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  • Why Indiana is the Center of the Basketball World
    Michael G. Ludlow
    Basketball is now the second most popular sport worldwide, trailing only football and soccer in the number of participants, fans, and leagues. Its popularity is due to the fact that the game of basketball requires the most number of physical skills, making basketball players the most complete athletes. The speed, grace, and teamwork required to play the game combined with the a...
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    15,89 €

  • First Responder Resilience
    Tania Glenn
    The tradition in emergency services has been to largely ignore mental health. This has never, nor will it ever, work. Recently there has been increased awareness of burnout, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and first responder suicide. Unfortunately, awareness is not enough. Dramatic videos sharing war stories do not offer solutions for these problems. This book is designed to g...
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    11,55 €

  • Search & Rescue in Colorado's Sangre de Cristos
    Kevin G. Wright
    Kevin Wright wrote this book to honor the heroic men and women who volunteer their own time, resources, skills, and potentially their lives to serve on small, rural mountain search and rescue teams. Their bravery in the service of others is the embodiment of heroism. Another reason he shares these stories is to honor all the subjects and their families who have suffered immense...
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    15,86 €

  • Hidden in Plain View
    Duane Redford
    Ever wonder what the angler downstream of you catching fish in water you just fished is doing differently from you? Master angler and author Duane Redford delves into what the top 10% of anglers are seeing and doing differently from the fly fishing masses, and how they are consistently putting fish in the net in every situation. This work is a culmination of hundreds of hours o...
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    22,72 €

  • The Endless Knot
    Kurt Diemberger
    ‘A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.’ Stephen Venables, Alpine JournalAcclaimed as one of the most powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written, The Endless Knot is a harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster.A rare first-hand account from a survivor at the very epicentre of the drama, The Endless Knot describes the disaster in f...
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    14,73 €

  • Hidden in Plain View
    Duane Redford
    Ever wonder what the angler downstream of you catching fish in water you just fished is doing differently from you? Master angler and author Duane Redford delves into what the top 10% of anglers are seeing and doing differently from the fly fishing masses, and how they are consistently putting fish in the net in every situation. This work is a culmination of hundreds of hours o...
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    31,88 €

  • Jogging Around New England
    Charles Hanson Towne
    First published in 1939, this vintage book contains a charming travelogue of the author’s experiences jogging around New England, north-eastern United States. An authentic glimpse into American life in the early twentieth century, 'Jogging Around New England' is not to be missed by fans and collectors of vintage travel writing. Contents include: 'On the Hurry of Americans', 'A ...
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    23,34 €

  • Campfire Musings - Life and Good Times in the Woods
    William Cunningham Gray / WMCGray
    'Campfire Musings - Life and Good Times in the Woods' is a collection of notes and anecdotes written by WM. C Gray on the subject of nature. These beautiful and profound writings are recommended for all lovers of the Great Outdoors, and they are not to be missed by the discerning collector of allied literature. Contents include: 'The Camp-fire', 'The Michigan Brule', 'Nameless ...
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    21,82 €

  • No Chains Around My Feet
    Nomoya M Mahlangu
    This book closely examines how the enterprise of running mirrors the key facets of life. The author draws parallels between running and life so as to enhance the lessons that readers can draw from each of these phenomena. Running resembles life, and the latter carries a myriad of lessons for the former. This book is not about running per se, nor is it meant to be an all-encompa...
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    24,36 €

  • No Chains Around My Feet
    Nomoya M Mahlangu
    This book closely examines how the enterprise of running mirrors the key facets of life. The author draws parallels between running and life so as to enhance the lessons that readers can draw from each of these phenomena. Running resembles life, and the latter carries a myriad of lessons for the former. This book is not about running per se, nor is it meant to be an all-encompa...
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    14,01 €

  • Climbing Mt. Fuji
    Richard Reay
    This is a 'must read' for anyone who wishes to be successful in climbing Mt. Fuji. Don't be fooled by the apparent simplicity of the mountain - it is a tough and grueling climb and the guidebook explains all there is to know about it. The guidebook is a comprehensive and easy to read recipe for what it takes physically and psychologically to get to the summit of this amazin...
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    22,33 €

  • Lost at Windy Corner
    Aaron Linsdau
    Fans of Jon Krakauer, Cheryl Strayed, and Alfred Lansing will love this book.What are you willing to risk for your dreams?Lost near lethal crevasses and cliffs in a blinding whiteout blizzard is the last place anyone would want to be…Windy Corner on Denali has claimed lives, fingers, and toes. What would make someone brave lethal weather, crevasses, and slick ice to attempt to ...
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    17,26 €

  • The Prepper's Guide to Surviving EMP Attacks, Solar Flares and Grid Failures
    Meade David
    When the lights go out for good, what will you do?  EMPs destroy our electrical grid. All related electronic devices go into immediate failure mode.  This affects transportation, food and water distribution and your safety and security. Do you know all of the background on what causes and constitutes a grid failure?  You’re about the read the Ultimate EMP Survival Book. Knowled...
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    9,37 €

  • Quest for Adventure
    Chris Bonington
    Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth’s elements: crossing its oceans, deserts and poles; canoeing its rivers; climbing its mountains, and descending into its caves.Bonington selects seventeen of the most thrilling expeditions ...
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    18,44 €

  • The Honest Backpacker
    James Klopovic / Nicole Klopovic
    The soul-stirring majesty of watching the sunrise from the top of a mountain. The simple pleasure of getting drinking water from a cool, crystal-clear woodland stream. The warm camaraderie that you only find on the trail. Backpacking is a magical pursuit. It’s not only anexcellent way to achieve lifelong fitness and health, but it can also be a profoundly moving and unforgettab...
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    11,60 €

