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This classic guide focuses on the fundamentals of seamanship that are essential knowledge to all ocean paddlers. Sea kayaking has come a long way since this informative manual was published more than twenty years ago. From an offbeat pastime enjoyed by an adventurous few, the sport has become an industry unto itself. Veteran paddler John Dowd's readable, well-illustrated guide still stands as "the bible" for both new and experienced kayakers. Sea...
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"The most comprehensive guide for sea kayakers of all levels. First published in 1976, The Complete Book of Sea Kayaking is a comprehensive guide for the beginner and an invaluable reference book for the experienced sea kayaker. Originally penned by the late Derek C. Hutchinson, an international authority on sea kayaking, it describes equipment, basic and advanced techniques, weather and navigation, and is illustrated throughout by the author's own...
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What makes travel special? Perhaps the chill realization that a polar bear's eyes are fixed on you. Maybe it is the chance meeting with a man who buries sharks in a beach, only to dig them up months later, not out of morbid curiosity, but for food. Perhaps it is the undulating wing-beat of a dark shell-less gastropod in the canal of a 17th Century French sea port, or the criminal history of a rusting ship with a tree growing from its hold.
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6) Kayaking
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"Basic Illustrated Kayaking is a guide to recreational, flatwater kayaking aimed at both beginners and casual paddlers"--
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The Art of Kayaking is the distilled essence of a lifetime of kayak instruction at all skill levels around the world, with the added insights gained from years of designing kayaks, paddles, and kayaking equipment. This comprehensive kayaking manual by one of the biggest names in kayaking offers more essential detail about commonly used techniques than ever before published in a single volume. Color photo action sequences show how to perfect skills,...
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In Fifty Places to Paddle Before You Die, the newest addition to the Fifty Places series, Chris Santella explores the best destinations for the diverse sport of paddling. The book features the world's top spots for kayaking, rafting, canoeing, and stand-up paddleboarding. Destinations include the Grand Canyon, Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Baja California, Indonesia's Komodo Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula, as recommended by paddling experts. Compelling...
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"Kayak illustrates important paddling techniques through humorous illustrations and detailed explanations from renowned paddler William Nealy. Completely updated to reflect the latest in paddling technology, Nealy's classic manual is dead-on hilarious. From hardcore hippy hairboaters who used to catch air in their block-long Dancers to insane youngsters clattering tiny play boats down steep creeks with more rocks than water, Nealy is back and more...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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Drawn by its mysterious history and wild and rugged shores, the remote and little-known Australian island of Tasmania proved to be perfect coastline for us to explore by kayak, stopping along the 600-mile route to visit with fishermen and historians, sailors and aboriginals.
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Kayaking is an exhilarating sport ideal for fitness, upper body strength and improved flexibility. Yet with all sporting activities, you face real danger and threats each time you head into the water. It is vital that you have knowledge on how to avoid the risks and have fun safely while kayaking, whether you are a complete beginner or have some previous experience. In "How to Paddle a Kayak" you will find heaps of valuable information that will prepare...
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"The Art of Stand Up Paddling" includes everything both new and not-so-new paddlers need to know--from buying a board and getting started on your local lake to paddling rivers and surfing waves in Hawaii. Also included is a fascinating and controversial history of stand up paddling, which, although new to many, actually dates back hundreds of years to Peruvian and Hawaiian fishermen.
14) Yellow kayak
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2018]
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"A child and his beloved giraffe go on a grand sea adventure"--
15) AMC's best sea kayaking in New England: 50 coastal paddling adventures from Maine to Connecticut
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Appalachian Mountain Club Books
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[2016]
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16) Kayaking
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"Engaging images accompany information about kayaking. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
17) Rapids: a novel
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A riveting white-water ride down a raging river in the Italian Alps, pitting people against Nature, in "the novel Tim Parks was born to write" (Sunday Telegraph, London). When 15 vacationers-six adults and nine adolescents-arrive in the Italian Alps to try their kayaking skills against the wild waters of the upper Aurino River, they have no idea what harrowing events await them. Among the group are the London banker Vince- recently widowed and trying...
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It is the Everest of rivers, a maelstrom of water and rocks, gradient and flow. It is the world's last great adventure prize, remote, forbidding, and hidden from Western eyes. Long considered unrunnable, the Tsangpo River has drawn extreme kayakers since the sport was born. It's killed them too. One group did it. A mammoth, old-school adventure team led by a young, fiery river cowboy battled the white water, their Sherpa, and a Himalayan winter...
19) Kayaking
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"What makes kayaking an extreme sport? Ever tried staying right-side up in swirling rapids that want to turn you upside down? Learn all about kayaking in whitewater, down waterfalls, and even on the ocean. Question prompts included to assist reader comprehension."--
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Theroux chronicles his journey--by kayak--through a world of wonders among the islands of the Pacific, from New Zealand to New Guinea, Tahiti to Hawaii. Theroux investigates seldom-visited shores, meets remarkable people, and explores fabled Easter Island in this witty account.
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