Without a Paddle : Racing Twelve Hundred Miles Around Florida by Sea Kayak

English

ISBN: 031263076X

EAN: 9780312630768

Category: Sports & Recreation / Kayaking/Travel / United States / South / South Atlantic (Dc, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, Sc, Va, Wv)/

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 06/30/2010

Synopsis: As far as Warren Richey knew, his life was on course. A reporter with a beautiful wife and talented son, Richey couldnt imagine how it could be any better....Then his marriage falls apart and he cant imagine how it could be any worse. The divorce leaves Richey questioning everything, while struggling to find a way forward. To get his bearings, he enters the first Ultimate Florida Challenge, an all-out twelve-hundred-mile kayak race around Florida. The UFC is less of a race than it is a dare or a threat. The thirty-day deadline sets a grueling, twenty-four-hour-a-day pace through shark- , alligator- , and even python-infested waters. But those twelve hundred miles are only a fraction of a journey that pulls Richey back to when he was embedded with troops in Iraq, reporting on missing children, and hiking the mountains of Montana with his son, and shows him where he went wrong, where he went right, and how to do it better the second time around. Warren Richeys memoir Without a Paddle is a remarkable physical and emotional journey that cuts to the heart of what it means to be a man, a husband, and a father.

Without a Paddle : Racing Twelve Hundred Miles Around Florida by Sea Kayak

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.22 inches

Width: 5.78 inches

Length: 8.54 inches

Weight: 3.53 oz

Pages: 352