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Adventureman: Anyone Can Be a Superhero
Jamie McDonald
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Description for Adventureman: Anyone Can Be a Superhero
Paperback. Jamie embarks on the biggest challenge of his life: running 5,000 miles across Canada, solo and unsupported, through -40 degree weather, surviving injuries and wearing through 13 pairs of trainers. And he does it all dressed as the superhero, the Flash, when he realises that everyone who helps him towards his goal is a superhero too. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BTP; WSKC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
At the age of nine, Jamie's family feared he would never walk again. Twenty years later, he set off to run 5,000 miles coast to coast across Canada. When Jamie decides to repay the hospitals that saved his life as a child, he embarks on the biggest challenge of his life: running the equivalent of 200 marathons back-to-back, solo and unsupported, in -40 degree weather, surviving all kinds of injuries and traumas on the road and wearing through 13 pairs of trainers. And he does it all dressed as the ... Read more
At the age of nine, Jamie's family feared he would never walk again. Twenty years later, he set off to run 5,000 miles coast to coast across Canada. When Jamie decides to repay the hospitals that saved his life as a child, he embarks on the biggest challenge of his life: running the equivalent of 200 marathons back-to-back, solo and unsupported, in -40 degree weather, surviving all kinds of injuries and traumas on the road and wearing through 13 pairs of trainers. And he does it all dressed as the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Summersdale Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chichester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849539692
SKU
V9781849539692
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Jamie McDonald
Jamie McDonald is a world-record-holding adventurer, author, motivational speaker and founder of Superhero Foundation. He was the first person in history to run the 5,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast without the aid of a support crew, raising more than GBP250,000 for sick children in Canada and the UK. He lives in Gloucester, and was voted one ... Read more
Reviews for Adventureman: Anyone Can Be a Superhero
Jamie McDonald proves that the ordinary can be extraordinary. Adventureman is an uplifting story of grit and stick-to-it-iveness that both superheroes and everyday heroes will find fascinating.
Dean Karnazes, ultramarathoner and NY Times bestselling author I laughed. I cried. I absolutely loved reading about Jamie's journey
just incredible. It's not just his 5,000-mile Canadian run, but also, more profoundly, ... Read more
Dean Karnazes, ultramarathoner and NY Times bestselling author I laughed. I cried. I absolutely loved reading about Jamie's journey
just incredible. It's not just his 5,000-mile Canadian run, but also, more profoundly, ... Read more