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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR JOIN THE QUEST TO SURF THE BIGGEST WAVE IN HISTORY.In a small fishing village on the coast of Portugal, a select band of surfers take unimaginable risks, pushing the boundaries of their death-defying sport as...
Editeur :
Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution :
2023-05-11
ePub
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"A thoughtful, funny, and at times lyrical" (Wall Street Journal) exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2021-09-14
ePub
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Libro de referencia que formará parte de la guantera del coche o de la mochila de todos los practicantes de deportes extremos. Se presentan todos los aspectos de la preparación física y mental de los atletas para los deportes extremos. Planes de entrenamiento. Consejos...
Editeur :
De Vecchi Ediciones
Parution :
2016-07-15
ePub
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What do fierljeppen, running 156 miles in the Sahara desert and coal-carrying all have in common? They’re just some of the wackiest, toughest and most extreme manpower races and challenges dreamt up by the human race.This fact-packed miscellany is bursting with all the...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2015-07-09
ePub
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A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human.Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2014-03-04
ePub
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No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Written by...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2012-03-01
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man. Canada is a country of extremes, andCharley knows all about pushing the limits. He goes dirt biking in New...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2012-01-05
ePub
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