Cycling S Greatest Misadventures

Author : Erich Schweikher,Paul Diamond
Publisher : Casagrande Press LLC
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cycling
ISBN : 9780976951629

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Cycling's Greatest Misadventures by Erich Schweikher,Paul Diamond Pdf

Cyclings Greatest Misadventures is the first book to collect jaw dropping true stories of not only pros but average bikers whose experiences range from terrifying to comical to downright bizarre. The book contains 25 true, gripping, and sometimes unbelievable stories of crashes, freak accidents, animal attacks, meltdowns, race sabotages and bad judgment calls that bring to life the strange things that happen once people step on the pedals of their road, mountain, or commuter bikes. Youll read about a mountain biker stampeded by a herd of cattle; A man who attempted to jump the Great Wall of China on a bicycle; An engineer who finds hope riding in the rubble left by Hurricane Katrina, and many more. The stories will bring you to the edge of your seat, warm your heart, make you laugh and leave you shaking your head with disbelief. Follow up book to the successful Surfings Greatest Misadventures by Casagrande Press.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bicycle racing
ISBN : UCSC:32106019438834

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Velo News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Grady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1075930626

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One Day Ahead by Richard Grady Pdf

"absolutely fantastic read. Couldn't put it down" "a lovely account of real achievement" "very well written and funny" "an honest and humorous book" "really enjoyed following the One Day Ahead team around France" One Day Ahead: A Tour de France Misadventure It didn't even seem like a good idea when first suggested so how did Richard Grady get hooked into a 5000 kilometre drive around France in a motorhome? Maybe it was the lure of the world's premiere cycle race - The Tour de France - or possibly the desire to help a friend that seduced him but somehow he found himself as a member of the backup team to four riders cycling the Tour route one day ahead of the professional racers. Driving hundreds of kilometres every day, performing a variety of mundane chores and dealing with the vagaries of his travelling companions all combined to create a three week journey he regretted from the start. In this hilarious account Richard relates the misadventures of the 'One Day Ahead' team as they battle with the challenge of cycling the 3,497 km Tour de France route and he and the stalwart Sara battle to give the riders the best possible chance of achieving their goal. Filled with amusing anecdotes and facts this is a fascinating insight into the Tour de France for avid fans and the general reader alike. 'One Day Ahead: A Tour de France Misadventure' was written on the suggestion of his psychologist girlfriend/therapist(!) after Richard struggled for two years to get over the experience. Every book sold helps. Warning: Contains some moaning however this will not be harmful to your health. "cracking read and has got me planning my own cycling adventures" "a Tour de Force. I admire anyone who takes on a challenge like this" "a humorous book with many a chuckle at the woes of the hard done by support team" "Richard made you feel like you were actually there & thankful, given some of the situations they got into, that you weren't!" "by far the best cycling related book I have read in the last few years. I really did not want it to end"

Author : Paul O'Connor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783030248574

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Skateboarding and Religion by Paul O'Connor Pdf

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : San Diego (Calif.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131543063

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San Diego Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jesse Sheidlower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199751556

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The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower Pdf

We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition"? In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force; imagine Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go damn himself" on the Senate floor--it doesn't have quite the same impact as what was really said. Sheidlower cites this and other notorious examples throughout history, from the satiric sixteenth-century poetry of James Cranstoun to the bawdy parodies of Lord Rochester in the seventeenth century, to more recent uses by Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Ann Sexton, Norman Mailer, Liz Phair, Anthony Bourdain, Junot Diaz, Jenna Jameson, Amy Winehouse, Jon Stewart, and Bono (whose use of the word at the Grammys nearly got him fined by the FCC). Collectively, these references and the more than one hundred new entries they illustrate double the size of The F-Word since its previous edition. Thousands of added quotations come from newly available electronic databases and the resources of the OED, expanding the range of quotations to cover British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, and South African uses in addition to American ones. Thus we learn why a fugly must hone his or her sense of humor, why Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau muttered "fuddle duddle" in the Commons, and why Fanny Adams is so sweet. A fascinating introductory essay explores the word's history, reputation, and changing popularity over time. and a new Foreword by comedian, actor, and author Lewis Black offers readers a smart and entertaining take on the book and its subject matter. Oxford dictionaries have won renown for their expansive, historical approach to words and their etymologies. The F-Word offers all that and more in an entertaining and informative look at a word that, while now largely accepted as an integral part of the English language, still confounds, provokes, and scandalizes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131558517