  • A Guide to Running Your First Marathon
    Doug Limbrick
    For many novice and even some experienced runners completing the 42.2 kilometres (26 miles) involved in running a marathon seems daunting and too difficult to contemplate. For those who have run a half marathon the thought of running two half marathons back to back may seem impossible. However this short book has been written to demonstrate that most runners can complete a mara...
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    8,44 €

  • I Camped Utah
    Shoshana Smith
    A comprehensive listing of Utah's 369 public campgrounds, including specific amenities, seasonal information, detailed directions, pricing, area trails, campsite photos and campground maps. Whether camping at national parks, state parks or county parks; in redrock country on BLM lands or in one of Utah's six national forests, 'I Camped Utah' will help you plan your Utah...
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    29,76 €

  • Denali Ranger
    Lew Freedman
    Roger Robinson has been Denali mountaineering for over forty years and has worked as a ranger for most of this time. Robinson has climbed Denali, at 20,310 feet, numerous times, leading patrols on the mountain, organizing clean climb efforts on the mountain, meeting the best climbers in the world, and leading rescues that saved lives. Year after year, Robinson has studied the m...
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    16,39 €

  • Haunted Hikes
    Maren Horjus / Sarah Lamagna
    Strange things happen in the woods—vanishing figures along backcountry paths, eerie noises half-heard near urban pathways, pungent and undefined smells blanketing forest trails. Science falls short of explaining these phenomena…Haunted Hikes tells the stories behind 100 spooky and sinister areas across the country—from the Ghost House Trail in Big Ridge State Park, Tennessee, w...
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    14,53 €

  • That Untravelled World
    Eric Shipton
    ‘It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.’That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. Eric Shipton was a pioneering explorer, journeying to places that did not feature on maps and to unexplored mountains, such as the High Dauphiné.Shipton describes early childh...
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    15,08 €

  • End of the Portage
    Phil Weir
    Whether a person is a canoeist or kayaker, someone who once paddled or has never paddled, someone who might like to paddle, or someone who just loves to read true stories that celebrate wild nature, End of the Portage will bring them along on a wonderful canoe journey. In the heart of Algonquin Park, on the beautiful Petawawa River, in Ontario Canada, a lone paddler gets into d...
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    13,23 €

  • Kokoda Trek
    Nikki Moyes
    “Steep are the hills we’re climbing today,Rivers and valleys dividing the way.”-Porters’ songKnown as one of the world’s most spectacular and challenging treks, the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, offers the experience of a lifetime.On the 75th anniversary of the campaign between Australian and Japanese troops, author Nikki Moyes trekked the 96km of track where her grandfathe...
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    15,72 €

  • Clouds from Both Sides
    Julie Tullis
    ‘If I could choose a place to die, it would be in the mountains.’Clouds from Both Sides is the autobiography of Julie Tullis, the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre peak – Broad Peak – and the first to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.A truly remarkable woman, Julie describes her early days in a London disrupted by World War II; her family li...
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    14,88 €

  • Can I See your Hands
    Gavriel Schneider
    The title of this book: CAN I SEE YOUR HANDS refers to one of the key outcomes of this book-- being able to tell whether or not people want to cause us harm. To put it very simply, if you can see someone's hands and they are not concealing them, holding a weapon or positioning to strike you, one's levels of trust and confidence can increase. This simple example can serv...
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    35,50 €

  • Buhari
    Linda Horning
    While planning her second trek in Nepal in 2014, Linda Schuyler Horning's dream of family closeness is shattered. She learns her Kathmandu resident son, Adam, will marry Amita, a high-spirited Nepali woman she has never met. Invited, along with her husband, Paul, to be part of a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony, Horning struggles to balance her fear of letting go against ...
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    16,35 €

  • Prepping For Life
    Grant Cunningham
    The airwaves and internet are always full of bad news, and it seems as though the bad news is increasing. Each day brings a new threat to your health, safety, and happiness, while authorities and experts urge you to “be prepared.”But just how should you prepare? How do you plan to survive in the midst of your already busy life? How do you know what to prepare for first? It seem...
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    10,54 €

  • The Magician’s Glass
    Ed Douglas
    'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?’The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing.In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the...
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    17,71 €

  • This Step Home
    Jeffrey Wells Falconer
    Walking meditation has been practiced for centuries in many parts of the world. Some practices are strict and ritualized, others more free and easy. In “This Step Home”, writing directly from his half-century of meditation practice, Jeff Falconer provides step-by-step  instruction in a simple and accessible style of walking meditation. The everyday act of walking, along with a ...
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    9,59 €

  • Tina Chantrey’s Divorce Survival Guide
    Tina Chantrey
    Tina Chantrey is a mum to three girls, as well as an author, journalist and running coach. She is a contributing editor of 'Women’s Running UK' magazine; her freelance career spans over 20 years, during which she has written on all aspects of health, fitness and nutrition for titles like Zest, Top Santé, Mother and Baby, Pregnancy & Birth and Cosmopolitan. In 2016 Tina, bloggin...
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    9,61 €

  • The Pants Of Perspective
    Anna McNuff
    When I ran, I ran for pleasure. I didn’t run for times, to win, to impress: I ran for me. When I ran my bum cheeks rubbed together, so much so that if I was going on a long run I’d have to ‘lube up’. I maintained that I was not a ‘real’ runner – I just liked to run so that I could eat cake.Anna was never anything like those ‘real’ runners on telly – all spindly limbs, tiny shor...
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    11,24 €


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