- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Firefly Books (Oct 2 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 155297992X
- ISBN-13: 978-1552979921
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 23.2 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#211,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #20 in Books > Sports > Extreme Sports
- See Complete Table of Contents
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Product Description
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–If the words "extreme sports" bring to mind only the basics like skateboarding and snowboarding, think again. Here, sports range all the way to "mega-extreme" sports such as sky flying, caving, and free-diving. The book is divided into categories of air, land, and water, each of which profiles a variety of sports from the everyday to the almost totally unfamiliar. Each entry ranges from 2 to 10 pages and recounts the history of the sport as well as some of the greats who have competed. When appropriate, hints are given for how to participate locally. But this book isn't a "How to" as much as a "How can it be?" In many of the entries, the basic physics of the sport are briefly explained–how a bungee cord works, for example, or why innovations such as lighter metals helped advance biking sports. Rather than this brief text, however, it's the action photography that's the book's real attraction. Each spread has multiple full-color photographs. Reluctant readers will be drawn in by the pictures and teachers can also find classroom connections for the physics, invention, and engineering that keep these sports ever extreme.–Jamie Watson, Harford County Public Library, MD
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
Vivid pictures and affectionate essays... in living-large color. (Aline McKenzie Dallas Morning News 20041023)
Teens needing an adrenaline amp will open this book and be buzzed by the wide array of dazzling color photographs. (Rolie Welch VOYA )
The dreamer in all of us... an exhilarating introduction and description of the wildest and sometimes oddest sports out there. (Menz )
It's the action photography that's the book's real attraction. Each spread has multiple full-color photographs. (Jamie Watson School Library Journal )
Enthusiastic... it's the big, full-color photos that will draw readers to this title... a good bet for reluctant readers. (Paula Rohrlick KLIATT )
Teens needing an adrenaline amp will open this book and be buzzed by the wide array of dazzling color photographs. (Rolie Welch VOYA )
The dreamer in all of us... an exhilarating introduction and description of the wildest and sometimes oddest sports out there. (Menz )
It's the action photography that's the book's real attraction. Each spread has multiple full-color photographs. (Jamie Watson School Library Journal )
Enthusiastic... it's the big, full-color photos that will draw readers to this title... a good bet for reluctant readers. (Paula Rohrlick KLIATT )
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this is good for understanding overall extreme sports., Sep 5 2005
By Hee Yun Cha - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Extreme Sports: In Search of the Ultimate Thrill (Paperback)
very helpful&informative to me. To understand the overall extreme sports,this is recommendable. good photos, early history and pioneer and good events for each sports,,,etc
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