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The Age of Daredevils
Engelsk Paperback
The Age of Daredevils
Engelsk Paperback

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a small but determined band of barrel jumpers risked their lives in one of the world’s most wondrous waterfalls. Only a few survived.

By turns a family drama and an action-adventure story, The Age of Daredevils chronicles the lives of the men and women who devoted themselves to the extraordinary sport of jumping over Niagara Falls in a barrel—a death-defying gamble that proved a powerful temptation to a hardy few.

Internationally known in the 1920s and ‘30s for their barrel-jumping exploits, the Hills were a father-son team of daredevils who also rescued dozens of misguided thrill seekers and accident victims who followed them into the river. The publicity surrounding the Hills’ spectacular feats ushered in tourism, making Niagara Falls the nation’s foremost honeymoon destination, but ultimately set Red Hill Jr. on a perilous path to surpass his father’s extraordinary leaps into the void.

Like the works of Jon Krakauer and David McCullough, The Age of Daredevils explores the primal force of fear and the thirst for adventure that drive humans to the brink of death to see if they can somehow escape.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781503935419
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1503935418
Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2016
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
Amazon Publishing
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2016
Forfatter(e):
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