The Laugh of the Water Nymph
Author | : Doug Ammons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Kayak touring |
ISBN | : 9780976158004 |
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Author | : Doug Ammons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Kayak touring |
ISBN | : 9780976158004 |
Author | : Doug Ammons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2009-02-10 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : 9780976158011 |
Twenty-five essays by world class kayaker Doug Ammons discuss what we learn from whitewater when we enter the world of adventure. As stated in the Preface, ¿the adventure sports allow us to take part in the very forces that sculpted the world around us,¿ and they form the modern Dao. The essays discuss risk, where fear comes from and how it can be overcome, beginner¿s mind, openness to experience, the real measure of skill, being alone, martial arts concepts applicable to kayaking, confronting limits and knowing ourselves.Ammons has a PhD in psychology and 35 years as a world class whitewater kayaker. He was named in 2010 by Outside Magazine as "one of the top ten game changers in adventure since 1900" for his extreme descents. The book was named by the Wall Street Journal in 2010 as ¿One of the top six adventure books.¿
Author | : Michele Jaffe |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2001-06-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0671027425 |
When Sophie Champion first meets the notorious "Earl of Scandal" Crispin Foscari, it's while she's looking for clues in the suspicious death of a loved one. But when she's implicated in a murder, her only hope lies with Crispin--who has a mysterious agenda of his own. Locked in mutual mistrust, Sophie and Crispin strike a seductive bargain that binds them together in their search for answers.
Author | : Wickliffe W. Walker |
Publisher | : Steerforth |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2023-09-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1586423738 |
A dramatic narrative tour of 10 of the world’s most incredible whitewater adventures—spanning 5 continents and 40 years—guided by a legendary whitewater trailblazer This fascinating history of daring whitewater explorers stands alongside classic works on mountaineering, outdoor survival, and extreme sports Perfect for fans of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Candice Millard’s River of the Gods In 10 thrilling real-life adventure stories, pioneering whitewater explorer Wick Walker examines what lured a generation of incredibly daring pioneers into some of Earth’s most wondrous yet forbidding river canyons: below Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Great Bend of the Tsangpo in Tibet, Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze, the flanks of Mount Everest, and more Loaded with great moments and personal stories, Wick details what these adventurers found there, and within themselves. The extraordinary characters, driven by different motives and visions, but united by their compulsion to seek the unknown and the pulse of free-flowing water, are as remarkable as the daunting geography and conditions they confront. Whitewater sport today stands side-by-side with mountaineering in participation and public attention, yet it has lagged in generating its own literature. Torrents As Yet Unknown will help fill that gap for readers interested in human drama played out against great natural challenges. Mountaineering history is deep and its literature rich, but whitewater adventurers approach and experience the same forbidding terrain from a different vantage, between the steep walls of their canyons and atop powerful torrents of cascading water.
Author | : Menelaos Stephanidēs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9789604250486 |
Author | : T. H. EVANS (Temperance Advocate.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Temperance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Iulia Jilinschi |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-06-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781720760313 |
"THE TEAR AND THE SMILE OF A WATER NYMPH" IS A FANTASY FAIRY TALE, AN INTERESTING AND EXCITING BOOK IMPREGNATED WITH THE SPIRIT OF MYSTICISM AND ADVENTURE. THE AUTHOR SKILLFULLY FILLS THE TEXT WITH DETAILS WHICH GIVES THE BOOK SOMETHING SPECIAL AND KEEPS THE READER IN SUSPENSE. SURPRISINGLY THE AUTHOR DOES NOT DRAW ANY CONCLUSIONS. SHE IS HAPPY AND UPSET, HAS FUN AND IS SAD, LIGHTS UP AND COOLS, ALONG WITH HIS HEROES. A CERTAIN FEATURE IS FELT, AN ATTEMPT TO GO BEYOND THE BASIC IDEA AND INTRODUCE THAT UNIQUENESS, THANKS TO WHICH THERE IS A DESIRE TO REREAD THE BOOK. SKILFUL USE OF VISUAL IMAGES BY THE WRITER CREATES A FUNDAMENTALLY NEW TRANSFORMED WORLD, ENERGETIC AND SATURATED WITH COLORS. WITH THE HELP OF INSIGNIFICANT DETAILS, GRADUALLY GROWS THE MAIN IDEA, CONVINCING THE READER OF THE REALITY OF WHAT HAS BEEN READ. THE RIDDLE LIES ON THE SURFACE, BUT THE KEY TO GUESSING IS BARELY PERCEPTIBLE, CONSTANTLY ESCAPING WITH THE APPEARANCE OF NEW DETAILS OF THE PLOT. IN ITS EMOTIONALITY, THIS BOOK HAS NO EQUAL. THE READERS WILL FEEL THE HEAT OF