"When the elements are against you, there's no place to hide.You're sailing along smoothly, the salt air in your lungs, the spray on your face, when suddenly the sea becomes an unfriendly host and you are at its mercy.From the pages of Motor Boating & Sailing magazine comes an enthralling anthology of twenty-four true sea stories that will set your pulse racing. Collected for the first time are some of the acclaimed magazine's most rive ..."
"As long as human beings have inhabited the Earth, there have been individuals willing to risk their lives in order to discover and explore the unknown. Following in this great tradition, astronauts continue to push ever farther, into the frontier of space.The U.S. Space Camp Book of Astronauts highlights some of the outstanding men and women of space:Alan Shepard, Heil Armstrong, and other legends of the spacerace yearsSkylab commander ..."
"An exciting photo essay, the first in a U.S. Space Camp series, shows the development of rockets, visiting Rocket Park and Space Museum in Alabama, boarding the space shuttle, visiting a replica of a space station, and more."
Home in the Tall Marsh Grass(1st Edition) by RoyAttaway Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 1993 by Lyons Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55821-254-1, ISBN: 1-55821-254-X
""We were like those little plastic dogs with magnets glued to their bottoms, my father and I," writes Roy Attaway in this evocative memoir set in the rich Lowcountry of South Carolina. "We were deeply attracted to each other (he was extraordinarily affectionate) from many angles, but face to face we always seemed to repel, sometimes with a nearly ugly vehemence." A Home in the Tall Marsh Grass - the title is from an old Gullah spiritua ..."
Space Camp(1st Edition) by RoyAttaway, Anne Baird Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 1992 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-688-10227-2, ISBN: 0-688-10227-1
"Foreword by U.S. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Introduction by Edward O. Buckbee, Founder, U.S. Space Camp. This photo essay follows a group of budding astronauts through their week-long training program at the world-famous U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. Young readers get a close-up look at what it's like to blast off in a rocket, float in space, fly a shuttle mission, and much more. "A perfect introduction."--Alan B. Shepard, ..."
"Each type of marine power, either engine-driven or wind-driven, affects how a
boat rests on the bed of a trailer. The most common type of power found in
boating is supplied by an outboard motor, which is bolted onto the back of the
boat's ..."