Author: Andrew Von Sonn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692545966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Kevin Callan
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459707494
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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A collection of adventures (and misadventures) spent travelling in the wilderness. Kevin Callan presents his best adventures – and misadventures – in the wilderness. Entertaining, yet enlightening, the stories are full of enthusiasm and are designed to get people to explore the wilderness on their own, and it’s hoped, be inspired to protect what’s still left. These captured moments of a life spent traveling in secluded areas and promoting their importance to all of us aren’t just for outdoorsy types. The stories relate to a much broader audience: readers who have pondered sleeping under the stars or paddling a canoe across a calm lake or down wild rapids, or even venturing into the winter woods. After reading this book, they’ll want to pack up and go the very next day.

Author: Darrel Bristow-Bovey
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1770227474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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If you don’t choose your midlife crisis, your crisis will choose you. Darrel Bristow-Bovey has tried his best to deny to himself that he’s getting older, but you can’t hide from the truth in the changing-room mirror. One day, surrounded by sharks on a small boat in the Indian Ocean, he suddenly realises his midlife crisis is already under way. Running a gauntlet of bucket lists, prostate examinations and sexual misadventures, Darrel sets himself a task: to follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron and the Greek hero Hercules and swim across the Dardanelles in Turkey. The only problem is that he’s old and tried and lazy and can’t swim very well. One Midlife Crisis and a Speedo is a warm, witty, eventually wise journey into the terrors and absurdities and grumpy compensations of middle age that will speak to every man and woman who has ever noticed that time is ticking by faster every day.

Author: Daniel Delis Hill
Publisher: Daniel Delis Hill
ISBN: 0986425486
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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The History of Men’s Underwear and Swimwear features a detailed, thoroughly illustrated chronology of the development and changing styles of these two “bare necessities” of masculine dress. Interwoven throughout the study is also an examination of how these most intimate forms of men’s clothing not only reflected society but also how the evolution of styles inexorably influenced social change, especially notions of masculinity, modesty, and erotic exhibitionism. In addition, Daniel Delis Hill looks at more than 100 years of the mass marketing of men’s underwear and swimwear, especially the progression of visual presentation and the written message in the era of mass production and mass communication. Cover to cover, the second edition of History of Men’s Underwear and Swimwear is richly illustrated in color throughout with over 200 period photos and artwork, many never published before.

Author: Bernie L. Calaway
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300995157
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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101 Fun Fables is a saucy collection of animal fables with more than a touch of whimsy. Every story, even so, is juicy with its own spiritual spark found in its ending moral and practical life application. The humor is deep but gentle; the life lessons are simple but pointed. Enjoy it as a fun read or make the stories work for you by spicing up your writing, speech, and thinking.

Author: Kevin Callan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770850323
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A camping guide features basic wilderness instructions on such topics as reading a map, selecting a campsite, staking a tent, cooking meals, and administering first aid.

Author: Christopher J. Driver
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 1635050340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Overeducated and underemployed? In love with learning but stumped on how to translate it into a paycheck? Desperately striving to make your seemingly useless liberal arts education work for you in any sort of satisfying or meaningful way? Trying to simultaneously engage your interests, skillset and values and still pay the bills while pleading for another student loan deferment? I feel your pain and have stories to share, but if you're looking for inspirational uplift, self-help or a life coach, please look elsewhere. HARDBARNED! One Man's Quest for Meaningful Work in the American South is a darkly comic, brutally honest and introspective memoir about working for a living--without being able to shake the feeling that there has got to be more to it than that.

Author: Nigel Clements
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291916156
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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Traumatised in 1973, Samuel 'Spud Carrot' Collins unwittingly finds himself wrenched from the sanctity of his innocent existence and propelled head first into the 'Real World.' A world replete with budding 'Evil Empires' and disgruntled Botanists. 'Top Secret' Submarines and Lecherous German Newsagents. Classic songs from the early seventies and of course... 'Vol-eu-Vents.' Assisted, hampered and assailed by the most motley collection of supporting characters ever assembled, Spud must traverse the back streets and recreation grounds of 'Bletchley' as he attempts to discover the reason for his Fathers untimely and mysterious demise. For each secret revealed a dozen more questions are posed in this the gripping first instalment of 'The Adventures of Spud Carrot.

Author: Judy Yung
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295802057
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle. Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12,500 POW and 70,000 Asian lives. Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life.

Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1484757378
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Your quest begins! Use your demigod skills in this interactive and customizable adventure story written by New York Times #1 bestselling author Rick Riordan. Combining four short stories, The Two-Headed Guidance Counselor, The Library of Deadly Weapons, My Demon Satyr Tea Party, and My Personal Zombie Apocalypse, your choices will have consequences in this first interactive demigod adventure.