Download or read book Swimming with Seals written by Victoria Whitworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intolerable loss. It is also a treasure chest of history and myth, local folklore and archaeological clues, giving us tantalising glimpses of Pictish and Viking men and women, those people lost to history, whose long-hidden secrets are sometimes yielded up by the land and sea.
Download or read book The Warrior Elite written by Dick Couch and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-01-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world. What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? What makes talented, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite, former Navy SEAL Dick Couch documents the process that transforms young men into warriors. SEAL training is the distillation of the human spirit, a tradition-bound ordeal that seeks to find men with character, courage, and the burning desire to win at all costs, men who would rather die than quit.
Download or read book Swimming with Giants written by Anne Collet and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Swimming with Giants, Anne Collet describes the power and majesty of being close to some of nature's most magnificent creatures. Combining science with a sense of adventure, she conveys the sheer excitement of her work, from riding the tail of a white whale to saving animals harmed by drift nets or toxic spills.
Download or read book Swim Safe Little Seals written by Jill MacGregor and published by Seal Pub.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raising Men written by Eric Davis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time. Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen, Eric was desperate to maintain the bonds he’d fought so hard to forge when his children were young—particularly with his son, Jason, because he knew how difficult it was to face the challenge of becoming a man on one’s own. Unfortunately, Eric learned the hard way that Quality Time doesn’t always show up in Quantity Time. Facebook, television, phones, video games, school, jobs, friends—they all got in the way of a real, meaningful father-son relationship. It was time to take action. As a SEAL, Eric learned to innovate and push boundaries, allowing him to function at levels beyond what was expected, comfortable, ordinary, and even imaginable, and he knew that as a father he needed to do the same with his son. Meeting extreme with extreme was the only answer. Using a unique blend of discipline, leadership, adventure, and grace, Eric and his SEAL brothers will teach you how to connect, and reconnect, with your sons and learn how to raise real men—the Navy SEAL way.
Download or read book Swimmers Among the Trees written by Joel Hutchins and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see SEALs on surveillance missions, overwatching the Ho Chi Minh trail, capturing enemy intelligence agents and calling in air and artillery strikes on their foe. We experience insertions into hostile territory by sea and air. We learn the various types of deadly equipment used by these elite Naval commandos in their never-ending pursuit of the enemy.
Download or read book The White Seal written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a white seal named Kotick who learns how to get along in his Arctic environment during his herd's first migration. For elementary grades.
Download or read book Open Water Swimming Manual written by Lynne Cox and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Open Water Swimming Manual provides a wealth of knowledge for all swimmers, from seasoned triathletes and expert swimmers to beginners exploring open water swimming for the first time. Cox methodically addresses what is needed to succeed at and enjoy open water swimming, including choosing the right bathing suit and sunscreen; surviving in dangerous weather conditions, currents, and waves; confronting various marine organisms; treating ailments, such as being stung or bitten, and much more. Cox calls upon Navy SEAL training materials and instructors’ knowledge of open water swimming and safety procedures to guide her research. In addition, first-hand anecdotes from SEAL specialists and stories of Cox’s own experiences serve as both warnings and proper practices to adopt. Open Water Swimming Manual is the first manual of its kind to make use of oceanography, marine biology, and to weave in stories about the successes and failures of other athletes, giving us a deeper, broader understanding of this exhilarating and fast growing sport.
Download or read book Eight Dolphins of Katrina written by Janet Wyman Coleman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "heartening, real-life rescue story"* will grip young readers. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina crashed a forty-foot tidal wave over the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. The dolphin house was demolished, and its inhabitants swept from their tank into the Gulf of Mexico. After growing up in captivity, how could the eight bottlenose dolphins feed and protect themselves in the wild? And if they could survive, would their trainers ever see them again? This fascinating picture book—enriched with both beautiful color-wash illustrations and photographs taken by the trainers themselves—tells this dramatic, happy-ending story. "Animal lovers will empathize as they follow the trainers' worries and ultimate elation." —School Library Journal*
Download or read book Polar Obsession written by Paul Nicklen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking photography of the polar regions and fauna found there.
Download or read book Play Great Pool written by Mark Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elephant Seal Island written by Evelyn Shaw and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 1978-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the cyclical visitations of elephant seals to Ano Nuevo Island in the Pacific Ocean and relates the experiences of a male pup from birth to early adulthood.
Download or read book Piano Star Duets written by ABRSM and published by Star Series (ABRSM). This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Day Of Signs And Wonders written by Kit Pearson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can your whole life change in a single day? Emily dreams of birds. She feels constrained by nearly everything—her overbearing sisters, the expectation to be a proper young lady, and even her stiff white pinafore. Kitty feels undone. Her heart is still grieving a tragic loss, and she doesn’t want to be sent away to a boarding school so far away from home. When the two girls meet by chance, on a beach on the outskirts of Victoria, BC, in 1881, neither knows that their one day together will change their lives forever. Inspired by the childhood of acclaimed Canadian artist Emily Carr, A Day of Signs and Wonders is a sensitive and insightful look at friendship, family, and the foundations of an artist, drawn over the course of a single day—a day in which a comet appears, an artist is born and an aching hole in one girl’s heart begins to heal.
Download or read book Noah s Seal written by Layn Marlow and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah waits all day for Nana's boat to be ready so that they can go seal spotting. He waits and waits, and eventually takes matters into his own hands, building his very own seal out of sand-it's almost as good as the real thing. But it isn't long before a storm whips up, his seal is washed away, and Nana packs up ready to leave. Noah loses all hope that he'll ever spot a real-life seal, until something special happens.
Download or read book Spirit Walker written by Michelle Paver and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torak is a boy aparts - a boy who can talk to wolves, and who must vanquish the Soul-Eaters, or die trying. As the clans fall prey to a horrifying sickness, fear stalks the Forest. The very breath of summer seems poisoned. No-one knows the cause - and only Torak can find the cure. His quest takes him across the sea to the mysterious islands of the Seal Clan. Here, Torak battles an unseen menace - and uncovers a shattering betrayal.
Download or read book The Seal Children written by Jackie Morris and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fisherman named Ewan falls in love with a selkie--half-woman, half-seal--who bears him two children before returning to her own people below the waves. Reprint.
