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In this revelatory and original book, the award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them.

Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty where you least expect it. What happens when someone who has learned to observe her external world in such detail decides to examine her internal world with the same care?

The award-winning podcast for Masters swimmers, adult athletes, and health and wellness seekers striving for personal excellence. Join your host, world-record-setting Masters swimmer, former NCAA Division I swim coach, best-selling author and health coach Kelly Palace, as she dives into inspiring stories, expert insights, and proven strategies to help you unlock your champion mindset. A podcast that champions you!

How to Swim Faster will show you everything you need to know about swimming faster. Once you have learnt how to swim, the next stage is how to swim faster. Discover valuable secrets you must know to quickly achieve success. Swimming lessons will give you the basics. This book will go further than your swimming lessons and give you the winning advantage. Dive into this challenge and make the most of your effort.

Michael Phelps' unbelievable talents and some of his controversies outside of the pool have fans and critics alike wondering where his career will take him next. Inside, you will discover where it all started and learn why so many fans love Phelps so much. From family to swimming to the future, all you need to know about Michael Phelps is right here, right now, in the most up-to-date coverage of Phelps' life.

Welcome to the official Total Waterpolo Podcast with our host James Spencer-Boyce. Every week we have the biggest names in world water polo on the show to discuss anything and everything water polo.

There’s more to ocean swimming than swimming in the ocean.

A solo sailing adventure story, this adventure takes place on a lake in Manitoba Canada known as the inland sea, lake Winnipeg is a challenging sail let alone being alone. This story covers three days on my first solo multi day sail on a little sailboat named Walkabout.

Secretos de Buceo ofrece una instruida visión balanceada en algunos de los más polémicos temas del buceo con equipo autónomo, como el buceo solo, buceo profundo y recicladores, e incluye un análisis completo sobre cómo ocurren los accidentes de buceo y cómo asegurar de no volverte una estadística. Secretos de Buceo también te da un conocimiento valioso en un amplio rango de temas como sería sentirte en un curso de buceo en cuevas, cómo asegurarte de comprar el equipo correcto, qué considerar al elegir tu instructor, cosas que incluso los pro hacen mal y donde encontrar el mejor buceo del mundo.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Boy in the Water, written and read by Tom Gregory. Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and grease-smeared goggles swims the last few metres from France to England. He has been in the water for 12 agonising hours, encouraged at each stroke by his coach, John Bullet, who has become a second father.

A podcast focusing on real world stories from the world of swim/bike/run with actionable advice to help the everyday athlete achieve their goals in the sport. Visit www.phazontriathlon.com for more triathlon content.

In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads - who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth - recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes.

Coach Duncan began his coaching career in 1968 - in Newport News, Virginia, for the Glendale Gators. He used his education and his experiences to craft a coaching career over 51 years, retiring from coaching in January 2019. He credits swimmers, colleagues, and volunteers for his coaching successes - and his family for allowing him the unusual working hours and days, the weekends and weeks away from home and the level of focus he gave to his work.

Wie ertränkt man Tag für Tag den eigenen Schweinehund? Als bekennende Landratte fühlt sich Wigald Boning im nassen Element alles andere als zuhause. Ändert sich dies durch sein selbst verordnetes Schwimm-Programm: 365 Tage lang jeden Tag aufs Neue hinein in die Fluten – bei Wind und Wetter. Boning legt sich mit fauchenden Schwänen an, findet in schlammigen Gründen unerwartete Schätze und streitet mit Frachtschiffkapitänen. Eines Tages verschlägt es ihn ausgerechnet an den Flughafen von Hannover – kein Badesee weit und breit.

In Capturing Kahanamoku, historian Michael Rossi draws on archival research and firsthand interviews to weave together a truly fascinating narrative—at once an absorbing account of obsession, a cautionary tale about the subjectivity of science and the afterlives of eugenics, a meditation on humanity, and the story of a man whose personhood shunned classification.

At the age of 25, during the summer of 2012, Dan found his ideal home, the fact that it was nearly 100 miles of canal away from his workplace, friends, and family gave him a rough and ready introduction to what it meant to own a boat as his first task was to travel the slow way home... in his home.

Stuck in a corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary - the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure.

Normality is so over-rated. Boat life is better. In her debut memoir Narrow Margins, Marie Browne saved her family from financial ruin by moving her long-suffering husband, three children, and a dog on to a houseboat called Happy Go Lucky in search of a less stressful, alternative way of life. Now in Narrow Minds the family find themselves sucked back into normality, they’re pretty much back where they started: horrible house, no boat, and the kids are beginning to threaten mutiny.

The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives.

Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection. The Sailor's Bookshelf offers synopses of fifty books that illustrate the history, importance, lore, and lifestyle of the oceans and of those who "go down to the sea in ships." Divided into four main categories, Admiral Stavridis's choices will appeal to "old salts" and to those who have never known the sights of the ever-changing seascape, nor breathed the tonic of an ocean breeze.