To the Extreme - Alternative Sports, Inside and Out (Hardcover)

An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport, an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the given activity, and another by a practitioner/ athlete who writes "from the inside out." The juxtaposed essays confront questions about the essence of sport such as, What is sport?; How does it originate?; and What is its use, value, and function? This book offers a fascinating look at how twentieth and twenty-first century sport forms emerge, proliferate, and take hold in a sport-crazy world.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
Release date:	March 2003
First published:	March 2003
Editors:	Robert E Rinehart • Synthia Sydnor
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	450
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-5665-1
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General
LSN:	0-7914-5665-X
Barcode:	9780791456651

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