Swiftwater Rescue

Published by Lifesaving Society, Montreal, 1998

ISBN 10: 2921611139 (ISBN 13: 9782921611138)

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Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, CanadaWagon Tongue Books

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If you are an enthusiast of EXTREME water sports, these 124 pages will be of interest. (Last 5 pages are blank for notes.) Three chapter headings for flavour are : `Rapid Classification', `Anchors', and `Use of the Rescue Bag'. The first version was `made in Quebec'. Simple B/W drawings illustrate every point made in the text. Learn about pins, swimming out of a hydraulic, Prusik Knots, shivering and shock as symptoms, wraps and pour-overs.( Class III Rapid - Difficult, with large holes, requires the ability to maneuver a boat in rapids. Waves can attain one metre. The flow may . ) Cond : Paper wrapper is a colour photo of someone dumped out of a boat in fast whitewater. Lettering is red. Corners sli. soft but coil tight. Bright, clean and giftable. No names nor marks. Neither tears nor stains. Quote (p. 41) : " Looking out in front, time your breathing with the rythm of the waves, absorb any contact using your feet and buttocks. Stay alert and take advantage of the smallest calm to . ." Size: 12mo. …

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Bibliographic details

Title
Swiftwater Rescue
Author
Mannion, Sean (translator)
Publisher
Lifesaving Society, Montreal
Publication year
1998
Condition
VG++
Binding
Coil Bound
Illustrator
B/W Diagrams
Edition
First (English).
Seller catalogs
Nature, Sports

Wagon Tongue Books

Linden, AB, Canada

2-star seller

AbeBooks seller since November 4, 1999

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I am a small home-based business so I may be difficult to reach by phone. I'm in the Mountain time zone. I've been passionate about books for approximately 30 years. Thank you for thinking Wagon Tongue.

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western canadiana, ephemera & rarities, horse and horse-related, cowboy stuff, indians and North American first peoples, things that catch my eye - including (non)books, mere bagatelles

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