Understanding Lifestyle Sports

(Electronic book text)

This collection of innovative studies represents the first serious academic investigation of 'lifestyle' or 'postmodern' sports, such as snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing. An exciting team of international authors argue that these activities are based around a very different set of assumptions, rules and motivations from traditional competitive sports, with emphasis being on the 'lived experience' and the consumption of new....

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Extreme Running

By Kym McConnell(Hardback)

Running is an inexpensive, convenient and increasingly popular sport, but some take it to the limit.

Alone: The True Story of the Man Who Fought the Sharks, Waves, and Weather of the Pacific and Won

By Gerard D'Aboville(Paperback / softback)

The incredible story of one man's heroic battle against almost impossible odds, Alone tells of d'Aboville's mission to row across the Pacific Ocean. "A gripping story not just of physical endurance but of mental and spiritual fortitude".--Publishers Weekly. Introduction by Paul Theroux. 24 photos, 22 in color. Map.

Fight

By Eugene S Robinson(Electronic book text)

Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better than this." -Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius That's the sentiment that surges just below the surface of Eugene Robinson's Fight - an engrossing, intimate look into the all-absorbing world of fighting. Robinson - a former body-builder, one-time bouncer, and lifelong....

Extreme Landscapes of Leisure: Not a Hap-hazardous Sport

By Patrick Laviolette(Hardback)

Beginning with the rise in colonial explorations and the Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford, this book examines the increasing phenomena of adventure sports such as bungy jumping, cliff jumping or 'tombstoning', surfing and parkour within a framework of positive risk.

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Gobi Runner: Taking a Personal and Professional Challenge to the Desert

(Paperback / softback)

In the midst of a devastating year for his and most businesses, St fan Danis searched for a challenge that would get him in physical and mental shape for what lay ahead, inspire others in similar situations, and raise funds for those in his industry who had fallen on even harder times. With only a vague understanding of what he....

Drinking the Wind: At the Limits of Endurance

By John Tytler Thomson(Paperback)

Running Away From Home: Stories Collected by David Syme

(Paperback)

David Syme is a keen traveller and runner and has combined the two whenever possible to explore foreign lands "on foot". As a linguist he worked for NATO in China, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, while expeditions and holidays have enabled him to explore Africa and the Americas; running shoes were always first into the suitcase. Not a....

Across the Savage Sea: The Epic Journey of the First Woman to Row Across the North Atlantic

By Maud Fontenoy(Paperback / softback)

The first woman to cross the Atlantic from west to east accomplishes the Everest of sea journeys.

Surfing

By Douglas G Booth(Electronic book text)

Surfing legend Greg Noll likens wiping out on a 35-foot wall of water to "going off Niagara Falls without the barrel" and estimates the chances of drowning at "about 80 percent." Could part of the appeal of surfing be that in a sport rife with danger and risk, the only protective gear surfers wear is sunscreen?

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Bear Grylls: Two All-action Adventures: Facing Up / Facing the Frozen Ocean

By Bear Grylls(Paperback)

A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures 'Facing Up' and 'Facing the Frozen Ocean'.

Ultimate Parkour

(Paperback)

Parkour and free-running combine the grace of a gymnast, the virtuosity of a skateboarder and the training of a martial artist. This title presents a visual history of the people, places, moves and cultural references that define this most exciting urban movement.

The Parkour & Freerunning Handbook

By Dan Edwardes(Paperback / softback)

Join the movement Combining the core elements of running, jumping, and climbing with the discipline of the martial artist, the grace of the gymnast, and the virtuosity of the skateboarder, parkour--or freerunning--is more than simply an elegant noncompetitive sport. It's an art form, a philosophy promoting fitness, imagination, community spirit, and ethical, healthy living. "The Parkour and....

Incredible Stunts

(Hardback)

Incredible Stunts is like Fear Factor on steroids. Famed action photographer and photojournalist Jeffery R. Werner has assembled an amazing collection of images from his exclusive archive of photos taken over the past two decades of daredevils and stuntmen pushing themselves to the limit. This is the first full-length, extensive photo book of stunts, extreme sports, and daredevil mayhem created....

To the Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out

(Paperback)

An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport, an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the....

Extreme Sports

By David Orme(Hardback)

Get the facts about extreme sports before reading a story about having to participate in extreme sports...to survive.

Illustrated Guide to Snowmobile Racing

By David Aksomitis & Linda Aksomitis(Paperback / softback)

To the tops of mountains, over water, sand and grass, and of course on snow and ice, snowmobile racers have traversed the toughest terrain to push their sleds to maximum speeds. Competing since the second sled was built, vintage cross country, drag, and ice oval racing have paved the way for today's extreme competition racing at events such as the....

Alone: The Man Who Braved the Vast Pacific and Won

By Gerard D'Aboville(Paperback / softback)

"On July 11, 1991, d'Aboville set out from Chosi, Japan, to row across the Pacific Ocean. One hundred and thirty-four days later, he entered the harbor channel of the Columbia River at Ilwaco, Washington, having rowed some 8000 miles. Although he had rowed the Atlantic from Cape Cod to Brest, France, 12 years earlier, the Pacific proved a greater challenge,....

Gobi Runner

By St Fan Danis(Electronic book text)

In the midst of a devastating year for his and most businesses, St fan Danis searched for a challenge that would get him in physical and mental shape for what lay ahead, inspire others in similar situations, and raise funds for those in his industry who had fallen on even harder times.With only a vague understanding of what he was....

No Ceiling: A Woman's Inspirational Journey to the Top of the World and Beyond

By Heather Swan(Paperback)

Tells the inspirational story of how Heather crashed through her real and imagined barriers to become a fit and powerful athlete at the absolute apex of her sport.