Walk of Ages
- Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America
- Indbinding:
- Hardback
- Sideantal:
- 240
- Udgivet:
- 1. februar 2015
- Størrelse:
- 140x216x0 mm.
- 8-11 hverdage.
- 16. januar 2025
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Forlænget returret til d. 31. januar 2025
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- Rabat på køb af fysiske bøger
- 1 valgfrit digitalt ugeblad
- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
- Ingen binding
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Ingen binding og kan opsiges når som helst.
- 1 valgfrit digitalt ugeblad
- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
- Ingen binding
Abonnementet koster 75 kr./md.
Ingen binding og kan opsiges når som helst.
Beskrivelse af Walk of Ages
On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days. Weston¿s first epic walk across America transcended sport. He was ¿everyman¿ in a stirring battle against the elements and exhaustion, tramping along at the pace of someone decades younger. Having long been Americäs greatest pedestrian, he was attempting the most ambitious and physically taxing walk of his career. He walked most of the way alone when the car that he hired to follow him kept breaking down, and he often had to rest without adequate food or shelter. That Weston made it is one of the truly great but forgotten sports feats of all time. Thanks in large part to his daily dispatches of his travails¿from blizzards to intense heat, rutted roads, bad shoes, and illness¿Weston¿s trek became a wonder of the ages and attracted international headlines to the sport called ¿pedestrianism.¿ Aided by long-buried archival information, colorful biographical details, and Weston¿s diary entries, Walk of Ages is more than a book about a man going for a walk. It is an epic tale of beating the odds and a penetrating look at a vanished time in America.
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