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Baseball, you are the manager: You Are The Manager (You Are The Coach Ser.)
By Nathan Aaseng. 1983
Invites the reader to make decisions about do-or-die situations in ten World Series games. Describes what actually happened and how…
it affected the outcome of the game. Grade 5-8 and older readers. 1983.Baseball days: from the sandlots to "the show"
By Bill Littlefield. 1993
A self-confessed baseball traditionalist, Littlefield tours the whole of the baseball world, from Little League games to the major leagues.…
With chapters on hitting and pitching, and tryout camps and old-timers, Littlefield is searching for the soul of baseball, where it is played as a pure game. 1993.Baseball life advice
By Stacey May Fowles. 2017
Fowles gives us a candid perspective on subjects ranging from bat flips to bandwagoners, from the romance of spring training…
to the politics of cheating, from the importance of having a favourite player to the near-religious splendour of a no-hitter. She confronts the stereotypes that female fans lack real knowledge about the game and are only at the ballpark for the eye candy, and calls out the "boys will be boys" attitudes and its implications both on and off the field. She also offers exhilarating snapshots of the Blue Jays' 2015 season, and reflects on the relevance of specific players not only to the average fan, but to the game's history as a whole. Fowles explores how we can use the lens of baseball to examine who we are--for better or worse--and reminds us that our love for the game shouldn't stop us from demanding it be better to its players and its fans. Bestseller. 2017.Base 66: a story of fear, fun, and freefall
By Jevto Dedijer. 2004
"Base 66" is the true, nerve-wracking account of three young skydivers and their quest for membership in the most select…
extreme sports club on earth: The Base club. In order to become a full-fledged member, Jevto Dedijer, Bernard Poirier, and Scott Elder had to parachute from the top of a building, an antenna tower, a bridge and a cliff, and survive to tell the story - a feat only some 800 adrenaline addicted people have succeeded in doing. 2004.Baseball anecdotes
By Daniel Okrent, Steve Wulf. 1989
This collection portrays 150 years of great triumphs, heart-breaking losses and amusing blunders in the history of baseball, including the…
Chicago "Black" Sox Scandal of 1919 and the miraculous comeback of the Mets in the 1986 World Series. 1989.Arctic daughter: a wilderness journey
By Jean Aspen. 1988
Jean Aspen and her companion paddle up an unknown river in Alaska to build a cabin in the Brooks Range…
and "live off the land". This story chronicles their many adventures in the harsh but beautiful Arctic landscape. 1988.Arctic son: Fulfilling The Dream
By Jean Aspen. 1995
Jean Aspen returns to the Alaskan wilderness with her son and husband and chronicles their remarkable fourteen-month stay there, separated…
from the outside world. The family struggles courageously against nature and the elements in America's last wild frontier. Sequel to "Arctic daughter". 1995.Aloha Wanderwell: the border-smashing, record-setting life of the world's youngest explorer
By Christian Fink-Jensen, Randolph Eustace-Walden. 2016
In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling…
secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. Aloha's mission was foolhardy in the extreme. Drivable roads were scarce and cars were alien to much of the world. The Wanderwell Expedition created a specially modified Model T Ford for the journey that featured gun scabbards and a sloped back that could fold out to become a darkroom. All that remained was for Aloha to learn how to drive. Aloha became known around the globe. She was photographed in front of the Eiffel Tower, parked on the back of the Sphinx, firing mortars in China, shaking hands with Mussolini, and smiling at a tickertape parade in Detroit. By the age of 25, she had become a pilot, a film star, an ambassador for world peace, and the centrepiece of one of the biggest unsolved murder mysteries in California history. Her story defied belief, but it was true. Every bit of it. Except for her name. 2016.Amelia lost: the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
By Candace Fleming. 2011
