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L'autre Annapurna
Par Maurice Herzog. 1998
Lanny
Par Steve Simmons, Lanny McDonald. 1987
Fascinés par les grands raids automobiles du début du siècle, Dominique Lapierre et Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, tous deux reporters à Paris…
Match, arrachent l'autorisation de parcourir l'Union soviétique de Khrouchtchev en voiture, accompagnés de leurs femmes. À bord d'un break Simca bicolore "Marly", les quatre jeunes Français vont vivre treize mille kilomètres d'aventures. De la Pologne à l'Oural, de la Biélorussie au Caucase, des clochers du Kremlin aux palais des tsars sur les bords de la mer Noire, ils découvrent des lieux mythiques et des paysages de rêve et, surtout, ils font la connaissance des Russes. Au fil de leurs rencontres, se pose une question obsédante: comment le régime soviétique a-t-il réussi à persuader un peuple privé de liberté qu'il était le plus heureux de la terre? 2005.Lance Armstrong: a biography
Par Bill Gutman. 2003
The story of Lance Armstrong, the premier cyclist in sports history, from his first ride to his most recent race,…
and all the twists and turns in between. Grades 3-6. 2003.Journalist chronicles living in cyclist Lance Armstrong's training camp in Spain for months before Armstrong's sixth Tour de France win…
in 2004. Describes the intense physical schedule and managerial skills employed to orchestrate a victory in biking's major sporting event. Strong language. Bestseller. 2005.Labels: a Mediterranean journal
Par Evelyn Waugh. 1991
Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already…
"fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan merchants - as he cruises around the Mediterranean his pen cuts through the local colour to give an entertaining portrait of the Englishman abroad. 1991.Gridiron genius: a master class in winning championships and building dynasties in the NFL
Par Bill Belichick, Michael Lombardi. 2018
Former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi reveals what makes football organizations tick at the championship…
level. From personnel to practice to game-day decisions that win titles, Lombardi shares what he learned working with coaching legends Bill Walsh of the 49ers, Al Davis of the Raiders, and Bill Belichick of the Patriots, among others, during his three decades in football. 2018.Belichick: the making of the greatest football coach of all time
Par Ian O'Connor. 2018
Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL-the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises…
in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the team to five Super Bowl championship trophies. In this revelatory new and robust biography, readers will come to understand and see Belichick's full life in football, from watching Naval Academy games as a kid with his player-scout father, to masterminding two Super Bowl-winning game plans as defensive coordinator for the Giants, to his dramatic leap to the Patriots where he has made history. 2018.Bobbie Rosenfeld: the Olympian who could do everything
Par Anne Dublin. 2004
Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld was born in the Ukraine in 1903 or 1904, and immigrated with her Jewish family to Canada…
in 1905. She became a star player in ice hockey, basketball, and softball and excelled in tennis and track and field, leading the Canadian women's relay team to an Olympic gold medal and winning a silver one in the 100-meter event in 1928. By greeting obstacles with courage, hard work, and humour, and always putting the team ahead of herself, Bobbie set an example as a true athletic hero. Includes a time line, source notes, and a bibliography. Grades 3-6. 2004.Breaking the ice: the Black experience in professional hockey
Par Cecil Harris. 2003
Presents the unique stories of black hockey players - how they overcame or succumbed to racial and cultural prejudices while…
attempting to excel at one of North America's favourite sports. Covers players including Jarome Iginla, Anson Carter, Grant Fuhr and Donald Brashear. 2003.Barefoot runner: the life of marathon champion Abebe Bikila
Par Paul Rambali. 2006
Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the marathon in 1960 and again…
in 1964 - the first person to win the most gruelling of all human contests twice. Born into bitter poverty in rural Ethiopia in 1932, at sixteen Bikila joined the Imperial Guard. He came to the notice of the Swedish athletics coach Onni Niskanen, whom Emperor Selassie had engaged to try and raise his country's profile through sport. Bikila became the focus of these ambitions - and an unwitting figurehead for black African nationalism. 2006.Kurt Thomas on gymnastics
Par Kurt Thomas, Kent Hannon. 1980
Relates how Kurt Thomas, who is considered the United States' finest gymnast, came to win a gold medal in the…
1978 world gymnastic championships. Also explains the basics of this sport including judging and international competition. c1980.Kurt: forcing the edge
Par Kurt Browning, Neil Stevens. 1991
The celebrated Canadian skater and World Champion from Alberta tells about his life from the day he first stepped on…
the ice at the age of six with dreams of playing hockey, to his early bid for the Olympic Gold in 1992. 1991.King of the world: Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero
Par David Remnick. 1998
Remnick discusses the myth and reality surrounding Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay. The author portrays the 1960s, compares…
Ali to other boxers of his time, and shows how this rebel grew as a man through his search for a belief and a cause. An epilogue discusses Ali's later life. 1998.Killer: my life in hockey
Par Doug Gilmour. 2017
Doug Gilmour didn’t look fearsome on a pair of skates - being an “undersized” forward would plague him during his…
early career - but few players matched his killer instincts in the faceoff circle or in front of the net. The Hockey Hall of Famer from Kingston, Ontario, played for seven teams over his twenty-year career, netting 450 goals and 964 assists during the regular season and another 188 points in the playoffs, making him one of the highest-scoring centres of all time. Gilmour played a big role in the 1989 Stanley Cup victory, scoring the winning goal for the Calgary Flames. Perhaps most famously, he led the Toronto Maple Leafs to multiple winning seasons and in 1993, took them to the brink of their first Stanley Cup final in decades, only to lose out on one of the most controversial calls in hockey history. Bestseller. 2017.Ken Tyrrell: the authorised biography
Par Maurice Hamilton. 2002
Ken Tyrrell was one of the most respected figures in Formula 1 for nearly four decades. This biography provides an…
expose of the man himself, and an insight into the drama and excitement of the world of Formula 1 motor racing. 2002.Keane: the autobiography
Par Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy. 2002
J.P. Bickell: the life, the Leafs, and the legacy
Par Jason Wilson, Kevin Shea, Graham MacLachlan. 2017
A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P.…
Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As one of the most important industrialists in Canadian history, Bickell left his mark on communities across the nation. He was a cornerstone of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which awards the J.P. Bickell Memorial Award in his honour to recognize outstanding service to the organization. He was also a giant of Canadian industry, and one of C.D. Howe's WWII-era "dollar-a-year" men leading war efforts on the home front. Though he avoided public attention for much of his life, his story is tied up not only with the Maple Leafs, but with some of the most famous Canadians of his day, including Mitchell Hepburn, Roy Thomson, and Conn Smythe. Through his charitable foundation, he has been a key benefactor of Sick Kids Hospital, and his legacy continues to transform the city of Toronto. Yet, though Bickell was so important both to Toronto and the Maple Leafs, the story of his incredible life is today largely obscure. 2017.Journeying: travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus
Par Nikos Kazantzakis, Themi Vasils, Theodora Vasils. 1975
Posthumous account of the novelist's visits to foreign lands in 1926, including interviews with Mussolini and the Greek poet Cavafy.…
Passion, struggle, and spirit are the themes in this travelogue. 1975. Uniform title: Taxideuontas.Journey home (Travel Literature Ser.)
Par John Hillaby. 1983
The author and his wife set out from Ravenglass, a place "that gives the impression it fell asleep on a…
bed of shingle centuries ago" and end their journey on Hampstead Heath. Tapping an inexhaustible seam of natural history, archaeology and folklore, John Hillaby blends his allusions to the past with topical commonplace things to create a unique mixture. 1983.