Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #695395 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Review
"A good book for anyone who has ever failed or felt clumsy about using their body. It's enough to make you want to go out and run a mile for the sheer joy of it."
--"The Baltimore Sun"
"For George Leonard, the lovers' quarrel between mind and body was a major error in Western thought. We are discovering that our bodies are models of the environment, even the world. The discredited human animal is heard to roar once more."
"--The New York Times"
"The Ultimate Athlete does a good deal of clean, amply researched thinking on the body and the games we've made it play. It's a high, lyrical, free-spirited book, a sort of Chagall painting in prose that transmits the author's abiding love for physical activity free of the mean motivations: blood and competition."
--"Playboy"