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Avast, ye! For anyone who has dreamed of hitting the high seas, manning a crew, brandishing a cutlass, or burying treasure, here’s The Pirate Handbook. Part how-to, part illustrated history, this detailed manual gives insight into every aspect of the pirating life: learn how to make a seaworthy raft, navigate by the stars, brew up a batch of grog, and much more. Featuring a removable replica of an actual pirate map, detailed illustrations, real...
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The nation's rivers connect mountains to sea, communities to natural places, and people to wildlife. America's Wild & Scenic River system recognizes these values. Paddling America provides descriptions for paddling and exploring 50 Wild and Scenic Rivers across the country. Woven throughout the river descriptions will be small anecdotal sidebars touching on the history of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, the adventurers themselves, and tips for paddling....
45) Signalman Jones
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In 1939, young English naval signalman Geoffrey Holder-Jones began his career by surviving a German mine attack in the Thames estuary. World War II took him as naval officer to Iceland, the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, and the United States. Commissioned as a naval officer and given command of his own ship, Jones then patrolled the waters off Canada and Newfoundland before returning to Britain in 1944. This true story, written on the basis of...
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Thrown into freezing Southern Ocean waters on a stormy, moonless night as a boy Chas from Tas survived and was fated to live a life of adventure as a renegade at sea.
Swearing never to take an ordinary job, it's a promise he has kept, voyaging more miles than to the moon one and a half times and back. He has not lived in one country for more than six months for the last forty years, carries his worldly possessions in three small sea bags, takes...
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* La pesca de la trucha no es una simple diversión para quien la practica, sino una auténtica pasión: disfrutar de la luz al amanecer que revela magníficos paisajes, vivir aunque sea por unas horas en estrecho contacto con la naturaleza y sobre todo desafiar a ese pez tan tenaz... son algunos de los aspectos que la convierten en una actividad única, una excelente terapia contra el estrés de la vida cotidiana.
* Con esta práctica guía conocerá...
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On January 1st 2016, author Jerry Hyde, 'the most dangerous therapist in the world', set out on a year-long adventure into the murky underworld of Sin with one objective in mind...to save the world. Join Hyde on an exhilarating journey through hope, despair, love and loss made all, the more twisted by daily micro-doses of psilocybin mushrooms. Listen in on conversations with such disparate and at times desperate characters as national treasure Grayson...
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Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Shackleton and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. Their stoic...
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Pennsylvania is a paddler's heaven and one of America's most blessed states when it comes to total miles of rivers and streams. Add in its many lakes, and there is quite simply all kinds and manner of waters where you can set out in a canoe, kayak, or raft. Paddling Pennsylvania describes the best and most accessible routes-fifty classics in all, from Lake Erie's Presque Isle lagoons to the Allegheny River, from the Susquehanna to the Delaware. Carefully...
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With this new, fresh, and highly readable introduction to sail trim, Dallas Murphy's PLAIN SAILING goes far to demystify the often intimidating aspects of sailing that confront the unseasoned sailor. By focusing on "wind awareness," Plain Sailing will help all sailors better understand the principles and practice of sail trim-how to adjust sails so they interact most efficiently with the wind. There is a direct relationship between sailing efficiency...
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The most comprehensive guide for sea kayakers of all levels
First published in 1976, The Complete Book of Sea Kayaking is a comprehensive guide for the beginner and an invaluable reference book for the experienced sea kayaker. Originally penned by the late Derek C. Hutchinson, an international authority on sea kayaking, it describes equipment, basic and advanced techniques, weather and navigation, and is illustrated throughout by the author's own...
54) Wager
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Wrenched by tragedy from a peaceful and respectable middle-class home in Victorian London, Hannah Kemball finds herself accompanying her father, Captain "Cracker Jack" Kemball, aboard the tea-clipper Erl King on a voyage to China.
It is 1869. In shanghai and Foochow, the crack British tea-clippers are loading the season's tea, preparing for the annual race to bring their valuable cargoes and the fortunes of their swaggering crews halfway around the...
55) Kayaking
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For a generation, the “Basic Illustrated” series has been as much a part of the outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy references for the veteran, these volumes distill years of knowledge into affordable and portable books. Whether you're planning a trip or thumbing for facts in the field, “Basic Illustrated’ books tell you what you need to know. “Basic Illustrated Kayaking”...
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Paddling Pacific Northwest Whitewater is the definitive guide to the best rivers and creeks for kayaking and rafting in Washington and Oregon-home to some of the most fun (and challenging) whitewater in the world. Including over 240 detailed run descriptions from local area paddlers who know these rivers and creeks better than anyone else, this is the only book you'll ever need for a lifetime's-worth of paddling in the Pacific Northwest.
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In the best of times, the lives, health, and well-being of transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) people are precarious. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressures have increased significantly, thus worsening their condition.
The 2015 National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that TGNB people were unemployed at three times the rate of the general population and four times for TGNB people of color. Household incomes of TGNB people were found to...
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The rivers of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hold a wealth of splendor from Annapolis to Worcester County. Paddling Maryland and Washington, D.C. features fifty river trips for avid paddlers, floaters, and anglers searching for the perfect paddle, whether it is a half-day or a full-day trip. History buffs will appreciate the sidebars detailing local information.
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This is the story of a year in the life of a small old wooden gaff rigged sailing yacht. It contains details of the maintenance needed to keep a 76 year old boat going, as well as what can do wrong over the course of a season, with both boat and crew. We have owned Robinetta since 2007, and this is the year when things went wrong, as we went on our most ambitious cruise to date, from the river Blackwater in Essex, round to Cowes, and back.
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Get Ready Now! 12 Immediate Actions To Take Before Your Next Rowing Season was written with one thought in mind - to help you reduce the hassles that so often occur during a rowing season. Many of those troubles can be easily prevented. Written by expert rowing coach Mike Davenport, Ed.D, Get Ready Now is written for anyone in rowing who wants to spend more time rowing and coaching, and less time fixing and repairing. Get Ready Now! - The Get Ready...
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