One Breath

Author: Adam Skolnick

Stock information

General Fields

Price : $32.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780670079193
Publisher : Penguin Books Australia
Imprint : Viking Australia
Contained items :
Weight (g) : 0.444
Publication date : September 2015
Dimensions : 235mm X 153mm X 26mm
Produced in : Australia
RRP : 32.99
Availability date : January 2016
Out of print date :
Agency :
Product Type : books

Special Fields

color :
size :
Author : Adam Skolnick
Series :
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Illustrator :
Language :
Dewey classification : 797.232092
Reading Level :
Library of Con LOCSH :
Pages : 336
BIC subject :
Illustrations :
Colour :
Session :
Deck :
Store Notes :
Translator :
Signed :

9780670079193

Description

Freediving is one of the most captivating, fastest growing and least understood sports in the world. Competitors push their physical boundaries to the limit, cheating death in exotic locations. It is highly dangerous, but also, for its many devotees, a way of life. For Nicholas Mevoli it was pure obsession, one that saw him rise from novice to record-holder in little more than a year - and that tragically claimed his life after competing in the Vertical Blue event at Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. One Breath is a riveting account of Mevoli's death, the mysterious world of freediving and its extraordinary athletes. Award-winning journalist Adam Skolnick tells a fascinating story filled with quirky characters, evocative history, unsolved mysteries of science, and extreme determination. Travelling to some of the most beautiful places on earth, he sheds light on what fuels athletes to take a single breath and make it last as long, and take them as deep, as humanly possible.

Author description

Adam Skolnick has written about travel, culture, health, human rights, sports, and the environment for the New York Times, Outside, ESPN.com, BBC.com, Salon.com, Men's Health, Wired, and Travel + Leisure, among others. As an international journalist, he has visited 45 countries and authored or co-authored 25 Lonely Planet guidebooks. His coverage of Nicholas Mevoli's death at Vertical Blue earned two APSE awards.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.