Racing Around

Author : Stephen Cartmell
Publisher : Aesculus Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781904328193
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racing Around Britain written by Stephen Cartmell and published by Aesculus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2004-01-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As relief from his lecturing duties, Stephen Cartmell set off to explore Britain using the cultural melting pot of the U.K. 's 59 racecourses as his staging posts. During his travels, the author observed the frequent absurdity of the British; the peculiarities of their institutions; and developed a satirical critique of one of the country's favourite pastimes. ability to find humour even in the face of petty officialdom, this acclaimed book is not simply a travelogue of racing but a key to understanding Britain and its curiously comical inhabitants. Racegoer, traveler or first time visitor, Stephen Cartmell's stories are sure to add colour to your journey.

Author : Caroline Starr Rose
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807500119
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Race Around the World written by Caroline Starr Rose and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Picture Books of 2019, The Christian Science Monitor A Mighty Girl's 2019 Books of the Year Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Picture Books of 2020 The true story of two women who raced against time—and each other! In 1889, New York reporter Nellie Bly—inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days—began a circumnavigation she hoped to complete in less time. Her trip was sponsored by her employer, The World. Just hours after her ship set out across the Atlantic, another New York publication put writer Elizabeth Bisland on a westbound train. Bisland was headed around the world in the opposite direction, thinking she could beat Bly's time. Only one woman could win the race, but both completed their journeys in record time.

Author : Stephen Cartmell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446465330
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Aintree to York written by Stephen Cartmell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and psychologist Stephen Cartmell set off to explore Britain using the cultural melting pot of the UK's 60 racecourses as his staging posts. During his travels the author observed the frequent absurdity of the British, the peculiarities of their institutions and developed a satirical critique of one of the country's favourite pastimes. With his acute eye for observation, an appreciation of the ridiculous and the ability to find humour even in the face of petty officialdom, this acclaimed book is not simply a travelogue of racing but a key to understanding Britain and its curiously comical inhabitants. Racegoer, traveller or first time visitor, Stephen Cartmell's colourful stories are sure to entertain.

Author : Stuart J. Murphy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064462447
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racing Around written by Stuart J. Murphy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a long way around Perimeter Path! Mike's brother and sister say he's too young to compete in the 15-kilometer bike race. But if Mike just gets a chance, he knows he can make it all the way around.

Author : John Nauright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159884301X
Total Pages : 2056 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports around the World [4 volumes] written by John Nauright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regions—for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceania—in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of information on the winners of major sporting competitions from around the world. Readers will gain invaluable insights into how sports have been enjoyed throughout all of human culture, and more fully comprehend their cultural contexts. The entries provide suggestions for further reading on each topic—helpful to general readers, students with school projects, university students and academics alike. Additionally, the four-volume Sports Around the World spotlights key charismatic athletes who have changed a sport or become more than just an outstanding player.

Author : Dan DeJager
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736069243
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventure Racing Activities for Fun and Fitness written by Dan DeJager and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beloved romance by master storyteller Kay Hooper, a woman who experiences car trouble in the Rocky Mountains gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon an investigator's stakeout operation. She is taken captive by the handsome, rugged man—not to be released until his investigation is complete. But Teddy quickly discovers that she doesn't much mind being detained by Zach...she's powerfully attracted to him, and she won't rest until he gives in to his own attraction.

Author : Preben Nyeland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393033406
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maxi, the Ultimate Racing Experience written by Preben Nyeland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxi: The Ultimate Racing Experience is the definitive book on maxi boats (the biggest sailboats that race under the maximum IOR Rule).

Author : Michael Huck
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780070308176
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Around the Buoys written by Michael Huck and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide for beginning and intermediate racers who are mired in the bottom or middle of the fleet. With the help of numerous diagrams, readers learn to recognize when they are threatened on the race course and when they must move to realize a potential advantage.

Author : Warren Richey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429924330
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without a Paddle written by Warren Richey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far as Warren Richey knew, his life was on course. A reporter with a beautiful wife and talented son, Richey couldn’t imagine how it could be any better....Then his marriage falls apart and he can’t imagine how it could be any worse. The divorce leaves Richey questioning everything, while struggling to find a way forward. To get his bearings, he enters the first Ultimate Florida Challenge, an all-out twelve-hundred-mile kayak race around Florida. The UFC is less of a race than it is a dare or a threat. The thirty-day deadline sets a grueling, twenty-four-hour-a-day pace through shark- , alligator- , and even python-infested waters. But those twelve hundred miles are only a fraction of a journey that pulls Richey back to when he was embedded with troops in Iraq, reporting on missing children, and hiking the mountains of Montana with his son, and shows him where he went wrong, where he went right, and how to do it better the second time around. Warren Richey’s memoir Without a Paddle is a remarkable physical and emotional journey that cuts to the heart of what it means to be a man, a husband, and a father.

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Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780007253135
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race Around Silver Hatch written by and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop your very own Roary the Racing Car out of its case and open the book to discover the Silver Hatch race track, Farmer Giles' farm, Hare Pin Bend and lots of other Roary pit stops. Then read the story and help Roary win the race! The TV programmes feature the voice talents of Peter Kay and Sir Stirling Moss.