Sport & Recreation (201)

One Year On a Bike

ISBN: 9783899559064

Author: Martijn Doolaard    Publisher: Gestalten

Martijn Doolaard traded the convenience of a car and the distractions of daily life for a cross-continental cycling journey: a biped adventure that would take h...


Martijn Doolaard traded the convenience of a car and the distractions of daily life for a cross-continental cycling journey: a biped adventure that would take him from Amsterdam to Singapore. Leaving behind repetitive routines, One Year on a Bike indulges in slow travel, the subtlety of a gradually changing landscape, and the lessons learned through traveling. Venturing through Eastern European fields of yellow rapeseed to the intimate hosting culture and community in Iran, One Year on a Bike is a vivid chronicle of what can happen when the norm is pointedly replaced by exceptional self-discoveries and beautiful sceneries. Doolaard shares the gear and knowledge that made his trip possible alongside the passionate curiosities that served as his impetus. 


Bind: hardback


Pages: 368


Dimensions: 240 x 320 mm


Publication Date: 01-01-2017


$120.00
Wanderlust: Hiking on Legendary Trails

ISBN: 9783899559019

Author: Gestalten    Publisher: Gestalten

Explore the world one step at a time embark on trails that invite, inspire, and invigorate. Wanderlust presents the best walking routes with inviting maps, prac...


Explore the world one step at a time embark on trails that invite, inspire, and invigorate. Wanderlust presents the best walking routes with inviting maps, practical tips, and inspiring landscape photographs. Following faded footsteps of migrating animals or paths of ancient trade routes, the trails featured in Wanderlust offer both outdoor exploration and enjoyment. Through hiking, connections are made between cities and coasts, people and places. Spectacular photography illustrates journeys to sharp summits, astonishing vistas, and phenomenal locales. Wanderlust provides maps and rich details for long-distance trails and shorter explorations from the El Camino Real in North America to the Routeburn track in New Zealand and the byroads in between. From modern-day transcendentalists who trade facts and figures for flora and fauna to those who simply desire a casual break from concrete scenery, Wanderlust allows you to live vicariously through vivid portraits or use the trips as impetus for your own hiking journey.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 256


Dimensions: 240 x 300 mm


Publication Date: 01-04-2017


$120.00
Perfect Bowls

ISBN: 9781877252303

Authors: Hugh De Lacy, Peter Belliss    Publisher: Catching Pen Associates

Peter Bellis carved his name into lawn bowls legend with his famous "perfect bowl", the last chance come-from-behind toucher that won him the world singles titl...


Peter Bellis carved his name into lawn bowls legend with his famous "perfect bowl", the last chance come-from-behind toucher that won him the world singles title over local Scottich hero Willie Wood in Aberdeen. In Perfect Bowls Belliss expounds on the training, strategy and tactics that produced not only that incredible winning shot, but took him to further world titles in the pairs and triples. As resident professional at the Cabramatta club in Sydney, Australia, Belliss continues to reign as a giant in the world game. Still relatively young for a bowler, his best is perhaps yet to come. Revealing all the keys to Belliss's extraordinary success at the highest levels of the game, Perfect Bowls is a must for every bowler, regardless of age or ability.


Bind: paperback


Pages: 195


Dimensions: 180 x 245 mm


$29.95
Adventureman

ISBN: 9781849539692

Author: Jamie McDonald    Publisher: Summersdale Publishers

At the age of nine, Jamie was told by doctors that he would never walk again. Twenty years later, he set off to run 5,000 miles coast to coast across Canada. Wh...


At the age of nine, Jamie was told by doctors that he would never walk again. Twenty years later, he set off to run 5,000 miles coast to coast across Canada. When Jamie decides to repay the hospitals that saved his life as a child, he embarks on the biggest challenge of his life: running the equivalent of 200 marathons back-to-back, solo and unsupported, in –40 degree weather, surviving all kinds of injuries and traumas on the road and wearing through 13 pairs of trainers. And he does it all dressed as the superhero, the Flash. Though his journey was both mentally and physically exhausting, it was the astounding acts of kindness and hospitality he encountered along the way that kept him going. Whether they gave him a bed for the night, food for the journey, a donation to his charity or companionship and encouragement during the long days of running, Jamie soon came to realise that every person who helped him towards his goal was a superhero too.


Bind: paperback


Pages: 320


Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm


Publication Date: 06-02-2017


$29.99
How to Watch a Bullfight

ISBN: 9781906122270

Author: Tristan Wood    Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books

This is the golden age of bullfighting. In the last 60 years, the number of bullfights (corridas) held in Spain has increased almost ninefold, peaking in 2007. ...


