The Oarsome Adventures Of A Fat Boy Rower

Author : Kevin Biggar
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781869794293

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The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower by Kevin Biggar Pdf

True, brilliantly written story of how one young man solved his crisis by rowing the Atlantic. This is a story about trying to find happiness. There is a strange trick to being happy. You have to think certain things, believe certain things and hold your tongue the right way. This is the story of how Kevin Biggar lost the trick and found it again. There's quite a bit about rowing as well. If you are in a hurry here are the contents of this book in 150 words or less: "I stop being immortal. I have a traumatic pizza ordering experience and realize I am very unhappy. I quit my job, girlfriend, house and go live with my mother. I watch a lot of daytime TV. The 'How's Life' show decides that I row the Atlantic. I team up with the original Naked Rower, we struggle to raise money, start building the boat, start training insanely. I lose the plot. Find a rowing partner, lose a rowing partner, get another rowing partner - Jamie. "Meet Hot Polish Girl with cold hands. Start the race (badly). Row into storm. Take the lead. Row. Lose the lead. Row. Attempt a Big Push. Nothing happens. More rowing. Hallucinations. Slowly catch up! Another storm. Neck and neck as we sprint to the finish. Capsize and get thrown out of the boat. Get to Barbados! Yay! Get protested against. Boo! Media circus. Win at the protest hearing. Still living with Mum."

Author : Kevin Biggar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 036931736X

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The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower by Kevin Biggar Pdf

True, brilliantly written story of how one young man solved his crisis by rowing the Atlantic. This is a story about trying to find happiness. There is a strange trick to being happy. You have to think certain things, believe certain things and hold your tongue the right way. This is the story of how Kevin Biggar lost the trick and found it again. There's quite a bit about rowing as well. If you are in a hurry here are the contents of this book in 150 words or less: ''I stop being immortal. I have a traumatic pizza ordering experience and realize I am very unhappy. I quit my job, girlfriend, house and go live with my mother. I watch a lot of daytime TV. The 'How's Life' show decides that I row the Atlantic. I team up with the original Naked Rower, we struggle to raise money, start building the boat, start training insanely. I lose the plot. Find a rowing partner, lose a rowing partner, get another rowing partner - Jamie. ''Meet Hot Polish Girl with cold hands. Start the race (badly). Row into storm. Take the lead. Row. Lose the lead. Row. Attempt a Big Push. Nothing happens. More rowing. Hallucinations. Slowly catch up! Another storm. Neck and neck as we sprint to the finish. Capsize and get thrown out of the boat. Get to Barbados! Yay! Get protested against. Boo! Media circus. Win at the protest hearing. Still living with Mum.''

Author : Kevin Biggar
Publisher : Random House (New Zealand)
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Atlantic Rowing Race
ISBN : 1869790219

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The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower by Kevin Biggar Pdf

True, brilliantly written story of how one young man solved his crisis by rowing the Atlantic. This is a story about trying to find happiness. There is a strange trick to being happy. You have to think certain things, believe certain things and hold your tongue the right way. This is the story of how Kevin Biggar lost the trick and found it again. There's quite a bit about rowing as well. If you are in a hurry here are the contents of this book in 150 words or less: "I stop being immortal. I have a traumatic pizza ordering experience and realize I am very unhappy. I quit my job, girlfriend, house and go live with my mother. I watch a lot of daytime TV. The 'How's Life' show decides that I row the Atlantic. I team up with the original Naked Rower, we struggle to raise money, start building the boat, start training insanely. I lose the plot. Find a rowing partner, lose a rowing partner, get another rowing partner - Jamie. "Meet Hot Polish Girl with cold hands. Start the race (badly). Row into storm. Take the lead. Row. Lose the lead. Row. Attempt a Big Push. Nothing happens. More rowing. Hallucinations. Slowly catch up! Another storm. Neck and neck as we sprint to the finish. Capsize and get thrown out of the boat. Get to Barbados! Yay! Get protested against. Boo! Media circus. Win at the protest hearing. Still living with Mum."

