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Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing
Erin Beresini · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A?fun, funny, fist-pumping?romp through the thriving new fitness culture of obstacle course racing? Obstacle course racing is the fastest-growing sport in U.S. history. Every week, thousands of marathoners, CrossFitters, and casual weekend warriors shell out money to run through mud and fire,... |
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Salt, Sweat, Tears: The Men Who Rowed the Oceans
Adam Rackley · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A riveting first-person account and history of rowers who have attempted to navigate across the AtlanticMore people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters... |
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious... |
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Connecticut gridiron : football minor leaguers of the 1960s and 1970s.
William J Ryczek · Mcfarland
Pages: 376
Format: Book
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"This narrative history of minor league football teams in Connecticut during the 60s and 70s is based on extensive newspaper and periodical research and interviews with nearly 70 former players, broadcasters and journalists. Now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, these men share their stories... |
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Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game
ARCHETYPE. · Crown Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In Masters of Modern Soccer, Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl asks: How do some of the game's smartest figures master the craft of soccer? By profiling players in every key position (American phenomenon Christian Pulisic, Mexican superstar Javier "Chicharito" Hernández,... |
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Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete
Joan Steidinger · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Sisterhood in Sports How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of all kinds of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls... |
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Racing to the Finish: My Story
DALE EARNHARDT JR · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn't know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He'd dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes - no two are the same.... |
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Sea Kayaking and Stand Up Paddling Connecticut, Rhode Island, and the Long Island Sound
David J Fasulo · Falcon Guides
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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The kayak touring, stand up paddling, and kayak fishing along the Connecticut and Rhode Island coast is some of the finest in the country. Most of these waters are protected from large ocean swells, while ocean currents allow for lively waters and abundant sea life. These conditions permit... |
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Miracle at Fenway: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season
Saul Wisnia · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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BEFORE THEY BECOME THE 2013 WORLD CHAMPIONS, THERE WAS THE SEASON THAT BROKE THE CURSE AND STARTED IT ALL…The players and coaching staff of the 2004 Boston Red Sox are now and forever, legends. After all, it had been eighty-six years since Boston last won a World Series, a fact anybody... |
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Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea
Nic Compton · Adlard Coles
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds--and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered... |
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The Art of Kayaking: Everything You Need to Know About Paddling
Nigel Foster · Falcon Guides
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
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The Art of Kayaking is the distilled essence of a lifetime of kayak instruction at all skill levels around the world, with the added insights gained from years of designing kayaks, paddles, and kayaking equipment. This comprehensive kayaking manual by one of the biggest names in kayaking... |
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Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
RJ Young · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A story of race, guns, and self-protection in America today, through the quest - funny and searing - of a young black man learning to shoot a handgun better than a white personThe most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman... |
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