The Fishing Boat: Use the Secrets of the Pros to Select and Outfit Your Boat

The trailerable fishing boat is the single largest financial investment made by anglers in pursuit of their sport. Yet, despite a cascade of claims from sellers and manufacturers of boats and boating accessories, there’s little objective information about how to choose and outfit a boat for maximum fishing efficiency, satisfaction, and safety. With full-color photos throughout, this book gives plain-spoken and reliable advice, covering topics from rod holders to live wells, outboards to trolling motors. Every boating angler will benefit from this book by increased enjoyment of time on the water—and by getting more and bigger fish aboard.

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The Coolest Race on Earth: Mud, Madmen, Glaciers, and Grannies at the Antarctica Marathon

The Coolest Race on Earth is both Hanc’s story and the story of the Antarctica Marathon, first held in 1995 and now an annual event that sells out years in advance. It’s full of humor, adventure, and inspiring characters--including a wheelchair-bound competitor, three record-breaking grandmothers, and an ex-Marine who described the race as “the hardest thing I ever did in my life, next to Vietnam.”

Muddy, cold, hilly, the race is by all accounts horrible--up and down a melting glacier twice, past curious penguins and hostile skuas, and finally to a bleak finish line. Even the best runners take longer to run the Antarctica Marathon than any other.

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Bowled over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCs Era

Former college and professional football player Oriard explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete. He gives close attention to decisions by the NCAA in the early 1970s that helped transform student-athletes into athlete-students and turned the college game into a virtual farm league for professional football. The relentless necessity to pursue revenue, he argues, undermines attempts to maintain academic standards, and it fosters a football culture in which athletes are both excessively entitled and exploited.

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Deep Drive

In 2007, Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell triumphed over a lifetime of adversity when he led the world‚'s most zealously followed baseball team to the promised land, with their second World Series title in four years. But there was much more to the story than what happened on that October night.

From his family‚'s battle to escape Cuba and the Castro regime, to the ups and downs of his baseball career, to his battle with testicular cancer, this is the story of a man who overcame every challenge thrown at him to become one of the best third basemen in baseball‚ and a true role model for his millions of fans.

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