Rowing to Alaska and Other True Stories
Author: Wayne McLennan
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extraordinary Hemingway-esque life story
Author: Wayne McLennan
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extraordinary Hemingway-esque life story
Author: Jill Fredston
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-10-10
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780865476554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jill Fredston chronicles the experiences she has had while traveling through the Arctic and sub-Arctic with her oceangoing rowing shell and her husband.
Author: Jordan Hanssen
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594856358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On June 10, 2006, four college friends stepped into a 29-foot rowboat as the only American competitors in the first North Atlantic Rowing Race. Hurricane-level winds, giant ocean eddies, passing freighters, and sharks are all elements of the journey, while tension on board comes to a head on Day 17--with another 55 days to go--when the crew realizes their supplies are running out and they must drastically limit their food--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Betty Lowman Carey
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now available in paperback, Bijaboji is a BC bestseller and a classic of boating literature.
Author: Daniel J. Boyne
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-08-23
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1493043552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Harvard University coach and acclaimed rowing author, Dan Boyne, tells a humorous story of his first year of freshman crew, including a sub plot of personal redemption against an insufferable football player who has bullied him throughout high school. After being accepted at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, Boyne decides to take up rowing, the only sport that takes place far off campus, on the adventurous waters of The Connecticut River. There, he quickly experiences the unique rigors, rewards, and colorful personalities of the sport, not knowing that his nemesis has decided to try out for crew, at rival school Coast Guard Academy. As racing season approaches, Boyne becomes part of an exceptional freshman lightweight boat, with high hopes to win the National Championships in Philadelphia that year, but his final fears are realized when he discovers that his old high school archenemy is also doing well, and rowing in the very same position as he is—the seven seat.
Author: Bill Cox
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1637470967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My Pursuit of the Axis of Evil is about meetings and adventures with interesting people in Asia and Alaska. I followed the advice of a long-ago traveler named Pythagoras, who admonished us to check your prejudices at every port of entry." As a result, I mostly traveled solo, merged with the locals, and got to see, experience, and understand things that would not have been otherwise possible. Plus, the locals can keep you out of trouble and get you out of trouble if you get into it! In Alaska, I sought out native elders and others in the far corners of this enormous state, street people, and the many interesting and famous people visiting or passing through. And high-level politicians—often at the opposite end of the political and social issues spectrum than me. I learned a lot, made new friends, and often got to see things from a different perspective. Encounters were overwhelmingly positive, and it is these people to whom I dedicate My Pursuit of the Axis of Evil. I commend you for your natural curiosity and desire to go out into the world and see for yourself. Pursuit of the Axis of Evil is a great primer on how to engage and interact with the incredible variety of people we meet on international travel - people that appear on the surface to be very different from you and me. Robert DeLaurentis, Polar and Equitorial Circumnavigator/Citizen of the World. "
Author: Helen Moss
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2023-11-28
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1250792541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's the winter of 1924 and a diptheria outbreak is threatening the population of Nome, Alaska. The only way to stop the deadly illness from causing a full blown epidemic is to immediately deliver one million units of the diptheria antitoxin to the affected communities ––a task that seems impossible given that the only way to reach any place in Alaska at this time of year is by dog sled. The stakes are high, and the snow is piling higher. Will the antitoxin make it in time? Or will the infection spread faster than they can treat it... Follow along as Balto and Togo lead the way in this race against time to get the antitoxin and save lives.
Author: Jill A. Fredston
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0374281807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jill Fredston chronicles the experiences she has had while traveling through the Arctic and sub-Arctic with her oceangoing rowing shell and her husband.