The Power of the Paddle
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The Power of the Paddle

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The Power of the Paddle

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The Sunday Times Bestseller'His name was Ibrahim. He was about five years old and the thing he wanted most in the world was to go to school.'In a tiny country on the Horn of Africa, extreme adventurer, former soldier and star of Channel 4's Hunted Jordan Wylie made an extraordinary promise to a remarkable young boy. Ibrahim's home Djibouti is a refuge from neighbouring war zones, playing host to children excluded from the basic privileges we take for granted in the West. So, armed with skills learned from a lifetime of adventures, Wylie vowed to raise funds to build a new school for those children.And thus began a series of exceptional challenges, seeing Wylie row solo across the pirate-infested Bab el-Mandeb Strait in a world first and run extreme marathons in ice-cold climates. To cap it off, he embarked on a journey stand-up paddleboarding around mainland Great Britain, along the way facing military firing ranges, crazy teenagers on jet-skis, psychotic jellyfish and, finally, Covid-19.This is the inspirational true story of the lengths one man went to fulfil a young boy's dream – and of the good that can be achieved even in the hardest of times.

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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2021
ISBN
9781785907265
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Treaties
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Praise
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Maps
  7. Foreword by Brendon Prince
  8. Chapter 1: Ibrahim
  9. Chapter 2: ‘I’ve Heard It All Before, Mr Wylie’
  10. Chapter 3: Kicking the Black Dog
  11. Chapter 4: Adventurer
  12. Chapter 5: The Gate of Tears
  13. Chapter 6: Brass Monkeys
  14. Chapter 7: ‘You’re Going to Do What?’
  15. Chapter 8: The Deep South
  16. Chapter 9: The Kindness of Strangers
  17. Chapter 10: The Littlehampton Lout
  18. Chapter 11: ‘Can’t You Just Patch Me Up, Doc?’
  19. Chapter 12: Surfer’s Paradise, Paddleboarder’s Hell
  20. Chapter 13: The Irish Jig
  21. Chapter 14: Busman’s Holiday
  22. Chapter 15: The Wild West
  23. Chapter 16: Nicola Says No
  24. Chapter 17: Keeping My Promise
  25. Afterword
  26. Plates
  27. About the Author
  28. Copyright