Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Monday, November 03, 2014

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Current Read: First Pass Under Heaven


Official website at http://www.greatwalldvd.com/

The Great Wall of China is the largest man-made structure ever built, stretching for over 4,000 kilometres from central Asia, across the Gobi Desert, through the remote, cold mountains of northern China to end on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Gray, a young New Zealand lawyer, wanted to be one of the first Westerners in history to walk and document the entire length of the Great Wall...


Monday, September 21, 2009

Current Read: The Man Who Swam The Amazon

I was scanning the shelf for something to occupy my time on the bus to work everyday when I came upon this RED little book!!! The title sure caught my attention...

The MAN in the book is Martin Strel...4 Cuinness World Records on Ultra-long distance swimming....Mississipi, Yangze,Danube,Nile and in 2007....THE AMAZON filled with pirates,anacondas,piranhas and crocodiles......

The official website is at www.amazonswim.com....a movie is even released about his amazon journey...titled TheBigRiverMan

Sundance 2009 with Martin

Amazing guy...amazing story...I am not even 20% of the book and the journey is getting very crazy

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Completed: BORN TO RUN

From InSaNe T@z

Amazing stories.....one of its kind on the shelf...not your usual running stories or running books....a must read

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Monday, October 27, 2008

Chinese Total Immersion book......

Saw this TI swimming book in a Taipei bookshop...

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Looking at the row of chinese names at the bottom of the cover...for those who do not know how to read chinese..the first name on the left is the President of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou...Wow..they even get him to endorsed TI swimming......

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