Over the Edge: A Regular Guy's Odyssey in Extreme Sports

Bane, Michael

ISBN 10: 0028604261 / ISBN 13: 9780028604268

Published by Macmillan, New York, 1996

About this Item

viii, 246pp, appendix, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. An account of the author's exploration of the world of extreme sports. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 027032

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Over the Edge: A Regular Guy's Odyssey in Extreme Sports
• Publisher: Macmillan, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0028604261
• ISBN 13: 9780028604268
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Sport Inc. Hunting, Fishing & Games

About this title

Synopsis

Over the Edge: A Regular Guy's Odyssey in Extreme Sports is the compelling record of Bane's adventures pushing himself to the limit - by participating in some of the world's most dangerous athletic pursuits. Traveling across the country and around the globe, Bane literally risked life and limb to attack thirteen death-defying sports on his "List."
From a marathon in the hellish temperatures of Death Valley to whitewater rafting in Honduras, kayaking off a waterfall in New Zealand, diving in Florida's pristine underwater caves, bicycling through the mountains of Colorado at speeds 45 miles per hour, and swimming in shark-infested waters in the first leg of the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon, Bane's journey captures all of the exhilaration, excitement, and fear that have accompanied one man on his journey to the edge and back.

Review

Everyone makes lists, but the baker's dozen of personal challenges that Michael Bane came up with to test the breaking points of body and soul are literally breathtaking. The adventures he exuberantly narrates are the extreme of the extreme, like swimming from Alcatraz Island, running through Death Valley, bicycling the Rocky Mountains, and climbing Mt. Denali. Along the route of his audacious odyssey, he meets his share of fascinating fellow extremists, one of whom describes the author as a kind of "George Plimpton from Hell," an apt depiction, to be sure, of man intent on journeying to a daringly engaging version of hell and back.