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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Gena Showalter |
Publisher | : HQN Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1488026769 |
Females young and old, beautiful and plain crave Valerian's touch. None can resist his blatant sensuality and potent allure—until he steals Shaye Holling from a Florida beach and holds her prisoner in his underwater kingdom. The cynical Shaye wants nothing to do with the mighty warlord, but she's inexplicably drawn to him. For underneath the warrior's arrogant beauty lies a complex and powerful man. A man whose caress is like fire…. Now Valerian must fight for the privilege of claiming her as his own. Because there's one thing Shaye doesn't know…. That when a nymph discovers his true mate, she's his for life.
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
Author | : Roden Noel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : T. H. EVANS (Temperance Advocate.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Temperance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Catherine Cookson |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781451660067 |
Catherine Cookson author of The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award, leading to her readership quickly spread worldwide, with her many bestselling novels establishing her as one of the most popular contemporary authors. Orphaned at a tender age, Millie Forester is adopted by "Raggie Aggie" Winkowski, and she suffers misfortune and misplaced love as she grows to adulthood side by side with Aggie's son, Ben, whose love for Millie increases over the years.