Biography of pilot Amelia Earhart offers an account of her attempt to circumnavigate the globe - a journey that ended…
when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937. Discusses Earhart’s adventurous nature, the difficulties of long-distance flight, and the lack of navigational equipment aboard her plane. For grades 4-7. 2011.Alive: the story of the Andes survivors
By Piers Paul Read. 1974
The author tells the extraordinary and often distressing story told to him by the survivors of an aircrash in the…
Andes, of their fading hopes of rescue and determination to stay alive at all costs. 1974.Against the flow: the inspiring story of a teacher turned record-making yachtswoman
By Dee Caffari, Elaine Bunting. 2007
More people have walked on the moon than have successfully completed a westabout circumnavigation. In 2006, Caffari became the first…
woman to sail solo around the world against the prevailing winds and currents, braving physical hardship in terrible conditions, overcoming solitude, sleep deprivation, the worry of crucial equipment failing, 34 days of gales, 12 metre waves, cyclones and a lightning strike. c2007.Adrift: Seventy-six days lost at sea
By Steven Callahan. 1987
When Steven Callahan's small yacht sank west of the Canaries, he found himself adrift in a five-foot inflatable raft, pounded…
by storms, scorched by the tropical sun and attacked by sharks. This is his own account of that 76-day ordeal as he drifted 1,800 miles across the Atlantic in 1983. "Although the sea was my greatest enemy, it was also my greatest ally." 1987.Adventure in depth
By William Donald Alian King. 1975
A wolverine is eating my leg (Vintage departures)
By Tim Cahill. 1973
In this collection of 18 adventure essays, the author describes deep sea scuba diving, avalanche skiing, and white-water rafting. He…
also spent time with Dian Fossey and her gorillas, visited Jim Jones' death camp in Guyana, and investigated Bigfoot accounts in the Pacific Northwest. 1989, c1973.A pirate of exquisite mind: explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
By Diana Preston, Michael Preston. 2004
In the late 1600s, Dampier, an Englishman, circumnavigated the globe three separate times, mapping nearly every place he visited, but…
was also a buccaneer launching raids on Spanish ships. He was the first self-made naturalist to visit the Galapagos - his sketches of the region's turtles set the stage for Darwin's future visit - and his theories about how wind patterns affect ocean currents are still used today. 2004.A hug for the apostle: on foot from Chartres to Santiago de Compostela
By Laurie Dennett. 1987
In 1986, Laurie Dennett walked from Chartres, France to Santiago, Spain, following the famous medieval pilgrims' route, to raise money…
to support research into multiple sclerosis. This personal day-by-day account of her experience is part diary, part travelogue, part history and part inspiration. c1987.A gentleman adventurer: the Arctic diaries of R.H.G. Bonnycastle (A Richard Bonnycastle book. #2.)
By R. H. G Bonnycastle, Heather Robertson. 1984
In 1925, a young lawyer was drawn by the mystery and excitement of the Arctic. He joined the Hudson's Bay…
Company as an accountant and made many trips to the North. 1984.A desert dies
By Michael Asher. 1986
An account of the author's journeys in the drought-stricken Sudan from 1982 through 1985. Travelling on camel and on foot,…
Asher lived with various members of the Kababish tribe of nomadic Arabs who inhabit this part of the Sahara Desert. c1986.10,000 hours: a helicopter pilot in the North
By Peter Corley-Smith. 1985
A humorous account of the author's experiences as a Canadian helicopter bush pilot from 1964 to 1975. His helicopter travels…
took him to Labrador, Baffin Island, Yukon and British Columbia. Corley-Smith later worked as a Research Assistant at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, BC. 1995, c1985.Goldfinder: the true story of one man's discovery of the ocean's richest secrets
By Keith Jessop. 1998
This is the story of Keith Jessop, the most successful underwater treasure hunter in history. It describes how Jessop went…
from being a penniless Yorkshire boy to salvaging 5 tons of Russian gold worth over one hundred million dollars from the HMS Edinburgh, which lay 1000 feet at the bottom of the ocean.