Re: Motivation Examples

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:31:23 -0800

I also liked "Into Thin Air" about the Everest climbing disaster.  There are also other books describing the events from different perspectives (I have read 4 in total now).
 
Another possibility is "Godforsaken Sea" by Derek Lundy.  This book describes the Vendee Globe race of 1996-1997 and tries to explain the appeal of this world.  This is a 6 week single handed sailing race in some of the most dangerous waters in the world. In this year, of the 16 people who started the race, 6 finished, 6 withdrew or sought help, 3 were rescued from sinking boats, and one person disappeared.   This is not an untypical result for this race.
 
Cheers.
Martha
 
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"Dr. Bob Wildblood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"My contribution to this is a book by a not famous and not spectacular
person, but that of a 50+ year old woman who one day decided to
traverse the Appalachian Trail and the story that goes with it. The
blurb from Amazon.com has the following description.

2. There Are Mountains to Climb..."
 
 
This reminds me of a book I read a long time ago. It was about a grandmother from England who decided to ride a bicycle coast to coast across the United States. She did this with a low-tech bike, with only the few things that she could pack. I still think of her whenever I drive down a long steep hill--she wrote about burning out her bike's brakes on such a descent.
 
It is possible that this is the book:
Daisy, Daisy: A Grandmother's Journey across America on a Bicycle by Christian Miller
 
Lenore Frigo
Shasta College

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