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  Pocket Guide to Matching the Hatch

  Peter Lapsley

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  This compact, little pocket book – the first ever to feature the natural insect next to its matching artificial fly – arms the angler with all the information he needs to select the right fly from his flybox.
  • Superb photographs of aquatic insects (larvae, pupae, adults)
  
    with the artificial flies positioned alongside them
  
  • Times of hatching   
  
  • The geographical distribution
  
  • Whether it is a river fly or a lake fly, or both
  
  • Life cycles of the insects
  
  • Clues from the river and from the trout's behaviour
  Peter Lapsley contributes regularly to Flyfishing & Flytying and is author of several fishing books. He is a qualified national game angling instructor.
  Dr Cyril Bennett is one of the UK's leading entomologists, specialising in river insects. His photographs of insects – some never before captured on camera – add a unique element to this book.

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  Mostly Mischief - Including the...

  H.W. Tilman

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  'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one's last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.'
  Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman covering almost 25,000 miles in both Arctic and Antarctic waters.
  The first sees the pilot cutter Mischief retracing the steps of Elizabethan explorer John Davis to the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage. Tilman and a companion land on the north coast and make the hazardous crossing of Bylot Island while the remainder of the crew make the eventful passage to the southern shore to recover the climbing party. Back in England, Tilman refuses to accept the condemnation of Mischief's surveyor, undertaking costly repairs before heading back to sea for a first encounter with the East Greenland ice.
  Between June 1964 and September 1965, Tilman is at sea almost without a break. Two eventful voyages to East Greenland in Mischief provide the entertaining bookends to his account of the five-month voyage in the Southern Ocean as skipper of the schooner Patanela. Tilman had been hand-picked by the expedition leader as the navigator best able to land a team of Australian and New Zealand climbers and scientists on Heard Island, a tiny volcanic speck in the Furious Fifties devoid of safe anchorages and capped by an unclimbed glaciated peak. In a separate account of this successful voyage, Colin Putt describes the expedition as unique—the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level.

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  Cap in Hand - How Salary Caps...

  Bruce Dowbiggin

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  Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a fraud … an exhibition masquerading as a contest.” Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of teams in MLB to protect parity, a free market was capable of sustaining many more franchises — hundreds, even — if we would just allow it to sort out the level at which those cities might best compete.
   
  Cap in Hand goes a step further, arguing that a free market in sports teams and athletes once existed and could work again if the monopolists of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL would simply relent from salary-restraint schemes and reserve-clause models that result in elite talent being spread as thinly as possible and mediocrity being rewarded via amateur drafts and equalization payments.
   
  In fact, the model for this exists and may be the most wildly popular and monetarily successful of all professional sports: European football.
   
  Cap In Hand asks: what if the four major North American pro sports move beyond the restrictive covenants of the franchise model? The product sold to fans today is a pale copy of what it might be if the market could guide the best players to the best teams, whose ingenuity and innovation would inspire everyone to do better and put on a better show.

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  Endure by Alex Hutchinson - Book...

  FlashBooks, Dean Bokhari

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  "Endure" by Alex Hutchinson : Book SummaryNOTE—THIS IS AN AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY OF THE FOLLOWING BOOK:Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performanceby Alex HutchinsonABOUT:Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by journalist Alex Hutchinson is a book about the physiological and psychological factors that impact our performance… How high or far or fast can human beings go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person’s limits? What defines your limits? This book answers these questions and much, much more.Here’s what you’ll learn about in this summary:- You’ll discover how your mind and body work together- You’ll learn about what might be limiting your current performance—and what to do about it- You’ll find out how to retrain your brain to help you break beyond your limitations and bust through whatever physical or psychological barriers that may currently be holding you back in life.- And much, much more...

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  Primal Endurance - Escape...

  Mark Sisson, Brad Kearns

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  Primal Endurance shakes up the status quo and challenges the overly stressful, ineffective conventional approach to endurance training. While marathons and triathlons are wildly popular and bring much gratification and camaraderie to the participants, the majority of athletes are continually tired and carry too much body fat respective to the time they devote to training. The prevailing “chronic cardio” approach promotes carbohydrate dependency, overly stressful lifestyle patterns, and ultimately burnout. 
  Primal Endurance applies an all-encompassing approach that includes primal-aligned eating enhance fat metabolism, building an aerobic base with comfortably paced workouts, strategically introducing high intensity strength and sprint workouts, emphasizing rest, recovery, and an annual periodization, and finally cultivating an intuitive approach to training instead of the usual robotic approach of fixed weekly workout schedules. When you “go Primal” as an endurance athlete, you can expect to enjoy these and other benefits in short order:Easily reduce excess body fat and keep it off permanently, even with reduced trainingReprogram your genes to burn fat and spare glycogen for breakthroughs in endurance performanceAvoid overtraining, burnout, illness, and injury by improving stress-rest balance in training and lifeTrain fewer hours and get better with periodized and purposeful inclusion of high intensity workoutsHave more fun, be more spontaneous, and break free from the pull of the obsessive/compulsive, Type-A endurance mindsetHave more energy and better focus during daily life instead of suffering from the “active couch potato syndrome,” with cumulative fatigue from incessant heavy training that makes you lazy and sluggish 
  Primal Endurance is about slowing down, balancing out, chilling out, having more fun with your endurance pursuits!

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  Kook - What Surfing Taught Me...

  Peter Heller

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  With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The Whale Warriors, recounts his remarkable journey of discovery-of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean's beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture; of love; and, most of all, of how to seek adventure while crafting a meaningful life.Having resolved to master a big-hollow wave-that is, to go from kook (surfese for beginner) to shredder-in a single year, Heller travels from Southern California down the coast of Mexico in the company of his girlfriend and the eccentric surfers they meet. Exuberant and fearless, Heller explores the technique and science of surfing the secrets of its culture, and the environmental ravages to the stunning coastline he visits.As Heller plumbs the working of his own heart and finds joy in both love and surfing, he affords listeners vivid insight into this fascinating world, with all of its perils and pleasures, its absurdity and wonder. Exhilarating, entertaining, and moving, Kook is a love story between a man and his surfboard, a man and his girlfriend, a not-so-old man and the sea.

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