rosie set aside her hard feelings and teach her cousin to ride the waves? Or will this shake-up to...
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Along the Maine coast, the distinctive lobster boat is ubiquitous, and fisherman devote nearly as much time and effort naming their boats as their children. In this charming little volume, Victor Cole has reached out to hundreds of lobstermen and collected the stories behind the names of their boats. Some of the names are of children, or of loved ones who've passed on; some are religious or inspirational, and some are downright funny. But the stories...
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Moving
across the world was Salma's first big adventure. Now you can join her
on even more adventures in her new home-from cooking Syrian food, to
becoming a big sister, and more!
Book Three: Salma Joins the Team
Salma dreams of becoming a champion swimmer like her hero, Olympian Yusra Mardini. So when she signs up for her school's swim club, it feels like her dreams could come true . . . until mean comments from older girls at the pool...
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America's Girl is an intimate look at the life and trials of Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 not only became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, but broke the record set by men.
The feat so thrilled America that it welcomed her home with a ticker tape parade that drew two million people. This fascinating portrait follows Ederle from her early days as a competitive swimmer through her gold medal triumph at the 1924 Olympics, to the...
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Experience a kaleidoscope of real-life underwater missions, ranging from ancient ruins covered by reservoirs in the desert Southwest to a World War II submarine off the Alaskan coast; from the Isle Royale shipwrecks in the frigid Lake Superior to the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor; from the HL Hunley, the first submarine in history to sink an enemy ship, in Charleston Harbor to the ships sunk by atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll, and much more.
20) Chasing the Wind
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Stacy Kent lived in a small town in North Carolina. New Bern was her hometown and quite beautiful sitting on the Neuse River. Stacy was a horsewoman, a moderately successful writer, and happy with her career.
One morning she got a telephone call that changed her life forever. Her cousin had passed away. She must travel to Boca Ratan, FL for the funeral and to wrap up loose ends of the estate. When she arrives, she is informed that she is the sole...
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