Emmy Award-winning journalist and fifth-generation Oregon native Grant McOmie provides travelers with an in-depth guide to 101 of the best Oregon destinations featured in his popular television series Grant's Getaways , produced by KGW-TV and Travel Oregon. Come along with Grant McOmie as he explores family-friendly destinations and day trips across the width and breadth of Oregon. From kayaking in Netarts Bay, riding a jet boat on the Rog ...
This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood’s fourth edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads. This latest edition includes thirty-seven hikes rated easy to difficult by mountain range; revised information on precautions for desert hiking; ...
A treasure trove of useful (and just plain fun) information about Colorado’s mountain country. A handy-dandy, comprehensive, wide-ranging reference guide to settling (good-naturedly) any arguments about Colorado’s high country. We’re not just talking about population figures, elevation stats, or lists of Fourteeners and rivers, although these are included. You will learn far more including mountain lexicons (so that you’ll know what a gutter bun ...
?Lisa Frederic was just your average Alaska fisherwoman when a vacation in Nome to see the burled-arch finish of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race changed her life forever. The mushers’ devotion to their dogs and the sheer grit required to complete the epic race lit a spark in Lisa. She started as a volunteer at checkpoints along the race, became an apprentice to Iditarod champion Jeff King, and, finally, mushed her own dog team in the world’s gr ...
This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team. Against long odds the Whalers had to practice and play in extreme conditions and travel hundreds of miles from home when they went on the «road,» flying for each game.They ended their first season victorious, while maintaining their subsistence hunter-gather culture. ...
Eine Kegelbahn als Ablose fur drei Handballer, «Schneewittchens Rache» an Heiner Brand, Howard Carpendale statt Krokodil, «Rauber Hotzenplotz» stiehlt den DHB-Pokal. Kuriose Geschichten, die ebenso Teil der spannenden 50-jahrigen Geschichte der Bundesliga sind, wie die Liga-Grundung, die goldene Ara des VfL Gummersbach, die Erfindung der schnellen Mitte, das Bosman-Urteil, die Tragodie des Joachim Deckarm und die unglaubliche 68:0 Punkte-Saison ...
A boys’ book for both men and women, a spot-on depiction of a typical male friendship, but written in a sensitive, subtle manner. • Lead title with AFP of 30,000 copies
• International bestseller—over 200,000 copies sold in Europe
• Glowing reviews in the UK, including the Guardian. World Edition’s UK bestseller!
Эта книга способна как пробудить интерес к теме, так и остудить его на веки веков. Автор предлагает ещё один взгляд на тему «ножевого боя» и историю боевых искусств в России.Взгляните с авторской колокольни на уже известный или новый для вас предмет зарождающегося боевого спорта.Трактат предлагает своё противоядие, способное убрать лишнее и указать на важное. А далее, имеющий глаза да увидит, имеющий разум поймёт. Автор претендует исключительно ...
Цель авторов – создать простое для понимания и применения руководство по физической подготовке для сотрудников силовых структур.Предлагаемые авторами методы и средства подобраны исходя из анализа специфики деятельности сотрудников и их потребностей к физической подготовленности.Пособие включает необходимый минимум теории для лучшего понимания программы.Пособие также предлагает принципиальную схему тренировок и готовую к применению программу трен ...