Long Distance: Texting the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously - Softcover

McKibben, Bill

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9780452282704: Long Distance: Texting the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously

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ISBN 10: 0452282705 ISBN 13: 9780452282704

Publisher: Plume, 2001

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The best-selling author of The End of Nature shares his observations on training to become a world-class skier as a man approaching middle age. Reprint.

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Jon Krakauer author of "Into Thin Air" Bill McKibben has written a wry, wise, thought-provoking book about what it takes -- and what it means -- to endure for the long haul. It's an extended meditation on athleticism, primarily, but it's also a wonderful paean to winter, and dying with dignity, and -- perhaps above all -- leading the examined life.

About the Author:

BILL MCKIBBEN is a former staff writer for THE NEW YORKER whose work has also appeared in OUTSIDE, ROLLING STONE, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, IIARPER'S, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY and many other publications.

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