PEOPLE WHO SWEAT: MY MIDDLE-AGED ADVENTURES AMONG TREE CLIMBERS, MALL WALKERS, SURFING HOUSEWIVES, AND OTHER UNLIKELY ATHLETES
by Chotzinoff, Robin
- Used
- as new
- first
- Condition
- As new
- ISBN 10
- 0156011700
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011709
- Seller
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Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Synopsis
From weekend warriors to the professional arena, we are a nation obsessed with sports. But what makes an ordinary person an athlete? Is it skill, or simply devotion? To find out, Robin Chotzinoff hit the road in search of people who sweat. Consider the triathalon runner known as "Little Fat Boy," he is world-famous because of his size and his consistency: he's always dead last. Or one political snowboarding champion who founded a snowboard camp for girls only. And many more inspiring "athletes": mall walkers and tree climbers and gym teachers, cancer patients and people who exercise to fill their "God-shaped void." And Robin Chotzinoff herself, after years of "terminal physical mediocrity," finds that it is possible to be athletic without being a good athlete. In the course of her travels she discovers what these people have known all along: that giving your body a chance to exult-whether by hanging ten with geriatric surfers or straining to finish an ultramarathon-is what sport is all about.
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- Bookseller
- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51338
- Title
- PEOPLE WHO SWEAT: MY MIDDLE-AGED ADVENTURES AMONG TREE CLIMBERS, MALL WALKERS, SURFING HOUSEWIVES, AND OTHER UNLIKELY ATHLETES
- Author
- Chotzinoff, Robin
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0156011700
- ISBN 13
- 9780156011709
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- San Diego, Ca
- Date Published
- 1999
Terms of Sale
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
About the Seller
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
About Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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