PASSION, MEANNESS AND NOBILITY OF PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE MAIN HEROINE. THE MAIN PLOT OF THIS BOOK IS LOVE AND PERSONAL LIFE OF THE HEROES, WHERE THEY COME ACROSS THE BELIEFS OF COUNTRIES WHERE THE BELIEF IN WATER NYMPHS, GHOSTS AND OTHER MYTHICAL PEOPLE LIVES. THE MAIN CHARACTER DOES NOT GET EVERYTHING QUITE SMOOTHLY; THE FATE DOES NOT STOP SENDING HER TESTS. DEEPLY CAPTURES THE UNFORESEEN, HARD-TO-PREDICT FATE OF THE HEROINE AND HER CHILDREN. TOGETHER WITH THE HEROES OF THE NOVEL YOU WILL ADMIRE VIENNA, CONSTANTA, SOFIA, LONDON AND THE DANUBE DELTA AND THE BEAUTIFUL ALPINE MOUNTAINS, AS LIFE THROWS THE HEROINE, HER FRIENDS AND ENEMIES IN DIFFERENT ENDS OF THE WORLD. MAKE SURE, DEAR READERS, HOW DEEPLY, SENSUALLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY, EACH PAGE OF THE BOOK IS DESCRIBED, THAT IT SEEMS THAT ALL THE STRINGS OF THE SOUL ARE TOUCHED. EVERYTHING IS DESCRIBED IN A PARTICULARLY EMOTIONAL, MYSTICAL AND GENTLE TEMPERAMENT OF THE HEROINE. SHE IS DELICIOUS, EVEN AFTER MANY TRIALS, THROUGH WHICH SHE PASSES, AND THERE IS A RESPECTABLE FORCE IN HER. SHE FINDS LOST LOVE AND FAMILY HAPPINESS, NEXT TO HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN. SUCCESSFULLY CHOSEN TIME OF EVENTS, HELPS THE AUTHOR TO GO DEEPER INTO THE PROBLEMS, AND RAISE A NUMBER OF VITALLY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, WHICH IS WORTH THINKING ABOUT TODAY.
Author | : L. Dougall |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2020-07-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752312831 |
Reproduction of the original: The Mermaid by L. Dougall
Author | : Julian Hawthorne |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
One of the tales, it should be added, is a mere jeu d’esprit, the presence of which in the collection is justifiable only on the plea that it makes believe to be what the others are—relieving a note too monotonously sounded by lowering it to the key of mockery. Possibly, nevertheless, it may turn out to be the float which will save the weightier portion of the cargo from going too speedily to the bottom. All the stories have appeared, during the last four years, in various periodicals, to the editors of which my acknowledgments are due for leave to reproduce them.
Author | : Todd Balf |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-06-16 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 030787446X |
It was the ultimate whitewater adventure on the Mount Everest of rivers, and the biggest challenge of their lives.... October 1998 an American whitewater paddling team traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." On Day 12 of that trip, the team's ace paddler, one of four kayakers on the river, launched off an eight-foot waterfall and flipped. He and his overturned kayak spilled into the heart of the thunderous "freight training" river and were swept downstream, never to be seen again. The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of this ill-fated expedition, a fascinating exploration of what propelled these kayakers to take on the seething big water and perilous Himalayan terrain of the deepest gorge on the planet. This was the magical Shangri-la of legend, a 140-mile-long canyon framed by 25,000-foot snowcapped peaks, a place of unimaginable beauty called Pemako in ancient Buddhist texts that was rumored to contain mammoth waterfalls. At the close of the twentieth century, an end-to-end descent of the gorge filled the imaginations of some of the best boaters in the world, who saw in the foam and fury of the Tsangpo's rapids the ultimate whitewater challenge. For Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, extreme whitewater pioneers, best friends, and trip leaders, the Tsangpo adventure with Doug Gordon, Olympic medal-winning paddler Jamie McEwan (Tom's brother), and Roger Zbel was the culmination of a twenty-five-year quest. Fueled by narratives of early explorers, Walker and McEwan kept their dream alive and waited until the Chinese government opened the gorge to Westerners. With financial backing from the National Geographic Society, the group was finally good to go in 1998. Swollen to three times the size they had expected because of record rains and heavy snowmelt, the Tsangpo lived up to its fearsome reputation. On numerous occasions the team questioned whether to continue, but chose to press forward. The Last River probes beyond the extreme sports clichés and looks at the complex personal and intellectual reasons for the seemingly irresistible draw of Tibet's Great River. For Walker, Gordon, Zbel, and the McEwans -- husbands, fathers, friends, and brothers -- the Tsangpo wasn't a run toward death but a celebration of life, adventure, and the thing that tied them to one another -- awe-inspiring rivers. The Last River is also a riveting journey to one of the world's wildest and most alluring places, a thrilling book that invites us into the Himalayas of Jon Krakauer's classic, Into Thin Air, but from a totally new perspective -- on a historic river so remote that only the most hardy and romantic souls attempt to unlock its mysteries. Visit www.randomhouse.com/features/lastriver