A Race For Madmen
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A Race For Madmen
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Author : Chris Sidwells
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010
A Race For Madmen written by Chris Sidwells and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Sports & Recreation categories.
No sporting event has had its past and present, its highs and lows so intricately entwined with those of a country like the Tour has with France.
Voyage For Madmen
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Author : Peter Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Release Date : 2011-05
Voyage For Madmen written by Peter Nichols and has been published by Profile Books(GB) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05 with Single-handed sailing categories.
Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th AnniversaryIt lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech, extreme sailors of today, a mere forty years later. It was not the sea or the weather that determined the nature of their voyages but the men they were, and they were as different from one another as Scott from Amundsen. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair, sublimity, madness and even death.
A Race For Madmen
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Author : Chris Sidwells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
A Race For Madmen written by Chris Sidwells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Tour de France (Bicycle race) categories.
Mad Men Carousel
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Author : Matt Zoller Seitz
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Mad Men Carousel written by Matt Zoller Seitz and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s celebrated Mad Men recaps—as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog—for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the show’s first three seasons. Seitz’s writing digs deep into the show’s themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. The complete series—all seven seasons and ninety-two episodes—is covered. Each episode review also includes brief explanations of locations, events, consumer products, and scientific advancements that are important to the characters, such as P.J. Clarke’s restaurant and the old Penn Station; the inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox machine, and the Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the Beatles’ Revolver and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds; and all the wars, protests, assassinations, and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic decade. Mad Men Carousel is named after an iconic moment from the show’s first-season finale, “The Wheel,â€? wherein Don delivers an unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector that’s centered on the idea of nostalgia: “the pain from an old wound.â€? This book will soothe the most ardent Mad Men fan’s nostalgia for the show. New viewers, who will want to binge-watch their way through one of the most popular TV shows in recent memory, will discover a spoiler-friendly companion to one of the most multilayered and mercurial TV shows of all time. It's the perfect gift for Mad Men fans and obsessives. Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: The Oliver Stone Experience, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.
City Of Saints And Madmen
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Author : Jeff VanderMeer
language : en
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date : 2007-12-18
City Of Saints And Madmen written by Jeff VanderMeer and has been published by Spectra this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited–an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading–and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.… By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can lose–and find–yourself again. From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Race Too Far
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Author : Chris Eakin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-04-02
A Race Too Far written by Chris Eakin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The true story of the tragic round-the-world yacht race - now the subject of The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race–an incredible test of endurance never before attempted–a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop. This remarkable challenge inspired those daring to enter–with or without sailing experience. A Race Too Far is the story of how the race unfolded, and how it became a tragedy for many involved. Of the nine sailors who started the race, four realised the madness of the undertaking and pulled out within weeks. The remaining five each have their own remarkable story. Chay Blyth, fresh from rowing the Atlantic with John Ridgway, had no sailing experience but managed to sail round the Cape of Good Hope before retiring. Nigel Tetley sank while in the lead with 1,100 nautical miles to go, surviving but dying in tragic circumstances two years later. Donald Crowhurst began showing signs of mental illness and tried to fake a round the world voyage. His boat was discovered adrift in an apparent suicide, but his body was never found. Bernard Moitessier abandoned the race and carried on to Tahiti, where he settled and fathered a child despite having a wife and family in Paris. Robin Knox-Johnston was the only one to complete the race. Chris Eakin recreates the drama of the epic race, talking to all those touched by the Golden Globe: the survivors, the widows and the children of those who died. It is a book that both evokes the primary wonder of the adventure itself and reflects on what it has come to mean to both those involved and the rest of us in the forty years since.
The Tour De France
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Author : Chris Sidwells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-05
The Tour De France written by Chris Sidwells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with categories.
A Race For Madmen A History Of The Tour De France
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Author : Chris Sidwells
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-06-09
A Race For Madmen A History Of The Tour De France written by Chris Sidwells and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
No sporting event has had its past and present, its highs and lows so intricately entwined with those of a country like the Tour has with France.
Mad Men Mad World
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Author : Lauren M. E. Goodlad
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-11
Mad Men Mad World written by Lauren M. E. Goodlad and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of perspectives, including fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format, as well as through theoretical frames such as critical race theory, gender, queer theory, global studies, and psychoanalysis. In the introduction, the editors explore the show's popularity; its controversial representations of race, class, and gender; its powerful influence on aesthetics and style; and its unique use of period historicism and advertising as a way of speaking to our neoliberal moment. Mad Men, Mad World also includes an interview with Phil Abraham, an award-winning Mad Men director and cinematographer. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that understanding Mad Men means engaging the show not only as a reflection of the 1960s but also as a commentary on the present day. Contributors. Michael Bérubé, Alexander Doty, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jim Hansen, Dianne Harris, Lynne Joyrich, Lilya Kaganovsky, Clarence Lang, Caroline Levine, Kent Ono, Dana Polan, Leslie Reagan, Mabel Rosenheck, Robert A. Rushing, Irene Small, Michael Szalay, Jeremy Varon
A World Of My Own
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Author : Robin Knox-Johnston
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-05-29
A World Of My Own written by Robin Knox-Johnston and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-29 with Sports & Recreation categories.
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered and brown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudder head, came romping joyously back to Falmouth to a fantastic reception for Robin, who had become the first man to sail round the world non-stop single-handed. By every standard it was an incredible adventure, perhaps the last great uncomputerised journey left to man. Every hazard, every temptation to abandon the astounding voyage came Robin's way, from polluted water tanks, smashed cabin top and collapsed boom to lost self-steering gear and sheered off tiller, and all before the tiny ketch had fought her way to Cape Horn, the point of no return, the fearsome test of any seaman's nerve and determination. A World of My Own is Robin's gripping, uninhibited, moving account of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time. An instant bestseller, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers to be enthralled and inspired.