Sport

An invaluable guide to this popular and beautiful canal, providing cruising and background info on the canal, as well as distance maps for each stage, showing locks, bridges and yacht havens, all illustrated with enticing colour photos.

This one-of-a-kind guide gives novice coaches the know-how they need to run perfect practices and develop individual and team skills through drills. Unlike other hockey coaching guides, it also brings along a great attitude and covers the whole range of off-the-ice coaching issues, from choosing equipment to holding player-parent meetings. .

World-famous horse gentler Monty Roberts answers all your horse-related questions

The British Horse Society's comprehensive guide to the care and management of horses and ponies. The aim of this volume is to provide a reliable source of information and advice on all practical aspects of horse and stable management.

Now in paperback, author and ultramarathoner Danny Dreyer explains the running technique he created to heal and prevent injuries that enabled him to be a nationally ranked runner

Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger, Sven Goran Eriksson, Fabio Capello and Marcello Lippi, amongst others, add their not inconsiderable weight to the highest-profile symposium on football ever convened. Gianluca Vialli and Gabriele Marcotti explore every aspect of football, be it tactical and technical or cultural and sociological.

If you're a connoisseur of the high and wild, just hearing the name Bugaboos is enough to make you feverish with wanderlust. Topher Donahue captures not just the landscape but the people and dreams that shape these otherworldly peaks. --John Flinn, Executive Travel Editor, San Francisco Chronicle Bugaboo Dreams is a marvellously detailed account of the evolution of heli-skiing and -hiking in the Canadian Rockies. More importantly, however, it is the story of the remarkable man behind the business, Hans Gmoser, whose passion and commitment to mountain environments led to a lifetime of bringing others to recreate in these places he loved the most. --Rebecca Martin, Executive Director, Expedition Council, National Geographic Society The stars were aligned to create this remarkable story: a vast mountain wilderness of rock spires and undulating glaciers and a visionary individual who inspired others to help transform his Bugaboo dreams into reality. Topher Donahue has captured the tale in an engaging manner that makes for a great read. --Bernadette McDonald, author and former Director of The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivals. It was an honour and one of the highlights of my youth to be part of the beginnings of the Bugaboos. Skiing with Hans Gmoser and the wonderful guides who joined him became an indelible experience, not only for the ultimate thrill of skiing in deep powder through the trees and vast open areas of untracked territory, but it also gave me an insight into the true qualities of leadership. Topher Donahue beautifully captures the essence of the experience and the hearts and souls of the pioneers who have made helicopter skiing a passion for so many. --Isadore Issy Sharp, founder, chairman and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts and Companion to the Order of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Take the snowiest mountains in Canada, add two Austrian immigrants, an army of adrenaline-addicted skiers (kings, queens, billionaires, average people and everyday ski bums) and throw a helicopter into the mix for an unforgettable story of mountain adventure. The tale begins when two childhood friends-Hans Gmoser and Leo Grillmair-leave postwar Austria and travel to Canada in search of adventure. They stumble upon employment taking skiers across the vast glaciers and through the thick forests of Western Canada. When skiers start asking the immigrant mountaineers if it would be possible to use a helicopter to reach the best high-altitude powder, the two find themselves catapulted into a project brimming with more adventure, success, tragedy and fame than they could have dreamed. Complete with archival and contemporary photos, this is the inside story of the people, thrills, accidents and innovations behind the evolution of a sport from a dangerous, ramshackle and lawless enterprise into a multi-million dollar industry offering reliable access to one of the world's most exciting forms of recreation.

The information is presented in the full colour Rockfax photo-topo style and includes cruicial advice on when and how to tackle the deep water solos. Enticingly illustrated with many stunning photographs, the majority taken by the author Mike Robertson who has been instrumental in developing and promoting deep water solos throughout the world.

A step-by-step guide to modern shooting etiquette stuffed full of amusing quotes and anecdotes, which will instruct the Gun on how to be the perfect guest out shooting - and hence, how to be asked again. With interviews from beaters, keepers, flankers, pickers up, shoot organisers, shoot owners, and grouse moor owning earls and dukes.

Now the subject of a major film. Once or twice a generation, an athlete transcends his sport - at last, here's Seve Ballesteros in his own wordsThere are golfers, and there are golfers.

Quite apart from his all too public struggle with alcoholism, the story runs through the surreal highs and calamitous lows of a life lived habitually on the edge of chaos. It is not just a football story.

Suitable for golfers, this book explains how to master different phases of the short game. It maintains that any golfer of average ability can become a deadly short-game player by approaching the subject with a blend of science and art.

Every golfer has 14 clubs in his bag, but the golfers who win have something extra, their 15th Club, their most underused asset

Providing useful tips and information, this book is suitable for archers of various levels. Illustrated with nearly 250 black and white photographs and 80 diagrams, it analyses shooting techniques and tuning, and also emphasizes the development of mental toughness.

Features more than 100 cutaway and drawings to give you a glimpse into the inner workings of powerboats and sailboats, including engines and propulsion gear, steering, rigging, ground tackle, electronic gear, electrical systems, and plumbing.

Suitable for both recreational and competitive boxers, and all those who wish to take up amateur boxing, or participate in a boxing-based programme. This work offers practical advice on the many crucial factors that need to be taken into account if the boxer is to maximize his, or her, performance and potential.

Focuses on modern traditional climbing from a British perspective. This book offers a balance of safety-focused ropework and protection skills with useful tactical and psychological ideas that drive the individual to succeed.

A uniquely user-friendly introduction to sailing and a vital manual for a lifetime of enjoyment and adventure on the water

Helps you select the proper tools for sailboat refinishing, and prepare surfaces for painting and varnishing. This title helps you work with old and new plastic laminates, and lighten aging wood trim, oil, seal, and varnish wood surfaces.

Tells the story of the Tour de France since its creation in 1903. This book links the history of the Tour to key moments and themes in French history. It examines the popularity of Tour racers, and explores how their public images have changed.

Serving as a trekking and climbing guide to Kilimanjaro and East Africa, this second edition features more than 50 routes, including summit walk-ups and serious technical climbs. It includes websites for the trekker/climber; do's and don'ts; travel information; personal observations; planning information and places to stay.

Presents plans and building instructions for three sailing canoes. This title shows you how to build these boats using stitch-and-glue and strip-planking construction. It explains what tools and materials are required, how to rig and equip the boats, and more.

Covers the Shetland Islands.

The SUNDAY TIMES number 1 bestseller -- the extraordinary life story of the greatest footballer ever to play the game.

Learning to ride should be fun, but all too often children can be frightened or put off. This book offers advice, exercises, lesson plans, games and teaching tips to provide variety and sound instruction, plus ideas for making learning to ride an enjoyable, worthwhile and satisfying experience.

Watford FC On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club's rollercoaster history, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes and legendary characters to produce an irresistibly dippable Hornets diary. From the club's formation in 1887 to the Premier League era, there's an entry for every day of the year.

This volume provides a guide to the Inland Waterways of Belgium.

Shows how the author faces his growing alienation from the game he was born into, as he revisits key periods in his father's career to build up a picture of his football life and through him a whole era. This book recaptures a lost world and the way it changed, blending the personal and the historical into a soccer story.