Boating: Sport and leisure

Francis Chichester's name is synonymous with the spirit of adventure and courage at its highest level.

In late March of 1958 four men set sail in a thirty-foot ketch, the Golden Rule, for the nuclear-bomb-testing area in the Marshall Islands.

Southeastern Minnesota is a paddlers dream.

The true story of the tragic round-the-world yacht race - now the subject of The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel WeiszIn 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race an incredible test of endurance never before attempted a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop.

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case like no other .

Mit "Segelwetter östliches Mittelmeer" erhalten Wassersportler einen fundierten Einblick in die Themen Wind und Wetter, aber auch Seegang, Strömungen und Temperaturen von der Adria im Westen bis zur türkischen Riviera und Zypern im Osten.

Revierwetter für SeglerMit diesem modernen Wetterhandbuch erhalten Wassersportler einen fundierten Einblick in die Themen Wind und Wetter, aber auch Seegang, Strömungen und Temperaturen im gesamten Ostseerevier – vom Kattegat im Westen bis zum Finnischen und Bottnischen Meeresbusen ganz im Osten und Norden.

Revierwetter für SeglerMit diesem Buch erhalten Wassersportler einen fundierten Einblick in die Themen Wind und Wetter, aber auch Seegang, Strömungen und Temperaturen für den Bereich des westlichen Mittelmeers – von der Straße von Gibraltar im Westen bis zu den Gewässern rund um Sizilien im Osten.

En este nuevo libro, Álvaro relata la travesía que realizó en 2023 entre Santander y Londres con su pequeño velero.

This book starts in Nassau Bahamas with a six-year old's perspective on how calves are born, and ends with the mapping out of a newly discovered million-square-mile WWII battlefield.

Von den Menschen, die im Hamburger Hafen leben und arbeiten, ihrer Geschichte und ihren Geschichten berichten die Reportagen in diesem Buch, bei denen der Leser "ganz nah dran" ist: Man ist u.

Von den Menschen, die im Hamburger Hafen leben und arbeiten, ihrer Geschichte und ihren Geschichten berichten die Reportagen in diesem Buch, bei denen der Leser "ganz nah dran" ist: Man ist u.

This is the essential guide to achieving and maintaining physical fitness and body tone through kayaking.

This guidebook with basic seaman knots and fancy rope work is great for Boy Scouts and boaters alike.

Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography.

It was 1987 when the idea of sailing away into the sunset became a lot more than just a dream.

THE DARK FRIGATE-Winner of the Newbery Medal.

At seventeen, he ran away to sea.

The story of some of Earl Denman's mountaineering exploits to Africa, culminating in his journey in 1947 through Tibet to Everest with Tenzing Norgay (later to become one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest) is here told for the first time.

In "e;Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition,"e; Sir Hubert Wilkins narrates the thrilling account of an unprecedented journey beneath the icy Arctic waters.

Seven League Boots, which was first published in 1935 and his fifth and final book, details American adventurer Richard Halliburton's epic adventures in a variety of remote places.

With his vast collection of photographs and memorabilia, combined with his skill as a writer, Newell truly makes the ships and memories of them become living personalities.

Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton.

First published in 1951, this is the autobiography of Admiral Lord Mountevans, and it is indeed a tale of high spirits.

'Making Waves at River View Cottage is a delightful, well-written novel in an idyllic setting.

THEY FLEW THROUGH THE AIR WITH GREATEST OF EASERichard Halliburton can be counted on to lead his readers into strange places, into hilarious difficulties, into new appreciations of history and romance-and never to qualify his outrageous philosophy of reckless living with a single sober moral.

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It was nine long years since the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine on the north face of Mount Everest.

Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton.

'Mick Dawson's gripping Never Leave A Man Behind, effectively two adventure stories for the price of one, can be justifiably described as "e;unputdownable"e;.