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Bowhunting Equipment & Skills: Learn From the Experts at Bowhunter Magazine (The Complete Hunter)
The surest way for you to succeed as a bowhunter is to get the help and advice of an experienced archer. There are no better experts than those folks at "Bowhunter Magazine".

Learn what to look for when buying a bow, arrows, broadheads, arrow rest, mechanical release, bowsight and quiver. Find out how to make your setup ready for hunting. Also, you'll need to learn the proper stance, release and follow through for shooting compounds, recurves and longbows. And, if you want to hit your target consistently, the section on adjusting your sights and estimating range will be especially helpful.

This book has hundreds of easy-to-understand illustrations and photographs that take the guesswork out of achieving true arrow flight. Make it your guide to making well-placed shots on a bullseye or the buck of a lifetime.

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Price: $12.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent Into the World's Most Treacherous Cave
A harrowing, subterranean Into Thin Air, BEYOND THE DEEP is the perilous odyssey of the cavers who explored the Mt. Everest of the undergroundthe Huautla.The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant. With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San Augustin. The first camp settled 2,328 feet below ground in a cavern where headlamps couldnt even illuminate the walls and ceiling. The second camp teeter-ed precariously above an underground canyon where two subterranean rivers collided. But beyond that lay the unknown territorya flooded corridor that had blocked all previous comers, claimed a divers life, and drove the rest of the team back. Except for William Stone and Barbara am Ende, who forged on for 18 more days, with no hope of rescue, to set the record for the deepest cave dive in the Western Hemisphere..
Price: $35.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Spelunking with Ray Bradbury: the Allegory of the Cave in Fahrenheit 451.(Critical Essay): An article from: Extrapolation
This digital document is an article from Extrapolation, published by Extrapolation on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 4816 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Spelunking with Ray Bradbury: the Allegory of the Cave in Fahrenheit 451.(Critical Essay)
Author: George E. Connor
Publication:Extrapolation (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Extrapolation
Volume: 45 Issue: 4 Page: 408(11)

Article Type: Critical Essay

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Atlas of the Great Caves of the World
Atlas of the Great Caves of the World is an almanac, encyclopedia, and book of records all under one cover. It is an invaluable reference book for cave explorers and cave enthusiasts of all levels.

Contained in its 376 pages are:
Descriptions of over 2,000 caves from all over the world. 540 in America, 310 in Asia, 950 in Europe, 190 in Africa, and 169 others.
Maps of 200 caves that are either more than 700m deep or over 30km long or of special interest.
Caves and maps are listed for 118 countries, arranged in descending order of depth and length within that country.
Special section on deep pits with profiles of pits over 300m deep.
World's Longest Caves List.
World's Deepest Caves List.
Chronology of World Depth Record.
Record Cave Dives.
Longest Cave Chambers.
Non-limestone Caves.
Complete index of all caves..
Price: $74.97 [Notify me when price goes down.]



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