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Author : Mary Shideler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Itasca County (Minn.)
ISBN : 0578048914
Mary Shideler is on a quest to paddle all 1,007 lakes in northern Minnesota's Itasca County. This is a collection of her stories and adventures, observations and pictures, from fifteen years of up-close encounters with nature.
Author : Monica Devine
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781602231887
In Kayak Girl a young child learns to cope with serious loss by focusing on something larger than herself. After Jana’s mother dies, she becomes withdrawn. Her grandfather, a carver, pays the girl a visit and finds her unresponsive to his care. He carves a figure of a girl in a kayak and asks Jana to promise that she will watch for the figure after he releases it upriver. Through the following seasons, Jana goes to the river daily and finds strength in the positive memories from her short time with her mother, even as she imagines the distant kayak girl’s struggles. Eventually, they are reunited, and Jana’s spirit is revived. Throughout the book, watercolor illustrations take readers to a magical place along an Alaska river and demonstrate the power of memory and a sense of place in the natural world.
Author : Darcy Gaechter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781643133874
An extraordinary and inspiring chronicle of one woman’s harrowing journey to become the first female to kayak the entire Amazon River. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Amazon Woman shows what incredible feats we are capable of and will encourage people, especially women, across all backgrounds and ages to find the courage and strength to live the life they’ve imagined. This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaetcher’s 35th birthday. The emotional waters that would fester and erupt on the ensuing journey was often more challenging to navigate than the mighty river itself. With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, Darcy would tackle raging Class Five whitewater for twenty-five days straight, barely survived a dynamite-filled canyon being prepared for a new hydroelectric plan. She and her two companions would encounter illegal loggers, narco-traffickers, murderous Shining Path rebels, and ruthless poachers in the black market trade in endangered species. In a desperate attempt meant to give her some pretense of control, Darcy even cut off all her hair before entering Peru’s notoriously dangerous “Red Zone” in hopes of passing for a boy and being seen as less of a target. At once a heart-pounding adventure and a celebration of pushing personal limits, Amazon Woman speaks to all of us feeling trapped by our desk-bound, online society. This a story of finding the courage and strength to challenge nature, cultures, social norms, and oneself.
Author : Debbie Spring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Kayaking
ISBN : 1897235712
Teresa is in a wheelchair after being hit by a car while jogging, she finds peace and power in kayaking, then she rescues a windsurfer and it changes the course of her life.
Author : Simon Stålenhag
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501181436
NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.
Author : Victoria Jason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Canada, Northern
ISBN : 0888013558
"During the summer of 1991 Victoria Jason embarked on a journey together with Don Starkell (author of the bestselling Paddle to the Amazon) and Fred Reffler to kayak the Northwest Passage, starting at Churchill, Manitoba and aiming to reach Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea. When she set out in 1991, Victoria, already a grandmother of two, had only been kayaking for a year and was still recovering from the second of two strokes." "Her 7,500 kilometre journey lasted four years. In the first year, Fred Reffler dropped out due to an injury, and Victoria suffered serious internal bleeding from ulcers. The second year Victoria and Don reached Gjoa Haven together, hauling their kayaks by sled, but Victoria was forced to drop out there, suffering from edema (muscle breakdown) caused by excessive fatigue. Don Starkell continued alone, reaching the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, where he was rescued by authorities suffering from severe frostbite which resulted in the loss of all his fingers and parts of four toes." "Their first two summers together were also a time of tension and conflict between Victoria and Don." "Not content with failure, Victoria returned North the following two years and completed her triumphant journey alone from west to east, paddling from Fort Providence on the Mackenzie River to Paulatuk in 1993, and from Paulatuk to Gjoa Haven in 1994. Among the Inuit people she became known as the Kabloona (the Inuktituk word for stranger) in the Yellow Kayak."--Jacket
Author : Ann Linnea
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671002824
This "engrossing adventure and . . . story of spiritual awakening and inspiration" (Publishers Weekly) tells the true story of Ann Linnea, the first woman to circumnavigate Lake Superior by sea kayak. Chronicles the author's midlife spiritual journey, during which she spent sixty-five days kayaking around Lake Superior--the first woman to perform such a feat--while facing dangerous elements and reassessing her life.
Author : Don Starkell
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780771082658
After his astounding 12,000-mile canoe trip from Winnipeg down to the Amazon (recounted in his bestseller Paddle to the Amazon on page 48), Don Starkell decided to paddle a kayak from Hudson Bay 3,000 miles through the Northwest Passage. This is Don's diary of this journey from Churchill, Manitoba, to Tuktoyaktuk, close to Alaska, a voyage by kayak (paddled on water or dragged on a sled over the ice) that took him three Arctic summers and almost cost him his life. Through this compelling book we find ourselves sharing his blazing, driving determination to reach his goal, as he closes in on his destination, with his supplies running out and his ocean highway freezing over, making death a near certainty. Armchair travel at its best.
Author : Audrey Sutherland
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938340123
In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling North is a compilation of Sutherland’s first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway. With illustrations and the author’s recipes.
Author : Susan Conrad
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603811052
In the spring of 2010, with her world scaled down to an 18-foot sea kayak and the 1,200-mile ribbon of water called the Inside Passage, Susan Conrad launched a journey that took her north to Alaska. On the way, she forged friendships, lived her dream, and discovered the depths of her own strength and courage.
Author : Joe Glickman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762783069
Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and unsupported around Australia—a year-long adventure that virtually every expert guaranteed would get her killed. She planned not only to survive the 9,420-mile trip through huge, shark-infested seas, but to do it faster than the only other paddler who did it. As journalist and expert kayaker Joe Glickman details the voyage of this Teutonic force of nature, he captures interminable days on the water and nights camped out on deserted islands; hair-raising encounters with crocs and great white sharks; and the daring 300-mile open-ocean crossing that shaved three weeks off her trip. For 332 days Glickman followed Freya’s journey on her blog—along with a far-flung audience of awestruck, even lovesick, groupies—as she took on one terrifying ordeal after the next. In the end, he says, “her vanity and pigheadedness paled next to her nearly superhuman ability to master fear and persevere.”
Author : Shelley Johnson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0070329559
The only complete women's guide to sea kayaking. Shelley Johnson, a professional guide and kayak instructor, takes you through the process of becoming a kayaker, from deciding where you will paddle, to dealing with common fears and stumbling blocks.... .getting quality instruction. . .choosing your boat. . .learning paddling techniques. . .and planning your trips.
Author : David Michael Zink
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304693495
This year the Sadie Hawkins dance was held on the same night as Holloween. Janet and a few of the troubled students decided to play a practical joke on a few of the other classmates by staging the ghostly appearance of The Green Lady. The Ledgend becomes unraveled in a time lapse as Bruno holds the key inside an old pillowcase. Bonus Book: D.B. Cooper
Author : Don McKenzie,Bo Berglund
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781119097228
A new volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science series from the International Olympic Committee, this volume Canoeing provides an accessible and comprehensive summary of the topic. Provides a concise, authoritative overview of the science, medicine and psycho-social aspects of canoeing Offers guidance on medical aspects unique to the training and coaching of canoe athletes The only book on this subject endorsed by the Medical Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Written and edited by global thought leaders in sports medicine
Author : Priscilla Cummings
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101200506
Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when the DiAngelos’ kayak overturns in the bay, and Brady wonders if it was more than an accident. Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind the kayak’s sinking, and it will change the lives of those he loves forever. Priscilla Cummings deftly weaves a suspenseful tale of three teenagers caught in a wicked web of deception.