This is the golden age of bullfighting. In the last 60 years, the number of bullfights (corridas) held in Spain has increased almost ninefold, peaking in 2007. Great bullfighting names have the status of football stars, with heroes including Cayetano, José Tomás, Enrique Ponce and Morante de la Puebla, their styles ranging from the flamboyant and breath-takingly reckless to calm domination and technical mastery. Many English-speaking tourists on holiday witness this most ancient and colourful of spectacles, but few understand what is really going on. This illustrated guide acknowledges that attending a bullfight is controversial and will not appeal to everyone. It throws light on the bullfighter’s art and outlines the structure of the corrida, the key players and the various moves and stages. A fascinating and complex event is defined step-by-step in layman's terms. The music, the excitement and reactions of the crowd and the drama are all put into context and one of the most ancient and unusual of modern spectacles becomes clear. This book is designed to give readers of whatever persuasion an understanding of bullfighting, so that they can either increase their pleasure in watching a corrida in Spain, France or South America, or simply learn what is involved in this most complex, moving and controversial of spectacles.


Pages: 224


Dimensions: 189 x 246 mm


Publication Date: 01-03-2011


$59.99
Born To Thunder : Champions of New Zealand cycling

ISBN: 9780473109295

Author: D. J. (Desmond Joseph) Williams    Publisher: Last Side Publishing

Born To Thunder profiles New Zealand's Olympic medallists Gary Anderson and Sarah Ulmer, earlier heroes like Nick Carter and Warwick Dalton, and many other gian...


Born To Thunder profiles New Zealand's Olympic medallists Gary Anderson and Sarah Ulmer, earlier heroes like Nick Carter and Warwick Dalton, and many other giants of the road and track over the past 60 years.


Pages: 288


Dimensions: 220 mm


Publication Date: 01-05-2010


$29.99
Football Wit: Quips and Quotes for the Football Fanatic

ISBN: 9781840246711

Author: Aubrey Malone    Publisher: Summersdale Publishers

$29.99
Robbie: Rugby Warrior, The Autobiography

ISBN: 9781905080106

Author: Robbie Hunter-Paul    Publisher: Great Northern Books

Robbie Paul was Super League's first superstar, a player who transformed the sport with his brilliance on the pitch and larger than life persona off it. He was ...


Robbie Paul was Super League's first superstar, a player who transformed the sport with his brilliance on the pitch and larger than life persona off it. He was the inspirational heart of a Bradford team who dominated rugby league's new summer era, with Paul the face and driving force of the Bulls for more than a decade.
He arrived from New Zealand as a skinny 18-year-old and developed into a world class talent who took Wembley by storm when he became the first player to score a hat-trick of tries there in a Challenge Cup final. It was the launch pad for a career that included a cross-code move to Harlequins as rugby union went professional, more than 30 league appearances for his beloved Kiwis and captaining Bradford to Super League and World Club title honours.
Artist, musician, media commentator, Paul was no ordinary rugby player. Born of a proud warrior race, his inspirational journey through the trials, tribulations and triumphs of a trophy-laden career is the very essence of the joy of rugby.
Paul's compelling story in his long-awaited autobiography is embellished by his own unique High Performance guide on what it takes to be a better player, mentally, physically and professionally, based on his 18-year playing career and rugby marketing and strategic role today.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 254


Dimensions: 160 x 240 x 24 mm


Publication Date: 01-09-2012


$49.99
Wild Duck and Their Pursuit

ISBN: 9781906122249

Author: Douglas Butler    Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books

This lively and informative book looks at the natural history, the populations, the movements and the behaviour of wild duck, in order to help the sportsman to ...


This lively and informative book looks at the natural history, the populations, the movements and the behaviour of wild duck, in order to help the sportsman to better understand his quarry. In no-nonsense prose, Douglas Butler shares the knowledge and experience of a lifetime of interest in ducks and in hunting them. This is the only book to focus exclusively on duck shooting and it will appeal to ornithologists, conservationists and those who shoot duck.


Dimensions: 156 x 234 mm


Publication Date: 01-09-2010


$59.99
The Poacher's Handbook

ISBN: 9781873674581

Author: Ian Niall    Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books

Ian Niall wrote this masterpiece of country lore to regain the thrill of crossing hills in the moonlight and of creeping up the woodside at dusk. From The Poac...


Ian Niall wrote this masterpiece of country lore to regain the thrill of crossing hills in the moonlight and of creeping up the woodside at dusk. From The Poacher's Handbook you can learn how to retrieve a ferret from a deep burrow and how to train a dog, as well as the cunning ways of gamekeepers and the meaning in the changing flight of a lone pigeon.


Pages: 141


Dimensions: 144 x 223 mm


Publication Date: 01-06-2009


$49.99
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