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Left for Dead
Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the six-hundred-mile course of the UK's Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within forty-eight hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea, throwing one of the world's most prestigious races into bedlam and taking...
It's All About the Bike
The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his
late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides
to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to
travel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with his
kids. He's no Sunday...
Soccermatics
Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
'Football looked at in a very different way' Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst
Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers,...
This Love Is Not for Cowards
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border...
by John Foot
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise a cyclist, by name, from his balcony in St Peters in Rome. It was a sport so popular that it created...
Swinging from My Heels
Confessions of an LPGA Star
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Christina Kim is the brashest, bawdiest, funniest player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. Golf fans know her for her colorful wardrobe, even more colorful on-course antics, and an explosive game. But in this rollicking account of the 2009 season, Kim invites readers deep into her...
The Nasty Bits
Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
New York Times Bestseller
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.
Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This "anti-Mayle" will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West struggles to solve the mysteries inherent in life in France....
by Todd Pruzan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house-but that didn't stop her from writing several successful travel books. With volumes on Europe, Asia, and Africa and America, Mrs. Mortimer had something nasty to say about...
Equilateral
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Equilateral is an intellectual comedy set just before the turn of the century in Egypt. A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of the age, has come to believe that beings more highly evolved than us are alive on Mars (he has evidence) and that there will be a...
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Festival Book Competition
The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century – a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of...
The Emperor Far Away
Travels at the Edge of China
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In 1949, Mao Zedong announced the birth of the People's Republic of China, a proclamation to the world that, after centuries of war and social conflict, China had emerged as one nation. Since then, this idea has been propagated by broadcasts of marches and mass demonstrations of unity, designed for...
Cool Gray City of Love
49 Views of San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty...
Hot Countries
A Travel Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
First published in 1930, this discursive and absorbing travel-book offers, as the author says in his new Foreword, "a picture of a way of living that exists no longer."
Hot Countries tells of a series of journeys in the Far East, the West Indies and the South Sea Islands when he was a young and light-hearted novelist seeking colour, romance and adventure.