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The World at My Feet: The Extraordinary Story of the Record-Breaking Fastest Run Around the Earth
Tom Denniss
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Description for The World at My Feet: The Extraordinary Story of the Record-Breaking Fastest Run Around the Earth
Paperback. The Extraordinary Story of the Record-Breaking Fastest Run Around the Earth BIC Classification: BG. .
In 2013, Tom Denniss became the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot. His epic journey lasted nearly two years, and for each of the 622 days it took him to run around the planet, Tom completed the equivalent of a marathon or more. Based on distance alone his feat was an extraordinary act of endurance, but along the way Tom also survived a near-death experience on an ice cliff as he was running over the top of the Andes, was chased by dogs, snakes and suspicious border police, narrowly avoided lethal cars and buses, suffered in sixty-degree heat ... Read more
In 2013, Tom Denniss became the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot. His epic journey lasted nearly two years, and for each of the 622 days it took him to run around the planet, Tom completed the equivalent of a marathon or more. Based on distance alone his feat was an extraordinary act of endurance, but along the way Tom also survived a near-death experience on an ice cliff as he was running over the top of the Andes, was chased by dogs, snakes and suspicious border police, narrowly avoided lethal cars and buses, suffered in sixty-degree heat ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
ALLEN & UNWIN
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
St Leonards, Australia
ISBN
9781760112097
SKU
V9781760112097
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Tom Denniss
Tom Denniss works for Oceanlinx, a company he founded in 1997. The company has developed a technology to convert the energy in ocean waves into electricity. The technology has recently reached cost-competitiveness with other forms of renewable energy, and the company's first fully commercial wave energy plant is expected to be operating by late 2013. Tom Denniss ... Read more
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With a chatty, engaging writing style, this high achiever relives his mega journey.
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