Adventureman

Author: Jamie McDonald
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers LTD
ISBN: 178685094X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
At the age of nine, Jamie's family feared he would never walk again.Twenty years later, he set off to run 5,000 miles coast to coast across Canada.When Jamie decides to repay the hospitals that saved his life as a child, he embarks on the biggest challenge of his life: running the equivalent of 200 marathons back-to-back, solo and unsupported, in –40 degree weather, surviving all kinds of injuries and traumas on the road and wearing through 13 pairs of trainers. And he does it all dressed as the superhero, the Flash.Though his journey was both mentally and physically exhausting, it was the astounding acts of kindness and hospitality he encountered along the way that kept him going. Whether they gave him a bed for the night, food for the journey, a donation to his charity or companionship and encouragement during the long days of running, Jamie soon came to realise that every person who helped him towards his goal was a superhero too.

Wild at Heart

Author: John Eldredge
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1400200393
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
In all your boyhood dreams of growing up, did you dream of being a "nice guy"? Eldredge believes that every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is how he bears the image of God; that is what God made him to be.

A Thing of Beauty

Author: Peter Fiennes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 086154062X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 ‘Peter Fiennes’s road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described’ Mary Beard, TLS ‘Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece’ Observer What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what’s the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what’s to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes – stunning and spoiled – on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the ‘most beautiful beach in Greece’, consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land.

Adventureman, Volume 1: the End and Everything After

Author: Matt Fraction
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781534317123
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
WHERE HIS STORY ENDED... HER STORY BEGINS! Everyoneknows the story of how ADVENTUREMAN, the greatest pulp hero of ended in aheartbreaking CLIFFHANGER with our hero facing execution an the eve of theMACABRAPOCALYPSE... now learn the startling truth about how, eighty years afterhis seeming demise, single mother Claire and her Adventurefan son Tommy seem tospark his RESURRECTION! Can these inheritors of the Adventureman legacy rise upto face down the evil that bested the original?

Becoming Bavarian

Author: Tim Howe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Is it true that Germans...Are afraid of drinking tap water? Cycle in the nude at the weekend? And do have a sense of humour, after all? Tim Howe should know. He'd always dreamed about all things German. But never of becoming one. Until Brexit. Suddenly the race is on to bond with the burghers of Bavaria. Laugh as Tim bears the brunt of a beer-fuelled human pyramid, sees more than he should in the sauna, and attempts to smash the world cymbal-bashing record at his local Oktoberfest. As the race unfolds, one thing's clear -anyone desperate enough to become Bavarian is going to need a thick skin. And a strong bladder....

Where Divers Dare

Author: Randall Peffer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698168968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-550 off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In return the sub was driven to the surface with depth charges, and then sent to the bottom of the ocean by three destroyer escorts that were guarding the naval convoy. For more than sixty years the location of the U-boat’s wreck eluded divers. In 2012, a team found it—the last undiscovered U-boat in dive-able waters off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, more than three hundred feet below the surface. This is the story of their twenty-year quest to find this "Holy Grail" of deep-sea diving and their tenacious efforts to dive on this treacherous wreck—and of the stunning clash at sea that sealed its doom and brought the Battle of the Atlantic to America’s doorstep.

The American Adam

Author: R. W. B. Lewis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226476810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The first really original book on the classical period in American writing that has appeared for a long time.

Uncanny X-Men

Author:
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9780785129998
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Colossus tries to come to terms with his heartache over Kitty Pryde, Angel and the Beast meet a hero everyone thought was inactive, the media learns about the Alaskan Massacre, and Emma Frost's history is revealed.

Uncanny X-Men

Author:
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9780785165941
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As Cyclops struggles to create a safe haven for mutants on Utopia, Magneto arrives and offers to join the X-men.

Adventureman, Volume 2: A Fairy Tale of New York

Author: Matt Fraction
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781534322141
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD? For ClaireConnell, it meant becoming the inheritor of the legacy of legendary pulp herothe Adventureman. Now Claire's learning that to fight Adventureman's fightsmeans she's the one who must fight Adventureman's foes, past AND present... Collects ADVENTUREMAN #5-9