Jim Doilney, Rick Barrow

Broschiertes Buch

Riding the Scalpel

Beschreibung

"Riding the Scalpel" is the incredible 20-year saga of a globe-trotting adventure-traveler who rode for his life. Jim Doilney was a PhD in economics and university professor when he kicked academia away and moved to a small mountain town in Utah. Within a few years he had a successful resort business and made a promise to himself to make time every year for long treks "...to places nobody goes, to meet people nobody knows." From the beaches of Mexico to the coasts of Australia, from frigid Patagonia to steamy Cuba, from magical New Zealand to Kathmandu, from Alaska to Scotland, from Cape Town to Spain, from Hawaii to the Himalayas, from the Panama Canal to the mountains of Spain, he hiked and biked---until tragedy struck. Facing a fatal diagnosis of prostate cancer, he weighed the only treatments offered---radical surgery, chemo or radiation, along with the brutal life-changing after-effects---and rejected them all. '"Butcher me, bake me or burn me", he called them, and vowed to find the alternate path. Twenty years later, he has lived to write this journal. Not just to relate his adventures, but to tell the thousands of aging men who every year face death from prostate cancer that there is another way. He is still trekking.

Autor

For over 40 years, Jim Doilney has been crossing the globe on foot or on his bike, traveling to places nobody goes, meeting people nobody knows. His travel mantra is "minimal plan, minimal gear equals maximum surprise and maximum experience." A PhD in Economics, former university professor, successful retailer, homebuilder and city councilman, he lives, plays and works in Park City, Utah. He wrote these stories of his off-path journeys to complement the one continuing story he tells here---his quest to conquer prostate cancer. Using the same techniques of exploring off-path, he worked with a far-flung team team of doctors to find solutions not found in most medical journals and best practices. All the years he battled his cancer, he defiantly continued to travel to distant places. Today, at age 74, he is one of the fittest seniors you will meet. Still wandering across deserts and mountains, and still on a mission to change the way thousands of men can better face and manage the odds of a terrifying cancer and the destructive treatments they are typically offered. Jim once built a million-dollar sun calendar in his town plaza, because no one had built one for centuries, and no one thought he could . You can see it today in Park City. And if you hike the trails or ski the mountains of Park City, you will still see Jim. Rick and Jim have been great friends since their college days as summertime cooks in a beach town. Rick is a former journalist, political consultant and White House speechwriter, but spent most of his career creating award-winning ad campaigns to underwrite his passion for playing polo all over the world. After years of living in Washington, New York and Miami, he resides today with his artist wife at their bed & breakfast on the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, NC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781737634508
• ISBN-10: 1737634503
• Artikelnr.: 63003179