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Walk of Ages - Jim Reisler

Walk of Ages

Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2015
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9014-3 (ISBN)
CHF 46,90 inkl. MwSt
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 America’s 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.

Jim Reisler is the author of eight baseball books, most notably Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend, and is the editor of Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball.

Prologue: “The Breathing Embodiment of Iron Will”    
1. “Worried about the Outcome of This One”    
2. “I Fancied I Was a Great Actor”     
3. “Pride and Pluck Had Prevailed”     
4. “Undeterred, Undismayed, No Matter What Confronts Him”     
5. “I Will Not Alter My Mode of Travel!”     
6. “The People Treat Me Finely”     
7. “A Trifle Older Than I Was Twenty-Five Years Ago”     
8. “Walking Is the Easiest Part”     
9. “Make a Good Record First and Meet Me After”     
10. “Some Command of the Situation”     
11. “Shut Up, You Jumping Jack!”     
12. “That Awful Strain”     
Epilogue: “I've Taken My Last Walk”    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    

Zusatzinfo 8 photographs, 1 map
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Reiseführer Nord- / Mittelamerika USA
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8032-9014-4 / 0803290144
ISBN-13 978-0-8032-9014-3 / 9780803290143
Zustand Neuware
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