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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

In open water now, I killed the engine, unfurled the genoa, and let the boat coast quietly on the breeze while I tried to raise a marine operator on the ...
( Category: Sailing March 25,2014 )
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:Chris Stewart

NIGHT BEGAN TO FALL and the pale cliffs of the Kent coast were replaced by distant lines of light. With the deepening of the darkness the sea, too, vanished, and ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Lynne Cox

I returned to UCSB to complete my junior year of college. That winter I received a letter from Sandy Blewett, the swimmer I had met a few years before in ...
( Category: Swimming March 25,2014 )
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Daniel James Brown [Brown, Daniel James]

PART FOUR 1936 Touching the Divine The 1936 varsity crew Left to right: Don Hume, Joe Rantz, Shorty Hunt, Stub McMillin, Johnny White, Gordy Adam, Chuck Day, Roger Morris. Kneeling: ...
( Category: Olympic Games March 25,2014 )
A wolverine is eating my leg by Tim Cahill
epub |eng | 1989-10-22 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

The cable was dragged over the ice and fixed to the crane, which strained against the weight of the twenty-six-thousand-pound grader. The cable sawed a line through the ice, and ...
( Category: Sailing March 25,2014 )
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
epub |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:David Cordingly [Cordingly, David]

The latter method was called “woolding,” after the word used to describe the binding of cords around a mast. It was a favorite pirate torture because it was fast and ...
( Category: Caribbean & West Indies March 25,2014 )

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