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All for a Few Perfect Waves - David Rensin
ISBN: 0224075861
All For a Few Perfect Waves is a wonderful book. In the mysterious, magnificent and mercurial Miki Dora, David Rensin has found the perfect subject. You may like Dora. You may hate him. But you will never tire of him through the very impressive shine of Rensin's reporting and writing
-- RedbridgeCountry of origin: other
Base 66: a story of fear, fun and freefall - Jevto Dedijer
ISBN: 0595335101
Remind me not to do this at 69 or at any time!!!
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
Blazing Saddles - the cruel and unusual history of the Tour de France - Matt Rendall
ISBN: 978 184 724 3
-- KingstonCountry of origin: France
Grand Prix saboteurs: GP drivers who became British secret agents - Joe Saward
ISBN: 0955486807
James Bond meets Michael Schumacher. The idea of racing drivers working as secret agents is at best far-fetched but this amazing TRUE story is of how three top Grand Prix drivers from the 1920s and 1930s worked for the British secret service in occupied France, during World War II.
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
How triathlon ruined my life - Daren Roberts
ISBN: 1844264696
You've been warned!
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
Life on the Run: coast to coast - Matt Beardshall
ISBN: 9781845492472
3 men on a charity challenge, two running,one on a bike,as well as two in a car, travel from the Cumbrian Coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire.For runners and armchair runners alike. Inspiring, informative and funny - a good read
-- HarrowCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Little girls in pretty boxes: making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters - Joan Ryan
ISBN: 0704344882
Published to coincide with the Olympic Games in Atlanta (but still relevant now), an expose of the punishing training schedules, the pressure to perform, the severe and debilitating injuries and the routine, legal and even celebrated abuse of young women which, Ryan asserts, lie at the heart of international gymnastics and figure skating.
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780552997027
Accompanied by his friend Katz (first met in Neither Here Nor There), the two attempt to walk the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail.
-- KingstonCountry of origin: United States
ISBN: 9781416511366
An inspirational true account of how a woman suffering with terminal cancer pushes herself to her physical limits in a bid to raise money for charity. As a loving mother and wife, Jane is breathtakingly brave and selfless and despite her tragic diagnosis, the book is an uplifting tale of the indomnitable human spirit.
-- BromleyCountry of origin: other
The climb: tragic ambitions on Everest - Anatoli Boukreev
ISBN: 0330488961
Exciting adventure, plus disaster.
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
