Go for the Gold

Hoyt, Garry

Nautical Pub.Co.

<p>Go for the Gold is no ordinary textbook on sailboat racing. If you spend most of your time worrying about intricate equipment and sophisticated tactics, this may be just the book you need to get you out of that swamp. Mr. Hoyt, World Sunfish Class Champion in 1970, tells you how you - not your boat - can make the difference in winning sailboat races. This book, the author writes, was "conceived in audacity and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created beatable...Go for the Gold is an attempt to jostle you into the realization that winning or placing better is, as much as anything, a state of mind, an attitude. This winning attitude is neither as simple as the power of positive thinking nor as complex as you have probably come to fear. My modest aim is to try to help you pull your game together, to home-in on those areas where just a small improvement will yield big yards, and places at the finish." You will likely find more straight talk in this book than in any other sailing book you have ever read. Mr. Hoyt makes his points in a wonderfully readable style, handsomely illustrated with his own pen-and-ink drawings.</p>

Go for the gold;: Somebody has to lose ... but why you?

Quadrangle Books

<p>Very clean book and dust jacket. Blue boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. 104 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, one very short closed edge tear at base of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.</p>

Ready About!

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Intl Marine Pub Co

Set in the 1960's, this is the story of a compelling attraction between a divorced American Ex-Marine and a Puerto Rican woman of unusual beauty. From bare fisted, bawdy house brawls, to racially tinged sailing escapades in the Virgin Islands, to passionate encounters in Old San Juan, Brad Fichton pursues the scintillating but elusive Mercedes Cordova. While following the twists and turns of this intense love affair, the plot delves incisively into the complex world of Island politics, providing rare insights into the deep seated, emotional ambivalence Puerto Ricans feel over their relationship with the United States. The reader will come away with the pleasure of a rousing tale, plus a new understanding of the simmering nationalism and divided loyalties that fuel the current unrest on this detached and little understood part of America. Cosmetically classified as "The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico"--the island remains essentially an American colony, torn between strong economic dependence on the U.S. and equally strong longings for its own identity. How the main characters struggle to make sense and find love in this tangled, political web makes for an interesting read that will instruct as well as entertain.

Isla Verde

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Newport R&D

Set in the 1960's this is the story of a compelling attraction between a divorced American Ex-marine and a Puerto Rican woman of unusual beauty. From bare fisted, bawdy house brawls, to racially tinged sailing escapades in the Virgin Islands, to passionate encounters in Old San Juan, Brad Fichton pursues the scintillating but elusive Mercedes Cordova. While followng the twists and turns of this intense love affair, the plot delves incisively into the complex world of Island politics, providing rare insights into the deep seated, emotional ambivalence Puerto Ricans feel over their relationship with the United States. The reader will come away with the pleasure of a rousing tale, plus a new understanding of the simmering nationalism and divided loyalties that fuel the current unrest on this detached and little understood part of America. Cosmetically classified as "The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico"--the island remains essentially an American colony, torn between strong economic dependence on the U.S. and equally strong longings for its own identity. How the main characters struggle to make sense and find love in this tangled, ploitical web makes for an interesting read that will instruct as well as entertain.

Isla Verde: Adventure, Romance, & Political Intrigue in Puerto Rico

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Ambientada en los años 1960, esta es la historia de una irresistible atracción entre un divorciado ex Marine estadounidense y una mujer puertorriqueña de belleza inusual. Desde peleas a puños limpios en un burdel, a aventuras de navegación racialmente matizadas en las Islas Vírgenes, a encuentros apasionados en Viejo San Juan, Brad Fichton lucha por la vivaz pero evasiva Mercedes Córdova. Mientras sigue las vueltas y los giros de esta intensa aventura amorosa, la trama se profundiza mordazmente en el complejo mundo de la política de la Isla, proporcionando raras perspicacias de la firmemente arraigada ambivalencia emocional que sienten los puertorriqueño por su relación con los Estados Unidos. El lector terminará con el placer de un relato emocionante, además de un nuevo entendimiento del boyante nacionalismo y las lealtades divididas que encienden el actual conflicto en esta separada y poco entendida parte de América. Cosméticamente clasificada como "El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico"--la isla continua siendo esencialmente una colonia americana, dividida entre fuerte dependencia económica de los Estados Unidos y equitativamente fuerte anhelo por su propia identidad. La manera en la que el personaje principal lucha por dar sentido y encontrar amor en esta enredada red política hace esta una narración interesante que instruirá tanto como entretendrá.

Isla Verde: Aventura, Romance e Intriga Política en Puerto Rico (Spanish Edition)

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