Böcker av Jim Reisler

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.

Presents interviews with 15 extraordinary oral deaf role models from diverse backgrounds and professions. Wall Street banker Ralph Marra, paralegal Kristin Buehl, 1984 Olympic gold medallist Jeff Float, and engineer George Oberlander are just some of those who share their experience and stories.

C C Pyle made several fortunes by representing professional football and tennis players before quickly losing everything and disappearing into history's dustbin. This work reevaluates Pyle's fast life and times while analyzing his extraordinary and enduring legacy.