Life In A Blue Suit

Author : Jim Saltonstall
Publisher : Fernhurst Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 1912621606
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life in a Blue Suit written by Jim Saltonstall and published by Fernhurst Books Limited. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At five out of the last six Olympic Games team GBR has been the top nation in sailing, a result of strong leadership from the Royal Yachting Association and very talented sailors and coaches. But Barry Pickthall, formerly the Yachting Correspondent of The Times observes: "If one man deserves recognition for Britain's remarkable success within the sailing Olympic arena, it is Jim Saltonstall – the coach who has cajoled, encouraged and inspired so many youngsters towards world stardom over the past 3 decades." This is the story of Jim Saltonstall and his contribution to the success of British sailing. It starts in his home county of Yorkshire and the seaside town of Bridlington where he learnt to sail. It goes through his experiences in the Royal Navy, which he joined aged 15, with tours all around the world but, particularly, sailing with the Royal Navy team and becoming the Royal Navy Sailing Coach. This led to his appointment as the first RYA National Yacht Racing Coach, the development of the GBR Race Training Scheme and, in due course, great success at youth, world and Olympic levels. The 31 Olympic medals won by the 19 sailors who give glowing praise to Jim in the Foreword confirms his contribution to this success. Jim retired from his Team GBR role in 2000, after the Sydney Olympics, but it is a testimony to him that two of the gold medallists from Tokyo 2020 (which took place in 2021 – in elite sports a lifetime since Jim retired) credit him in their success, saying he was a 'huge inspiration' and they 'couldn't help be motivated' by him. On top of twice winning the Yachting Journalists' Association Yachtsman of the Year Award (1984 and 1995), Jim was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 British Yachting Awards. The story is told as modestly as a Yorkshireman can, and is interspaced with tales of cars, car journeys and one or two parties! Jim also takes time out of the story to give his thoughts on all aspects of youth training, competing internationally and coaching. Anyone involved in race training will benefit from the wisdom he provides in these pieces.

Author : Barry "Jack" Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578683621
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Blue Suit written by Barry "Jack" Frost and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry "Jack" Frost joined the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen, standing 5'3" and weighing only 103 pounds. Most expected him to be ejected before the finish of boot camp. However, Frost's combination of determination, grit, kindness, and humor led him to become a master electrician and leader, travelling the world with the Royal Navy for 15 years. In Life in a Blue Suit, Frost weaves his passion for fun and laughter with his insight into human nature, bringing the reader into the world of a master story teller as he tells tales of his life at sea.

Author : Richard Rayner
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 162373018X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Suit written by Richard Rayner and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Rayner had a peripatetic childhood, and it seemed he found some sense of place when he attended Cambridge University. The study of philosophy combined with an obsession with books, however, served as the catalyst for a bizarre life of crime. Mounting debts propelled the author into a series of adventures, as he plundered bookstores for elusive first editions, forged checks, and acted as an accomplice in a Keystone Kops-like attempted bank robbery. In a memoir that's "compelling, edgy, painfully alive" (Times Literary Supplement), like "stripped-down Dostoevsky" (Time), this is the personal story, both tragic and comic, of an absence of identity and a long checkered past of crimes and misdemeanors.

Author : William Gerald Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906050085
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's life in a blue suit written by William Gerald Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Screech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781962658041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Blue Suit and DIfferent Coloured Neckers written by Mike Screech and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Bacho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295976372
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories written by Peter Bacho and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but charming union foreman and "big shot" father to Buddy, our American-born narrator; Chris, the battle-scarred union president targeted by McCarthyism; Rico, the spirited young king of the neighborhood who will fall victim to Vietnam; Stephanie, the beautiful mestiza who marrie up; and many others who age and change in ironic counterpint to persistent themes of loyalty, fierce ethnic pride, and a willingness to struggle against hostile forces in society. There are wry twists of humor and surprising turns of plot; a long-lost love is renewed; a long-hidden family secret is revealed. We encounter the inevitable aging and passing of the Manong generation, but we sense as well the arrival of its vision. Babies are born. The migrant fisheries worker gets a nine-to-five job, and his children go to college. The conclusion builds to a quiet power that is essentially elegiac; an era closes, but the voices of the older generation are shouldered by the younger, to keep the history to retell the stories, and to pay homage.

Author : Gerard McLennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646515816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Blue Suit written by Gerard McLennan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Joyce
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575115323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of the Ladybird written by Graham Joyce and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ghost story with a difference from the WORLD FANTASY and multiple BRITISH FANTASY AWARD-winning author of SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE It is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had. And soon there is a terrible price to be paid for his new found freedom and independence. A price that will come back to haunt him, even in the bright sunlight of summer. As with SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE, Graham Joyce has crafted a deceptively simple tale of great power. With beautiful prose, wonderful characters and a perfect evocation of time and place this is a novel that transcends the boundaries between the everyday and the supernatural while celebrating the power of both.

Author : Robyn Grady
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426844506
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil in a Dark Blue Suit written by Robyn Grady and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eden Foley walked out of millionaire bad boy Devlin Stone's life, she vowed it would be forever. He knew just how to make her tremble with desire, but he was dangerous! Now, forced to contact Devlin, Eden is stunned—he wants to pick up from where they left off. Even worse, her traitorous body seems to agree! Will one night with Devlin mean she can finally move on with her life…? Or has this devil in a dark blue suit got other, more pleasurable plans in mind?

Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Washington Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1982150343
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) written by Walter Mosley and published by Washington Square Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. “More than simply a detective novel…[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” (The New York Times).