Books in Adrenaline Adventure series

This title introduces readers to the adventurous sport of surfing. Readers will discover the sport's unique, must-have equipment in the text and diagrams, from surfboards to wax, wet suits, leashes, and helmets. Important safety information is also covered, including never surfing alone, respecting right-of-way, wipeouts, rip currents, marine animals, and underwater reefs and rocks. Chapters highlight surfing history from Polynesia to Hawaii and beyond, how to choose a board, and types of surfing, including longboarding, shortboarding, and tow-in surfing. They also cover famous athletes and surfing pioneers, including Duke Kahanamoku, George Freeth, Tom Blake, Kelly Slater, and Bethany Hamilton. Important surfing organizations are also introduced, such as the Association of Surfing Professionals, the International Surfing Association, and the National Scholastic Surfing Association. Sidebars on sunscreen, getting skegged, and surfing lingo will put readers in the know. Readers can also find out how to get started in this exhilarating sport and where to find good waves, including the United States, Australia, France, and Brazil. Striking, colorful photos will put readers right in the middle of this action-packed sport. They'll have a blast getting ready for an Adrenaline Adventure. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

This title introduces readers to the adventurous sports of mountain, rock, and ice climbing. Readers will discover each sport's unique, must-have equipment, from ropes, harnesses, and anchors to proper clothing. Important safety practices are also covered. Chapters highlight climbing history, types of climbing, climbing competitions, and famous athletes, including Chris Sharma, Chris Bloch, Lisa Rands, and Tori Allen. Sidebars on the Seven Summits, the tallest mountains on each continent, and climbing lingo will put readers in the know. Readers can also find out how to get started in these exhilarating sports, including classes, specific programs, and physical requirements. And, they can learn about favorite climbing spots, such as Mt. Everest, K2, the Alps, Yosemite's El Capitan, Australia's Mount Arapiles, and even indoor climbing walls. Striking, colorful photos will put readers right in the middle of these action-packed sports. They'll have a blast getting ready for an Adrenaline Adventure! Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

This title introduces readers to the adventurous sport of dogsled racing. Readers will discover the sport's unique, must-have equipment in the text and diagrams, from dogs and sleds to ropes, booties, harnesses, axes, snowshoes, sleeping bags, and proper clothing. Important safety practices for dogs and mushers are also covered. Chapters highlight dogsledding history, types of dogsled racing, and racing rules. They also cover dog breeds, diet, and training, and famous athletes, including Martin Buser, Jeff King, Doug Swingley, Rick Swenson, Libby Riddles, and Susan Butcher. Sidebars on the Iditarod and dogsledding lingo will put readers in the know. Readers can also find out how to get started in this exhilarating sport, from finding a club to physical and mental requirements. And, they can learn about popular racing spots, including the United States, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and France. Striking, colorful photos will put readers right in the middle of this action-packed sport. They'll have a blast getting ready for an Adrenaline Adventure! Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

This title introduces readers to the adventurous sports of white-water rafting, canoeing, and kayaking. Readers will discover each sport's unique, must-have equipment in the text and diagrams, from canoes, kayaks, and rafts to life jackets, helmets, paddles, spray skirts, and bailing buckets. Important safety practices are also covered, including personal flotation devices (pfds), physical requirements, and water hazards. Chapters highlight history, river grading, paddling strokes, capsizing, and rolling. They also cover competitions, such as slalom, sprint, and downriver races, as well as famous athletes, including Dana Chladek, Michal Martikan, and Tao Berman. Sidebars on respecting the river and white-water lingo will put readers in the know. Readers can also find out how to get started in this exhilarating sport and where to find popular white-water locations such as North Carolina, Idaho, Costa Rica, Chile, and South Africa. Striking, colorful photos will put readers right in the middle of these action-packed sports. They'll have a blast getting ready for an Adrenaline Adventure! Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

This title introduces readers to the adventurous sport of skydiving. Readers will discover the sport's unique, must-have equipment, from the rig, main and reserve parachutes, pilot chutes, and harnesses to altimeters, automatic activation devices, clothing, helmets, goggles, proper clothing, and even airplanes. Important safety practices are also covered. Chapters highlight skydiving history, types of skydiving, such as tandem, static-line, and accelerated free-fall jumps, as well as skydiving competitions, such as formation skydiving, canopy formation, accuracy landing, free fall events, freestyle, and skysurfing. They also cover training, the United States Parachute Association, and how to earn a license, as well as famous athletes, including Don Kellner, Cheryl Stearns, and Holly Budge. Sidebars on the rules of packing parachutes, the kid-friendly Team Future, and skydiving lingo will put readers in the know. Readers can also find out how to get started in this exhilarating sport, from age requirements and physical and mental requirements, to where to find drop zones and indoor skydiving. Striking, colorful photos will put readers right in the middle of this action-packed sport. They'll have a blast getting ready for an Adrenaline Adventure! Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

In this anthology, editor Clint Willis gives readers some of the best sea stories of all time. Included are excerpts from R. H. Dana's classic Two Years Before the Mast, a shipwreck survivor's 74-day ordeal aboard an inflatable life raft, an eyewitness account of the Titanic disaster, a dramatic rescue at sea in a Force-12 storm, a solo circumnavigation of Antarctica, and a one-man cruise through the Roaring Forties. Rough Water delivers page after page of high adventure amid gales, swells, surges, shoals, icebergs, fog banks, sharks, and mutineers.

Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map offers first-hand accounts by the world's boldest explorers, who have encountered storms, starvation, canibals, predators, and disease in their pursuit of mystery and adventure. Nunez Cabeza de Vaca writes of his 16th century expedition to the region north of the Gulf of Mexico, an amazing tale of survival and hardship that begins with the loss of de Vaca's ships and the capture and enslavement of his party by Indians. Argentinian novelist Abel Posse gives us an unforgettable Christopher Columbus facing down mutiny and the threat of starvation Tim Flannery almost dies while searching for Fulmer's Fruit Bat, thought to have become extinct 12,000 years ago. Thor Heyderdahl recounts his earliest adventure in Polynesia. Premier mountaineering and adventure writer David Roberts searches for a legendary lost city high in the cliffs of New Mexico. Following an ancient trail, Roberts discovers a beautifully preserved Anasazi city — and a curse. Explore also includes writing by Lawrence Millman, Gene Savay, John Long, Redmond O'Hanlon, Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman, Andrea Barrett, and W.H. Murray.