The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond

The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond Review

Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that “an adventure not in the air is obsolete,” Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet. For Halliburton, it was the ultimate in romantic, risky exploration and was a means of seeing the world in a way that few had ever seen it before. True to form, his journey was breathtakingly audacious. They performed aerobatics in Fez; landed in mysterious Timbuktu; spent time with the French Foreign Legion in Algeria; and explored Cairo, Damascus, and Petra. In India, they flew over the Taj Mahal—upside down—and, soaring over the Himalayas, Halliburton took the first aerial photograph of Everest. A journey as dazzling as Halliburton himself and, with the world at war less than a decade later, marking the end of an era, the story of The Flying Carpet is as captivating today as it was to the world 80 years ago.

Water polo a viable addition to a secondary school aquatics unit.: An article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance

Water polo a viable addition to a secondary school aquatics unit.: An article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance Review

This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 3884 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Water polo a viable addition to a secondary school aquatics unit.
Author: Angela Beale
Publication:JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 73 Issue: 6 Page: 49(6)

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The Travels of Marco Polo (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wadsworth Classics of World Literature)

The Travels of Marco Polo (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wadsworth Classics of World Literature) Review

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo's contemporaries. Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721, Polo's account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo's return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf. Alternately factual and fantastic, Polo's prose at once reveals the medieval imagination's limits, and captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exotic or the unknown.

Blue Water, Brown Water: Stories of Life in the Navy and in Vietnam

Blue Water, Brown Water: Stories of Life in the Navy and in Vietnam Review

For those men and women who served in Vietnam and are curious as to what the Navy did there. For Vietnam veteran families and friends. For the young and old who want to know more about that particularly turbulent period from 1968-71, both here at home and in Vietnam. This is a memoir that combines hundreds of stories and memories into a narrative about a young man who begins his story at the draft board in Houston, and ends it on his last day of active duty in Seattle, and all that happened in between. It captures the mood of the young people of the day, while following the maturation of a green Naval officer into a confident Vietnam veteran. Essentially a view of daily life in the Navy of 40 years ago, it is abundant in characters, places and events that challenge the imagination.

The Mathematics of Projectiles in Sport (Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series)

The Mathematics of Projectiles in Sport (Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series) Review

The mathematical theory underlying many sporting activities is of considerable interest to both applied mathematicians and sporting enthusiasts alike. Here Professor de Mestre presents a rigorous account of the techniques applied to the motion of projectiles. This equips the reader for the final section of the book in which an enlightening collection of sporting applications is considered, ranging from the high jump to frisbees and soccer to table tennis. The presentation should be accessible to most undergraduate science students and provides an ideal setting for the development of mathematical modeling techniques.

Water Polo in Spain

Water Polo in Spain Review

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Spanish water polo league is divided into divisions. The top teams play in the División de Honor. In each division, a team plays all other teams twice, once at home and once away.The Spanish league teams compete in Europe under the Ligue Européenne de Natation, most notably in the LEN Euroleague and LEN Cup, and previously in the LEN Cup Winners' Cup. The teams also compete in a domestic cup competition each year, called the Copa del Rey. The winners of the División de Honor play against the winners of the Copa del Rey in the Supercopa de España de Waterpolo (Super Cup).

Oka vet water polo national.: An article from: Wind Speaker

Oka vet water polo national.: An article from: Wind Speaker Review

This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on May 1, 1996. The length of the article is 638 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Oka vet water polo national.
Author: Christine Wong
Publication:Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: May 1, 1996
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 14 Issue: 1 Page: 16

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Advance copy of Intercollegiate swimming rules, instructions to divers and judges of fancy diving, intercollegiate water polo rules, intercollegiate water basket ball rules, 1915

Advance copy of Intercollegiate swimming rules, instructions to divers and judges of fancy diving, intercollegiate water polo rules, intercollegiate water basket ball rules, 1915 Review

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

Water Polo: A Brief History, Rules Of The Game And Instructions On How To Play

Water Polo: A Brief History, Rules Of The Game And Instructions On How To Play Review

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.