Author : Kevin Biggar
Publisher : RHNZ eBooks
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1869794001

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Escape to the Pole by Kevin Biggar Pdf

The hilarious sequel to 'The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower'. One hundred years ago Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen were racing to claim the last great geographic prize, the South Pole. It was an epic battle, a life or death struggle. Now, a century later, Kevin and Jamie know how they feel. The Hot Polish Girl (HPG) is starting to get clucky. Kate is back in the picture. Their carefree bachelor days are numbered. There is only one solution. They set themselves the challenge of trekking, unsupported 2400kms from the Antarctic coast to South Pole and back across the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, most 'est' place on Earth. Along the way they experience abyss-like crevasses, tooth-cracking cold, fickle GPSs and skin-melting frostbite. They are ravaged by auto-cannibalism, attacked by white ninjas and meet girls in bikinis. Through their adventures they unravel the mysteries around Captain Scott's last expedition. Written in the same whimsical, entertaining style as 'The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower', 'Race to the Pole' puts a modern human face on a classic adventure story. www.escapetothepole.com

Author : Kevin Biggar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1869793994

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Escape to the Pole by Kevin Biggar Pdf

Two Kiwi guys sled to the South Pole, dodging crevasses, starvation and marriage. The hilarious sequel to 'The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower'. One hundred years ago Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen were racing to claim the last great geographic prize, the South Pole. It was an epic battle, a life or death struggle. Now, a century later, Kevin and Jamie know how they feel. The Hot Polish Girl (HPG) is starting to get clucky. Kate is back in the picture. Their carefree bachelor days are numbered. There is only one solution. They set themselves the challenge of trekking, unsupported 2400kms from the Antarctic coast to South Pole and back across the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, most 'est' place on Earth. Along the way they experience abyss-like crevasses, tooth-cracking cold, fickle GPSs and skin-melting frostbite. They are ravaged by auto-cannibalism, attacked by white ninjas and meet girls in bikinis. Through their adventures they unravel the mysteries around Captain Scott's last expedition. Written in the same whimsical, entertaining style as The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower, Escape to the Pole puts a modern human face on a classic adventure story. www.escapetothepole.com

Author : Luke Richmond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925384383

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One Life One Chance by Luke Richmond Pdf

Born to nomadic parents and humble beginnings, Luke Richmond grew up running wild and free in the Australian outback. After finishing school, he joined the Australian Army and served his country overseas as a qualified infantry soldier – an experience that sparked in him an unrelenting desire for adventure. But when he leaves the army Luke finds himself broke and adrift in London, caught up in the soulless world of drug and alcohol addiction. When he wakes up in a police cell with no memory of how he got there, he knows he has hit rock bottom, and makes the snap decision to turn his life around. Within days he is in Thailand, training his mind and body at a Muay Thai boxing camp in the jungles of Phuket. In suffering Luke finds his salvation, and he decides to make the most out of life by seeking adventure in remote corners of the world. Since then Luke has climbed the highest mountains on six continents, set a new world record for ocean rowing across the Atlantic, battled -60 degree temperatures in the Antarctic, witnessed death at high altitude, was held captive in the humid jungles of West Papua and has thrown himself from cliffs in the adrenalin-fueled world of BASE jumping. More than an awe-inspiring story of endurance and adventure, One Life One Chance will ultimately remind you that we only have one shot, so don’t waste a second of it.

Author : Martin Stewart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101998304

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Riverkeep by Martin Stewart Pdf

A stunning debut perfect for fans of Patrick Ness and Neil Gaiman! The Danék is a wild, treacherous river, and the Fobisher family has tended it for generations—clearing it of ice and weed, making sure boats can get through, and fishing corpses from its bleak depths. Wulliam’s father, the current Riverkeep, is proud of this work. Wull dreads it. And in one week, when he comes of age, he will have to take over. Then the unthinkable happens. While recovering a drowned man, Wull’s father is pulled under—and when he emerges, he is no longer himself. A dark spirit possesses him, devouring him from the inside. In an instant, Wull is Riverkeep. And he must care for his father, too. When he hears that a cure for his father lurks in the belly of a great sea-dwelling beast known as the mormorach, he embarks on an epic journey down the river that his family has so long protected—but never explored. Along the way, he faces death in any number of ways, meets people and creatures touched by magic and madness and alchemy, and finds courage he never knew he possessed. Martin Stewart's debut novel is an astonishing blend of the literary, the comedic, and the emotionally resonant. In a sentence, it's The Wizard of Oz as told by Patrick Ness. It marks the beginning of a remarkable career.

