Without A Paddle

Author : Warren Richey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429924330
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without a Paddle written by Warren Richey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far as Warren Richey knew, his life was on course. A reporter with a beautiful wife and talented son, Richey couldn’t imagine how it could be any better....Then his marriage falls apart and he can’t imagine how it could be any worse. The divorce leaves Richey questioning everything, while struggling to find a way forward. To get his bearings, he enters the first Ultimate Florida Challenge, an all-out twelve-hundred-mile kayak race around Florida. The UFC is less of a race than it is a dare or a threat. The thirty-day deadline sets a grueling, twenty-four-hour-a-day pace through shark- , alligator- , and even python-infested waters. But those twelve hundred miles are only a fraction of a journey that pulls Richey back to when he was embedded with troops in Iraq, reporting on missing children, and hiking the mountains of Montana with his son, and shows him where he went wrong, where he went right, and how to do it better the second time around. Warren Richey’s memoir Without a Paddle is a remarkable physical and emotional journey that cuts to the heart of what it means to be a man, a husband, and a father.

Author : Doug Lansky
Publisher : Meadow Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881663341
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up the Amazon Without a Paddle written by Doug Lansky and published by Meadow Brook Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doug Lansky travels the world looking for adventures and reports them with a dry wit in a syndicated newspaper column. This anthology of his writings contains 60 of his adventures, including: fending off hippos with a canoe paddle on the Zambesi River; swimming with dolphins off the coast of New Zealand; riding an ostrich in South Africa; lassoing reindeer above the Arctic Circle; diving for treasure in Key West; wrestling an alligator in Florida; and crossing the Great Indian Desert on a nauseous camel.

Author : Lynne Farr
Publisher : Lynne Farr
ISBN 13 : 9781435715714
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Grid Without a Paddle written by Lynne Farr and published by Lynne Farr. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OFF THE GRID WITHOUT A PADDLE is the true story of two greenhorns, escapees from the gritty City Of Los Angeles, who buy a home off the grid in a tropical mountain rainforest in rural Hawaii, with fantasies of utopia and dreams of self-sufficiency, but no real idea of what they're getting into. In their first year in an unfamiliar new world, the high-tech, low-tech, no-tech learning curve is steep and hilarious: exasperating, exhilarating . . . exciting! Whether or not you share the dream of moving off the grid, you'll get a laugh out of their unexpected adventures.

Author : David Moffatt
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785891685
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without a Paddle written by David Moffatt and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and bred in the North East of England, David Moffatt had no intention of disturbing his deep roots in the banks of the Tyne until his University tutor asked him to go to Mato Grosso in Brazil. With a fraught love life, and his football team heading for relegation, suddenly a year in the jungle sounded like a good idea. His life is changed forever... Against a backdrop of growing up in postwar Tyneside, Without a Paddle describes David’s travels in a series of tales and delightful vignettes. Amusing, sometimes hilarious, occasionally sad, we meet his drunken bush guide that he has to disarm, his incompetent camp cook who nearly poisons his boss, an odd assortment of expeditionaries from the elderly entomologist that David has to save from the wasps to a sexchange capybara, and the young female zoologist who…well, it’s all in the book. With a major bid submission hours away, David gets locked stark naked in his bathroom in Cairo, exiting via the window to a busy street seems his only option. At the height of the ‘red terror’ in post-revolutionary Ethiopia, his room is searched while he sleeps – and was the hammering on his door in a seedy hotel in Ogaden the beginning of a kidnap? New Year’s Eve in Rio finds him in a club to which he doesn’t belong and discover what happens to the Gambian beauty queen in Banjul market. After growing up on Tyneside with a teddy bear that travelled to South Africa, playing and watching football and more football, singing with The Invaders and being suspended from school, none of this had equipped David with the paddle he needed to steer him through his travels. Without a Paddle is a light-hearted memoir that will appeal to those with an interest in foreign travel, or who simply enjoy a good laugh.

Author : Richard Cutler
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595101585
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Hill Without a Paddle written by Richard Cutler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wonderful collection of short, funny pieces, Richard Cutler covers the gamut from nostalgia to conjecture on such topics as clowns, cholesterol and calling in sick to the supervisory voice mail. Along the way he sharpens his wit on exercise, politicians, road rage, souvenir shopping while traveling light and women's attraction to hand-held power tools. He reports on place and people names, profanity-free TV, holiday traditions, guy things and old fashioned etiquette. And he offers his experiences with gene pool backup, old wives' tales, women's fashions (and the storage thereof), following RV's and flying steerage class. The careful reader will discover such incidental insights as his theory of why Eskimos gave up kissing for rubbing noses and what the young Marquis de Sade's nanny said that may have suggested all those weird ideas. But the casual reader will learn something too. And not just that the author has entirely too much time on his hands. Interspersed among these views of the passing scene are subtle indications that--paddles or not--we may all of us be headed up the creek. So to speak.

Author : G. B. Taken
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304300617
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Consumer Creek Without a Paddle: Take Control Before You Go Under written by G. B. Taken and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Offerman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698138325
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paddle Your Own Canoe written by Nick Offerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.

Author : Don Rearden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942549710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without a Paddle written by Don Rearden and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Wiest
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516034447
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down the River Without a Paddle written by Robert Wiest and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A caterpillar, blown by a storm, makes a harrowing trip down the river on a leaf, barely escaping with his life.

Author : Dorian Amos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903070826
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Life written by Dorian Amos and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absolutely inspiring true tale of a young couple who gave up the "good life" in England to start a new life in the wilderness of the Yukon Dorian Amos—a painter from Cornwall—and his wife decided that they were in need of adventure, so they gave up their comfortable life and traveled to Yukon Territory in the remote Canadian wilderness. Told by Dorian with warmth and humor, this is the compelling account of their adventures. Buying a piece of land in the forest just outside Dawson City, they revel in the stark beauty of the landscape and the liberation they feel from the mundanity of their former home—crossing frozen rivers just to buy food, hunting caribou, coming face to face with bears, and building their own log cabin. The perfect tale for anyone feeling that there must be more to life, their story will convince readers to stop putting their dreams on hold.