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Poets & Writers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joe Kurmaskie
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781400047987

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Riding Outside The Lines by Joe Kurmaskie Pdf

Like a modern-day Don Quixote, Joe Kurmaskie—bike adventurer, writer, and twelve-year-old boy trapped in a man’s body—wanders the world on two wheels, often with hilarious results, in Riding Outside the Lines. A jaunt through such far-flung locations as Ireland, Australia, Mexico, South America, and beyond, here is a collection of tales woven together with one central theme: the world is a much smaller place when you view it from the seat of a bicycle. Whether he’s weekending in the buff after accidentally stumbling into a nudist colony wedding, knocking back red wine in tin cans with a gun-toting ex–bounty hunter, combing the countryside in a quest to find the all-girl bagpipe squad he met in his dreams, or playing a rousing game of ice golf on the frozen tundra, Joe Kurmaskie writes of his gonzo global trek in a spirit infused with insight, good humor, and optimism. Riding Outside the Lines encourages travel buffs and armchair explorers alike to get on your bike and see the beauty of our planet and the colorful souls who populate it.

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374308896

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A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.

Author : Henry Cole
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781787471061

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A Biker's Life by Henry Cole Pdf

I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car. When you're driving a car, you're not taking part, you're a spectator. You're in a can; if it's cold you turn up the heating, if you're hungry you have a wine gum. You might be looking at what's going on, but you're definitely not a part of it. A BIKER'S LIFE is the dramatic, humorous and candid memoir of one of the most recognisable names in motorcycling. Henry Cole's passion for motorbikes began when, at the age of eight, he was first introduced to a 'man cave'. His great-uncle Redbeard's corrugated iron shed was 'stuffed to the gills with old motorbikes' which Henry helped rebuild and ride. Since then, Henry's life can be charted through the bikes and journeys he has been on - from a stifling public-school education, via many years battling addiction, to the big-sky iconic routes Henry has ridden for over twenty series as presenter of numerous TV shows. This book reminds millions of motorcyclists why their bike gives them the freedom to be exactly who they want to be: to say 'I'm doing my thing.' When you ride a motorbike you become part of a worldwide community of kindred spirits - those of us who will not be pacified by driving a car, but instead live for adventure, escape and the sheer thrill of the throttle.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Arts
ISBN : UIUC:30112108240539

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Sketch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Diamond,Tyler McMahon
Publisher : Casagrande Press LLC
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Aquatic sports injuries
ISBN : 9780976951605

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Surfing's Greatest Misadventures by Paul Diamond,Tyler McMahon Pdf

Surfing's Greatest Misadventures contains thirty of themost engaging, humorous and unbelievable stories ofsurfing life from the past fifty years. Culled fromhundreds of submissions, the non-fiction stories selectedfor this one-of-a-kind collection run the gamut from theterrifying to the comical to the downright bizarre. Thestories ......

Author : Carlo Collodi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1603033939

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Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi Pdf

Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet follows the adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grew longer whenever he told a lie and who wanted more than anything else to become a real boy.As carpenter Master Antonio begins to carve a block of pinewood into a leg for his table the log shouts out, "Don't strike me too hard!" Frightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette. Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. And thus begins the life of Pinocchio, the puppet that turns into a boy.Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet is a novel for children by Carlo Collodi is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio, an animated marionette, and his poor father and woodcarver Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art. But this is not the story we've seen in film but the original version full of harrowing adventures faced by Pinnocchio. It includes 40 illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1955-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015011184283

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Motor Cycling and Motoring by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Pettit
Publisher : Casagrande Press LLC
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780976951667

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Ghost Songs by William Pettit Pdf

Ghost Songs by William Pettit is a collection of evocative yet fleeting poems on the failure and promise of language, romance and faith. These meditations on experience and recollection are often stuttering acceptances. Here is one poem from the collection. One of Us Had Better Go I can proceed North or retreat to from-where-the-clouds-come (there they are, with a storm) or you can come South with me at least halfway just to where the mountain is. I'm sure Tomorrow you'll decide.