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Extreme Sports
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Fan-tastic Sporting Stories: 300 True Tales of Fans Who Stole the LimelightSpecial Price €6.99 Regular Price €16.99
With its weird and wild tales of fan participation, Fan-tastic Sporting Stories! is essential reading for fans of any and every sport. Whatever your team, whatever your game, you won't help but find this collection absolutely fan-tastic!
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Mountain of the Dead : The Dyatlov Pass Incident€11.50
In January 1959, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. While one of the skiers fell ill and returned., the remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl (or `Mountain of the Dead').
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Everest Calling: The Irish Journey (Hardback)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €19.99
'Important story to be told... must-have on the bookshelf of mountaineers and non-mountaineers alike.' Irish Mountain Log
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Official MotoGP Season Review 2012Special Price €9.99 Regular Price €39.99
Edited by TV commentator Julian Ryder, this book includes expert contributions on the technical side as well as expert photography.
All 18 races of the season are covered in detail, the supporting categories are also included, and clearly presented statistics provide a comprehensive reference source for the future. Now firmly established in its ninth year of publication, this will be welcomed by all Moto GP fans.
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Into The Silence : The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest€22.99
The Crowning of Everest. 'The price of life is death' For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'.
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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster€12.99
One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley. Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.
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Born to Run : The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seenSpecial Price €9.99 Regular Price €12.99
At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals.
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Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains€14.55
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.