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eBooks for March March 2017
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Vicarious Adventures All titles are available for download to a variety of devices at nh.overdrive.com. Questions? Call Cary at the library, 603-757-1838.
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Addicted to Adventure : Between Rocks and Cold Places by Bob Shepton Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his yacht whilst he was ice-bound in Greenland, the book travels back to his childhood growing up on his family's rubber plantation in Malaysia, moving back to England after his father was shot by the Japanese during the war, and the church. We then follow Bob as he sails around the world with a group of school children, is dismasted off the Falklands, trapped in ice, and climbs mountains accessible only from iceberg-strewn water and with only sketchy maps available.
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Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life by William FinneganThe award-winning author of Cold New World describes his experiences as a lifelong surfer, from his early years as a white youth in Honolulu through his culturally sophisticated pursuits of perfect waves in some of the world's most exotic locales.
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Columbus : The Four Voyages by Laurence BergreenThe award-winning author of Over the Edge of the World chronicles the lesser-known voyages of Columbus after his famous 1492 landfall in the Americas, explaining how they reflected Columbus's uncanny navigational skills before taking an extreme toll on his health and personal circumstances.
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Hound of the Sea : Wild Man, Wild Waves, Wild Wisdom by Garrett McNamaraA profile of the world record-holding Big Wave surfer known as GMac, describes how and why he tackles giant waves, describing how vanquishing fear and overcoming obstacles is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one.
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The Ledge : An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier by Jim DavidsonA full-length account of a story covered in a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article documents the 1992 mountaineering venture during which co-author Jim Davidson and his best friend, Mike Price, ascended Mount Rainier before a tragic fall that instantly ended Mike's life and forced Jim to climb to safety with sparse equipment.
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The Wave : In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan CaseyTraces the recent discovery of physics-defying ocean waves at heights previously thought impossible, describing the efforts of the scientific community to understand the phenomenon, the pursuits of extreme surfers to ride dangerously large waves and the destructive capabilities of tsunamis.
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