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Still Sideways - Riding the Edge Again after Losing My Sight (Hardcover)
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Still Sideways - Riding the Edge Again after Losing My Sight (Hardcover)
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Before a surfing accident caused thirty-three-year-old Devon Raney
to lose all but 15 percent of his vision, he had already lived an
extraordinary life. Time and again he’d gone against the grain to
maximize time for his passions—surfing, skateboarding, and
snowboarding—bringing him into the direct path of colorful
characters, unexpected adventures, and even the occasional brush
with death. Through it all, Devon’s commitment to outdoor
adventure never wavered. If anything, he learned to approach the
other commitments he would make in life—as a husband and as a
father—with the same passion and dedication he’d applied to
board sports. So when facing a devastating mid-life challenge,
Devon once again went against the grain -- sideways. Instead of
retreating into a life made smaller by the things he could no
longer do—drive, build houses, read to his young daughter—Devon
resolved to keep his commitments to the same passions that had
defined and sustained him. Using his remaining peripheral vision,
he developed a style of tandem snowboarding, figured out how to
read the waves, and carried himself through his daily life in such
a way that few people other than his close friends and family were
aware of his vision loss. Still Sideways makes the case for
the sustaining power of nature for a new generation of outdoor
enthusiasts: the late Gen X / early millennial generation that has
one foot firmly in adulthood and the other foot buckled into a
binding. Readers will relate to Devon’s stubborn refusal to
organize his life around convention and will be inspired by how his
dogged devotion to shredding brings him salvation, not comeuppance,
when it all hits the fan. A must-read for any mid-life adventurer,
Still Sideways intersperses a gripping narrative of Devon’s
incredible decade and flashbacks of formative experiences from his
youth and young adulthood with humor, candor, and authenticity.
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