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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation
This guidebook to walking Coast to Coast across Devon, presents a
117 mile route incorporating the Two Moors Way and a section of the
Erme-Plym Trail. Beginning at Wembury Bay on the south coast and
finishing at Lynmouth, the 11-stage walk passes through the
beautiful Devon countryside and across two of southwest England's
magnificent moorlands, Dartmoor and Exmoor. The schedule can be
adjusted to give a one-week walk, or a more leisurely pace if
preferred, and the book includes low-level bad-weather alternative
routes for some moorland stretches. A full route description is
given for walking the route from south to north, with a summary
description for walking in the opposite direction. 1:50,000 map
extracts show the route and there is lots of practical information
on public transport, refreshments and accommodation to make
day-by-day planning simple. A map booklet showing the full route on
OS 1:25K maps is included with this guide. The county of Devon
incorporates a wonderful range of landscapes, from the rolling
fields and enclosed paths of South Devon to the wild, wide-open
spaces of Dartmoor, with its hill ponies, granite tors and Bronze
Age relics. To the north, Exmoor's sandstone moorland sweeps down
to the sea, and lofty coastal hills tower over the Bristol Channel.
The Israel National Trail [INT] is one of the most exciting hikes
in the world, expanding over 1,100 kilometres from the north to the
south of Israel. You can hike its entire length, or just selected
sections of your choice and you can hike it in winter too. You will
experience a great desert hike in the Negev and Judean deserts and
the Dead sea, the lowest point on earth. It is the ultimate desert
hiking experience, and you can do it easily with the guide that
simply has all you need. This full and comprehensive guide includes
62 topographical maps (1:50,000) and 8 road maps (1:250,000). It is
an ultralight guide, that weighs only 300 grams. The guide offers a
full description of the hike in both northbound and southbound
directions together with the hiking profile - distance and height
above or below sea level. You will find in the guide fascinating
information about geology, history, unique botanical information
and interesting short side trips. The maps along with day-by-day
trail descriptions and tips make this guide your one-stop shop and
all you need to hike the Israel National Trail. The guide is
suitable for experienced hikers as well as families and individuals
looking to explore Israel in a whole new and exciting way. The
guide has links to important information available as free
downloads including the full preface to the guide, contact
information of people in the desert who will cache water for you, a
list of trail angels, list of grocery stores along the INT,
transportation from the airport to the trailhead in Dan or in Eilat
and much more. There is a QR code for trail changes, plus links to
recommended INT alternate routes, and the best day-hikes in Israel.
The new section from Arad to Masada and the Dead sea is included.
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is
recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking,
horse riding and off-road cycling. The OS Explorer range of OL maps
now includes a digital version of the paper map, accessed through
the OS smartphone app, OS Maps. Providing complete GB coverage the
series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs
and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths
and bridleways.
Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green fields
under blue skies and warm sun. But, for the first time, a book
explores the mesmerising beauty of cricket grounds in winter,
carpeted with snow, through remarkable colour photographs depicting
grounds from Lord's to the smallest village pitch in Lancashire,
and internationally from New Zealand to the Indian Himalayas. For
this aspect alone, Snow Stopped Play will be seized upon as the
perfect gift for the cricket fan even by those utterly uninterested
in the sport. But Snow Stopped Play is also a fascinatingly
eccentric and charming disquisition, in the best tradition of
cricket classics like Carr's Dictionary of Extra-Ordinary
Cricketers, on the game of cricket itself, through its hitherto
unexamined relationship with snow. Did John Arlott really find a
snowflake on his sleeve at Lord's in June? Why did a Derbyshire
batsman have to take his false teeth out after a snowfall at Buxton
in 1975? And has the Sussex fast bowler and poet John Snow ever
written a poem about snow?
The book examines a period when football underwent a seismic and
ineradicable change brought about by the determination of the
Victorian Football League to wrest control of the game's
development and destiny from the various state controlling bodies
and the Australian Football Council. Whereas the VFL had initially
been the first among equals, it gradually assumed the role of the
sole and undisputed guardian of the code. The AFC, once football's
ostensible national controlling body, became an irrelevance.
Instead of a national sport with a national remit we ended up with
an expanded VFL with a majority of Victorian member clubs
supplemented by a token sprinkling of teams from interstate. Such
teams were in most cases created from scratch and could in no way
be said to derive directly from the states' unique and distinctive
football traditions and culture. For some, it was a brave new
world, but evolution does not inevitably entail improvement.
The first title in a series born of collaboration between Giorgio
Nada Editore and the Imola Autodrome, which will see a series of
books appear over time, devoted to the Italian track. This
bi-lingual book has as the object the story of Ayrton at Imola, a
circuit at which the Brazilian competed from 1984 to 1994, winning
on three occasions and starting from pole eight times. The volume
closes with a section on the three days there from 1-3 May 2014
that took place to mark the 20th anniversary of Ayrton's death,
commemorated on the Imola track. The next title in the series is to
be devoted to Gilles Villeneuve
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is
recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking,
horse riding and off-road cycling. The OS Explorer range of OL maps
now includes a digital version of the paper map, accessed through
the OS smartphone app, OS Maps. Providing complete GB coverage the
series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs
and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths
and bridleways.
Thomas J. Lipton's America's Cup Campaigns is the saga on one man's
three decade obsession with winning the America's Cup. This is
author Richard V. Simpson's fifth title concerning the quest for
the America's Cup-the Blue Riband prize for the sport of large
ocean racing yachts. In this book, Simpson relates brief stories of
some of the most interesting of the early races for the Cup which
lead up to the Lipton challenges. The narrative covers the
development of the early sloops and schooners from wood, to metal
and the challenges faced by designers. For this narrative Simpson
has searched century-old tabloids for early sport writers'
predictions and observation of the contestants; he has resurrected
many long-forgotten contemporary accounts relative to late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century yachts built especially as
America's Cup racers. This historical account of the Lipton and
Herreshoff face-offs is a sterling read for professional, amateur,
and armchair sailor.
Focusing on the years 1903 to 1930, Dr. Seymour discusses the emergence of the two major leagues and the World Series games, the bitter trade struggles and pennant rivalries, and such legendary figures as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb.
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