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"Pedaling a bicycle around the world was a lifelong dream, but everyone told him it could not be done. Dismissing the skeptics, disinterested sponsors, and a woefully inadequate bank account, Scott Zamek resolved to try. Some 20,000 miles and millions of pedal revolutions later, Zamek had encountered Bengal tigers, angry mobs, prison and sandstorms. He had run up against the Sahara and Gobi deserts, the Himalaya and the Karakoram mountains. He suffered hypothermia and heatstroke. And it was in his moments of greatest need, good Samaritans intervened to help.
"One More Horizon" takes us on a roller coaster ride of endurance and fatigue, success and setback, thieves and kind-hearted souls. But what shines through in the end, is a reminder of all that is right with the human spirit."
Vishvas Kumar, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Sports story?
- bike racing
Exploring/Searching...
- desert
Outdoors story
Yes
Exploring:
- surviving in outdoors
Sports story
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- explorer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 ()
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- The 'stans
- India
- China
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- Arabic Africa
Jungles?
Yes
Jungles
- Snakes
Desert?
Yes
Desert:
- dying of thirst, sunburn
- hostile arabs
Misc setting
- prison
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- Dry-cynical
Commentary on society?
Yes
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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