Full name: Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously

Author: Bill McKibben Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780452282704 9781605291246 0452282705 1605291242

The bestselling author of The End of Nature presents a provocative, unconventional book, now in paperback. Approaching middle age and never much of an athlete, McKibben trains to be a world-class skier and learns some unexpected lessons about his body, and life. Similar books: On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Happy, Happy, Happy by Phil Robertson Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Gifted Hands by Ben Carson The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman Lucky by Alice Sebold A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper Grateful American by Gary Sinise