Long Distance
Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
$33.17
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2018
Summary
A new edition of a classic book about what it takes to be a world-class athlete and where the true meaning of endurance can be found.
At 37, the celebrated writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben took a break from the life of the mind to put himself to the ultimate test: devoting a year to train as a competitive cross-country skier. Consulting with personal trainers, coaches, and doctors at the US Olympic Center, he followed the rigorous training regimen of a world-class athlete.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781605291246 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1605291242 |
| Author: | Bill McKibben |
| Publisher: | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |
| Imprint: | Rodale Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes often for Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global-warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.” He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.
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