Author : Daniel Lyons
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786731756

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Options by Daniel Lyons Pdf

Welcome to the mind—to the world—of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: “Obviously we can’t literally put our employees’ lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.” Fake Steve the celebrity hobnobber: “I like Bono. He’s the only person I know who’s more self-absorbed than I am.” Options is the book that had the critics howling—with laughter: “A voice for our own digital age....Mac-slappingly funny.”—Newsweek.com “Hilarious.”—New York Times “There’s a laugh-out-loud moment on nearly each one of the book’s pages.”—Wall Street Journal “Wickedly funny.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Sean Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ex-football players
ISBN : 1921462310

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The Fat Paddler by Sean Smith Pdf

Horrific car accidents, the Bali bombing, too many sausages ... Sean Smith survived them all. This is one man's story of his journey back to health and fitness and recapturing his passion for life....

Author : Gareth Hanrahan
Publisher : Mongoose Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN : 1904577903

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Classic Play: Book of the Planes by Gareth Hanrahan Pdf

The Classic Play series takes the most popular aspects of roleplaying and puts them all together in one complete volume. Previous titles have included The Book of Strongholds & Dynasties, The Book of Dragons, The Book of Adventuring, and The Book of Encounters and Lairs. This volume fully details the planes, alternate existences that the brave and foolhardy enter in equal measure. A complete one-stop resource for any games master intending to run games in these worlds, players will also find it immensely valuable if they want their character to survive.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSD:31822010790632

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Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Author : Ralph Nevill
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547623960

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Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill Pdf

"Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College" by Ralph Nevill. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Kopel Burk,Rachelle Burk
Publisher : Tumblehome Learning
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781943431069

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Walking Fish by Kopel Burk,Rachelle Burk Pdf

A humorous, exciting tale of an ordinary girl who makes an extraordinary scientific discovery—a blind fish that walksWhen seventh-grader Alexis catches an unusual fish that looks like a living fossil, she sets off a frenzied scientific hunt for more of its kind. Alexis and her friend Darshan join the hunt, snorkeling, sounding the depths of Glacial Lake, even observing from a helicopter and exploring a cave. All the while, they fight to keep the selfish Dr. Mertz from claiming the discovery all for himself. When Alexis follows one final hunch, she risks her life and almost loses her friend. Walking Fish is a scientific adventure that provides a perfect combination of literacy and science.

Author : Mike Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1916494439

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Miracles on the Camino by Mike Gardner Pdf

The Camino de Santiago has been a holy pilgrimage across northern Spain for more than a thousand years. When retired journalist Mike Gardner began walking from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port, in April, 2018, he didn't know if he would make it. The Camino is an extraordinary physical challenge of 800 kilometres, taking pilgrims around five weeks to complete - though the majority fail along the way. Mike believes he was accompanied on his pilgrimage by powerful, supernatural forces. He made friends from all over the world and, he says, they were touched by the hand of God. He met cocaine addicts, alcoholics, reformed alcoholics, pilgrims with millions of pounds, one walker who was so poor his budget was five euros a day, airline pilots, plumbers and one amazing lady from New Zealand, who overcame a lifetime of mental anguish, in one divine moment. Mike says he witnessed four miracles, and enjoyed dozens of experiences that were either the result of mystic forces or coincidences that stretch the laws of statistics way, way beyond breaking point. He acquired two sons, three daughters, three sisters and brothers too numerous to put a figure on. His pilgrimage is the essence of everything that is so wonderful about this unique place - there is nowhere like it on Earth. He originally posted his story every day on the internet, as a blog, where he would record his journey on a mobile phone, late at night, and without notes, exhausted but invigorated and keen to put on record his incredible experiences, while everything was fresh in his mind. It was shared all over the world and by the time he reached Santiago, it was being read by thousands of people. This is his story, updated and improved, with more than 70 photographs - it is entirely truthful, uplifting, poignant and ultimately triumphant.

Author : Hermann Gundert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Malayalam language
ISBN : UCAL:B5354370

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A Malayalam and English Dictionary: The vowels by Hermann Gundert Pdf