This is the story of how a skinny little kid from Kenilworth in Cape Town managed to travel halfway around the world without sponsorship, and then outwit, outsmart and outperform the world’s best-paid professional athletes on a day that changed his life, and the sport of big-wave surfing, forever ... Big-wave surfer Chris Bertish was the first South African to brave the monster waves of Mavericks, winning the Mavericks Big Wave Invitational surfing event in the biggest and heaviest waves ever recorded in the history of the sport. That same year, he finished third on the Big Wave World Tour, despite only surfing three of the five events. Chris’s mantra is Dream it, See it, Believe it, Achieve it. With his infectious enthusiasm, Chris tells how he pulled off death-defying antics, time and again, overcame overwhelming obstacles and manoeuvred around the many random twists of fate to achieve his goals and fulfil his dreams.

JOURNEY AFAR... with 20-year-old surfer, explorer, and writer ALEX GOULD in the Adventure of a Lifetime--covering 66,000 kilometers in 8 months of non-stop adrenaline. Dance to furious drumbeats in isolated West African coastal villages, venture to beautiful and remote desert islands in the South Pacific, and explore Buddhist temples and some of the world's most stunning mountain scenery in East Asia. Step into a new pair of shoes and reexamine your own culture with the clairvoyance only an outsider can possess. Feel the rush of life on the edge in harrowing accounts of mountaineering, motorcycling, diving, and surfing; lose yourself amidst tales of beauty, romance, and adventure. Go on: wax your board, paddle out, and FEEL THE STOKE. From Senegal's picture-perfect reef breaks to Tahiti's terrifying Teahupo'o, the planet's most dangerous wave...from tube-riding in Southern Taiwan to nose-riding with those infamous longboarders in the North... Life just doesn't get any better than this.

This collection of poetry was compiled in the hope that womyn of all ages might enjoy various topics found in the life of Everywomyn. This is truly a collection meant to be savored as it is highly relatable to the female condition in today’s society, advanced yet still full of the constraints and angst womyn have faced for centuries prior; love, loss, parenting, political oppression, abuse, and use by men in their lives, romance, love gone awry. This book covers this broad spectrum of life.

STOKED A Going The Distance Novella The second, compelling chapter in the Going the Distance series. A novella of 100 pages. He never believed in love at first sight until he fell --. At the beginning of the summer, former Olympic hopeful Tyler Smith was knocked off his feet by Jess Donovan. Smart, beautiful, courageous --and dirt poor --she awakened his desire to be someone better than he is. The two found a rare and rich connection, but in a moment of bad judgment, Tyler nearly broke it all to pieces, forcing Jess to make a decision that would take her far away from him --and maybe build a brilliant new life for herself. Now he has a second chance to win her love --. When Tyler is handed an unexpected opportunity to earn her respect, and maybe his own, he's ready to give it everything he's got. Can he shed his demons and become the man she deserves? More urgently, can he do it in time? Because there might be another guy who would like to be Jess's one and only --and that guy hasn't spent a lifetime sabotaging everything good in his life. This novella is the second episode in Jess and Tyler's story. Read about how they met in RANDOM.

If you want the fire of God to burn in your soul, this book is for you! Stoked: Firing Up Your Passion for God uses powerful illustrations from Scripture, personal insights, and stories from some of the most "stoked" Christians in history to draw readers closer to the heart of God. But beware. If you take its principles to heart, there's no way to avoid being set aflame by the all-consuming love of God.

I am in a place of excellence, peace, and earthiness, wrote the young American in his journal, with an unbelievable knowledge of clay. That place was a heavily wooded mountain valley on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan. The date was August 1975. And the 22-year-old with bright eyes and an easy smile was Richard Bresnahan, a small-town boy from eastern North Dakota.