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The Pants Of Perspective: One woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand (Anna's Adventures) - Softcover
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★★★★★ "A thrilling coming of age journey that'll make you yearn for adventure" - RUNNER'S WORLD
★★★★★ "Beaming with limitless positivity and ambition" - WOMEN'S RUNNING
★★★★★ ”A story that inspires others to blaze a trail." - THE GUARDIAN
★★★★★ "Travel writing at its best!"
★★★★★ "Hilarious and inspiring."
★★★★★ "So down to earth. Full of passion and vulnerability"
★★★★★ "Wow. Wow. Wow. Pure inspiration."
★★★★★ "I don't normally feel moved to review books, but this one blew me away! I was gripped from begining to end."
★★★★★ "I felt like I was running right alongside her."
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"When I ran, I ran for pleasure. I didn’t run for times, to win, to impress: I ran for me. When I ran my bum cheeks rubbed together, so much so that if I was going on a long run I’d have to ‘lube up’. I maintained that I was not a ‘real’ runner – I just liked to run so that I could eat cake."
Anna was never anything like those ‘real’ runners on telly – all spindly limbs, tiny shorts and split times – but when she read about New Zealand’s 3,000-kilometre-long Te Araroa Trail, she began to wonder… perhaps being a ‘real’ runner was overrated.
Maybe she could just run it anyway?
Travelling alone through New Zealand’s backcountry for 148 days, she scrambled through forests, along ridge-lines, over mountain passes, along beaches and across swollen rivers. Running up to 52 kilometres in a day, she slept wild most nights, and was taken into the homes and hearts of the kiwi people in between.
The Pants of Perspective is a witty, colourful and at times painfully raw account of a journey to the edge of what a woman believes herself to be capable of. It is a coming-of-age story which will lead you on a roller coaster ride through fear, vulnerability courage and failure. For anyone who has ever dreamt of taking on a great challenge, but felt too afraid to begin – this story is for you.
♥ The books in the 'Anna's Adventures' series can be read in any order ♥
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About the Author
'One of the 50 most influential travellers in the world' CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER MAGAZINE
Anna is an endurance athlete, adventurer and self confessed mischief maker. Once upon a time she represented Great Britain at rowing, but after ‘retiring’ in her mid twenties, she began darting around the world on the hunt for new and exciting endurance challenges. Named by The Guardian as one of the top female adventurers of our time, Condé Nast Traveller also recently included her in a list of the 50 most influential travellers in the world. She also also the UK ambassador for Girl Guiding.
On a mission to find the limit of her own potential, she aims to help others unlock theirs too.
ANNA'S ADVENTURES TO DATE
In 2013 Anna cycled a beautiful Pink bicycle 11,000 miles through each and every state of the USA, from Alaska to Hawaii. Pedalling up to 130 miles a day for 6 months, solo and unsupported, she encountered blizzards, floods and temperatures as low at minus 15C.
In January 2015, with no previous experience as a long distance runner, Anna set out on a 2,000 mile run along New Zealand’s Te Araroa trail. Travelling alone for 148 days, she moved through forests, along ridge-lines, over mountain passes, along beaches and across swollen rivers. Running up to 32 miles in a day, she carried all of her belongings in a backpack that was often as heavy at 20kgs. By June 2015 she had become the first person, male or female, to run then length of the country entirely unsupported.
In October 2016, Anna began a journey to cycle along the spine of the largest mountain range in the world: The Andes. By the time she returned to the UK in April 2017 she had pedalled through some of South America’s most remote and inhospitable regions, and ascended over 100,000 metres on a bike – more than 11 times the height of Everest.
Much closer to home, she has also spent a month cycling across Europe directed entirely by social media. As you do.
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- PublisherRocket 88
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 199976580X
- ISBN 13 9781999765804
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages438
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