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Everything you need to know about waves Classic surf trips, from California to Cornwall Iconic surf movies and legendary image-makers Profiles of surfing greats, including Miki Dora, Nat Young, and Kelly Slater Practical advice-from becoming a greener surfer to travel essentials and how surfing conquered the world!
It was the sport of Polynesian princes whose names have been lost to history. It is a lifestyle, an art, a sacred rite, a belief system-a...
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Un libro para todo aquel que quiera aprender los verdaderos secretos para mejorar su nivel y tener las herramientas adecuadas para transmitirlo a cada persona importante en su vida de la mejor manera posible. Algunos de los temas más interesantes que vas a encontrar: Técnica y enseñanza de cada una de las maniobras iniciales.Progresión metodológica de la virada y la trasluchada (tack & jibe).Top tips del armado de una vela de windsurf.Waterstart:...
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Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells...
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Ever felt like stepping off the treadmill, taking a year off work and sailing a yacht around Australia? Well, if you are reading this then it's a good chance you have, during an occasional daydream, let go the mooring lines of work and family and quietly left the harbour to see what lies around the next headland or what white sandy bay awaits. Rob Manning and Diana Neggo turned that very same daydream into a reality and Telltales is their story. What's...
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In "Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition," Sir Hubert Wilkins narrates the thrilling account of an unprecedented journey beneath the icy Arctic waters. Published in 1931, this book chronicles the daring and ambitious submarine expedition led by Wilkins and sponsored by millionaire Lincoln Ellsworth, aimed at exploring the uncharted territories beneath the North Pole.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, an esteemed Australian explorer...
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"My Life as an Explorer" by Roald Amundsen is a riveting autobiography that chronicles the life and adventures of one of history's greatest explorers. Published in 1927, this work provides an intimate glimpse into the experiences and achievements of the first man to reach the South Pole.
Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer renowned for his polar expeditions, narrates his journey from a young boy fascinated by the Arctic to becoming a pioneering...
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For fans of Tuesdays with Morrie, a memoir of friendship in the face of memory loss, and of preserving one man's story of an incredible year aboard the replica HMS Bounty.
In 1960, Roy Boutilier and twenty-four fellow Nova Scotians set sail for Tahiti aboard the newly built replica sailing ship Bounty. The ship stayed in Tahiti for almost a year while MGM Studios filmed the epic historical drama Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando.
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