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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations
Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience for years, applying all he has learned to become the first person in history to swim around Great Britain, breaking multiple world records. Now Ross focuses on mental strength, stoicism and the training needed to create an unbreakable body.
Ross Edgley famously ran a marathon pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbed a rope the height of Everest (8,848m), after living with Yamabushi warrior monks in Japan and partaking in Shamanic pain rituals with fire ants in the Amazon jungle. On his epic 1,780-mile journey around Great Britain, which lasted 157 days, Ross swam through giant jellyfish, arctic storms, ‘haunted’ whirlpools and polluted shipping lanes, going so hard, and so fast, his tongue fell apart.
Ross’s previous book, The World’s Fittest Book, was a Sunday Times bestseller and explored the science of physical fitness. Now, in The Art of Resilience, Ross uses his swim experience and other amazing endurance feats, where he managed to overcome seemingly insurmountable pain, hardship and adversity, to study the performance of extreme athletes, military and fitness specialists and psychologists to uncover the secrets of mental fitness and explore the concept of resilience, persistence, valour and a disciplined mindset in overcoming adversity. This ground-breaking book represents a paradigm shift in what we thought the human body and mind were capable of and will give you a blueprint to become a tougher, more resilient and ultimately better human – whatever the challenge you face.
This sailor's logbook has received a makeover. Redesigned to appeal
to the 21st century sailor, it is fun to use, designed to last a
full season and the perfect gift for anyone passionate about
sailing. The new design allows space for electronic navigation
information and for narrative and it doubles as a visitors' book.
Following the pioneering work of the legendary Adlard Coles, the
book was passed to Captain John Coote RN in 1982. In his
comparatively short, ten-year tenure, John Coote expanded the
coverage from the English coast to include northern France. He also
applied a characteristic humour to the shoreside aspect of the text
which has been enthusiastically adopted by Tom Cunliffe, the
present and third compiler of this unique work. This is a revised
8th edition published by Imray under Cunliffe's hand. 'Shell' is
more than a harbour guide. It also provides a reassuring hand on
the shoulder for Channel navigation, with useful passage notes
gleaned from the compiler's personal experience of more than 40
years running the tides and finding the eddies. His frank remarks
regarding harbour and recreational facilities have long been relied
upon by sailors of all generations and nationalities. While leading
to some enlightening secrets, they have been known to cause
landlords whose establishments fall short of the required standard
to lose the will to live. Working with harbourmasters and a
dedicated group of carefully selected yachtsmen and women, Cunliffe
has kept this pilot as up to date as is humanly possible. More than
being technically sound, which is to be expected from a Yachtmaster
Examiner, the book is also a thoroughly enjoyable read. Imray
Digital Charts: Free mobile download A voucher code to download the
relevant Imray digital charts into Imray Navigator (our app for iOS
and Android) is included with the paper edition of this book.
Plans included: Kekova Roads (1:40 000) Kekova Adasi (1:15 000)
Finike (1:17 500) Antalya Celebi Marina (1:15 000) Kemer Turkiz
Marina (1:17 500) For this 2014 edition the chart has been fully
updated and modernised. The latest known depths are shown around
Kap, Kekova Roads and Antalya Harbour. Harbour depths at Ucaoiz are
also displayed, as are the recently deployed AIS transmitters
across the chart.
A handy, splash-proof, on-the-water summary of the key things you
need to know about navigation at sea: the perfect quick reference
guide to keep onboard. The book covers all the navigation
essentials: charts, compass, tides, standard and secondary ports,
dead reckoning, estimated position, course to steer, lights, GPS,
waypoints and buoyage in a highly illustrated format making it easy
to understand at a glance - ideal for those moments when you need
an answer, and you need it fast! Spiral bound, this little
companion stands up to frequent use and serves as a great
aide-memoire.
'What Jimmy Cornell doesn't know about cruising isn't worth
knowing' - Yachting World One of the most influential cruising
yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000
miles on all the oceans of the world, including three
circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. His
successful guide to sailing around the world, World Cruising
Routes, has helped many aspirational voyagers turn their dreams
into reality and follow in his footsteps. Here in its extensively
revised third edition is its partner, covering all the land-based
essentials for cruisers, including new updates throughout on the
long-lasting impact of climate change, Brexit and Covid. This
substantial handbook profiles every cruising destination in the
world, with information on cruising attractions, history, culture,
climate (including average monthly temperatures and rainfall, plus
tropical storm seasons), local laws, regulations and formalities,
facilities, plus public holidays and events, emergency telephone
numbers, and much more. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it is not
only a must-have onboard reference work for long distance sailors,
but will undoubtedly inspire the adventurous to sail where they
have never sailed before.
Based on the exceptional and fascinating eyewitness account of a
17th century Spanish padre, Dave Horner's Shipwreck is the
absorbing and true story of two immense galleons that were lost
(along with hundreds of passengers and millions of pesos in
treasure) to disasters at sea. Shipwreck is an extraordinary
literary adventure which interweaves accounts of the many attempts
throughout the past three centuries to recover the sunken treasure,
including the recent discovery and salvage of one of the galleons
by Dave Horner himself. Shipwreck is an outstanding history of true
adventure on the high seas, past and present, which is wonderfully
enhanced for the reader with 50 photographic illustrations, six
maps, four line drawings, seven appendices, as well as
bibliographies of archival sources, institutions, original
documents or primary works, and a general listing of thematically
appropriate titles for further suggested readings.
First published in the 1950s under the editorship of EE Benest and
later Konrad Nussbaum, the Imray map of the French inland waterway
system has always been regarded as the essential reference for
planning a visit to France by boat. It is now superseded by this
completely recompiled and redrawn edition by David Edwards-May, the
leading authority on World canals and waterways. The new
cartography includes improved detail and presents essential
information concerning distances and dimensions with a greater
clarity than on previous editions. The map continues to cover the
Low Countries and the western part of Germany and now also includes
large scale insets of the Paris region and northeast France. The
scale remains at 1:1 500 000
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