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Splat!
by
Tony Davis
The cast of nontraditional sports available to the more daring participant range from the seemingly benign—the central Asian game of buzkashi, or goat-nabbing—to such apparently suicidal activities as the human trebuchet. Full of astounding facts and amazing-but-true incidents, this comprehensive guide to some of the world’s most dangerous sports explains what it's like to...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
November 1st 2009
by Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited
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An amusing and informative tour through extreme sports - that's to say, the ones where if something goes wrong, you're in the past tense.
Sports range from base jumping, freediving (the competitive sort, not the pleasant swimming around with a snorkel that is also freediving), mountain climbing (the death rate of those who attempt Everest and K2 is, alarmingly high), land speed record breaking, ski jumping and Buzkashi. Buzkashi? It's the Afghan national sport. Played with a dead goat a...more
Sports range from base jumping, freediving (the competitive sort, not the pleasant swimming around with a snorkel that is also freediving), mountain climbing (the death rate of those who attempt Everest and K2 is, alarmingly high), land speed record breaking, ski jumping and Buzkashi. Buzkashi? It's the Afghan national sport. Played with a dead goat a...more
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Tony Davis is widely blamed for LEMON! 60 HEROIC FAILURES OF MOTORING, an Australian bestseller that was published in US and UK editions – and which has been adapted into the hit book for kids, YOU MUST BE SKIDDING! He is also responsible for the eccentric literary memoir F. SCOTT, ERNEST AND ME, plus the new children’s series ROLAND WRIGHT, FUTURE KNIGHT.
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