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“Freya Hoffmeister’s voyage was bold, ambitious, and reckless—like so many of the truly great adventures!” –Bear Grylls, author of Mud, Sweat, and Tears and The Kid Who Climbed Everest". . . a quick and entertaining read." --Publishers Weekly"Fearless is a compelling read about Freya Hoffmeister’s 2009 circumnavigation of Australia. Author Joe Glickman intertwines the story of a dangerous and difficult year-long adventure with an unflinching look at The Woman in Black, arguably the most accomplished and enigmatic kayaker on the planet." --Sea Kayaker Magazine "Fearless is a page-turner, benefiting from gripping language and a conversational tone in the style of contemporary adventure-lit classics like Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air, Into the Wild) and Susan Casey (The Devil’s Teeth, The Wave)." --Canoe and Kayak"For paddlers and non-paddlers alike, the book is by all means an exciting read, marked both by Hoffmeister’s tenacity as well as Glickman’s for following through with the project and its somewhat stubborn star. Throughout the book, you can feel both Glickman’s frustration with Hoffmeister’s hubris, but also his admiration for her accomplishing one of the hardest feats imaginable in paddling." --Paddling Life "Fearless is a tribute to the indomitable spirit of Freya Hoffmeister as she battled to become the first woman to circumnavigate Australia alone in a sea kayak. Ms. Hoffmeister’s accomplishment will endure and inspire not only because of the miles she paddled or her speed on the water, but because she refused to believe it couldn’t be done." -- Warren Richey, author of Without a Paddle "I’m intrigued by people who do things the rest of us think are impossible. Fearless is just such an adventure, with the added twist that the intrepid explorer is a brash and beautiful woman who has a unique view of life. Author Joe Glickman’s crisp writing puts us in the kayak with this unusual heroine on her incredibly dangerous journey. Hang on!" --Michael Tougias, author of Fatal Forecast, Overboard!, and Ten Hours Until Dawn.
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From the Back Cover
Fearless is the story of Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, who left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and unsupported around Australia—a year-long adventure that virtually every expert guaranteed would get her killed. She was determined not only to survive the 9,420-mile trip through huge, shark-infested seas, but to do it faster than the only other paddler to have completed the circuit, twenty-seven years earlier.Journalist and expert kayaker Joe Glickman follows Freya’s 332-day voyage, including the daring 350-mile open-ocean crossing that shaved three weeks off her trip. In the end, he says, “Her vanity and pigheadedness paled next to her nearly superhuman ability to master fear and persevere.”
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Product details
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Falcon Guides (January 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0762772875
ISBN-13: 978-0762772872
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
145 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,054,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Review: It is easy to admire Freya Hoffmeister. It is much more difficult to like her, or relate to her as a human being. Freya puts on a cloak of superhuman invincibility that is hard for mere mortals to penetrate. She is a super athlete, which by itself sets her apart from most of us.As a child, she excelled as a gymnast. As a young woman she won beauty contests and competed as a bodybuilder. Then she became an accomplished skydiver until she had a child. She gave up the danger of jumping out of airplanes for the more sedate sport of sea kayaking. But not content to simply paddle with the rest of us, Freya became a rolling expert, and in just three years was teaching, winning titles and giving demonstrations alongside the legendary Dubside.Speaking as a uncoordinated, somewhat clumsy guy, I find this easy to admire but hard to relate to. By itself, Freya's seemingly endless physical talent and the ease with which she conquers any sport she takes up could still make her a sympathetic figure if she showed any sense of struggle or fear in addressing the things she achieved. But she does not. Freya never acknowledges fear or struggle or heart ache. Again, admirable but hard to relate to.Not content with becoming a master of sea kayaking's most abstract skills, Freya's restless spirit cast about for new challenges to master. She settled on long distance sea kayaking trips, challenging herself to complete them faster than anyone had done them before. Her list of accomplishments in this area led her to the subject of this book, the solo, unsupported circumnavigation of Australia. It had only been done once before and that trip was supported. It almost killed the legendary Paul Caffyn in the attempt. Everyone told Freya she was crazy, that she would die in her attempt. But with her usual high level of self-confidence, she forged ahead. Among other things, Freya is a master of planning and detail. And this, combined with luck, her athletic ability and incredible self-confidence seems to have won that day.Joe Glickman seems to have had many of these same feelings as he wrote this story, drawing details from Freya's journals, web posting, conversations and interviews. It is clear he admires her as he describes the many difficulties she addressed with little or no indication of distress. It is also clear that he just can't figure her out. He can't get a grip on her humanity. This makes for a quirky book in my opinion. There is this love-hate relationship, written by an admiring skeptic about his subject. In the end, we never really get to know Freya Hoffmeister beyond the single dimension she will show us. Does she miss the child she left behind for a year to make her voyage? When she's caught out alone in terrible storms, is she afraid? When her love relationship breaks up does she hurt? We'll never really know because Freya keeps these things to herself. I see and can relate to the personal and physical struggles of Cheryl Strayed (Wild) and Warren Richey (Without a Paddle) because they shared them with me and because on some level I have experienced similar situations and feelings too. Perhaps Freya isn't ever afraid. Perhaps she has a self-confidence born of experience. Perhaps she believes in her ability to overcome all physical obstacles. And perhaps she is not sentimental about the loss of relationships. Perhaps she is the person she shows us. Perhaps. But I still do not like her much and cannot relate to the life she shows us.
I followed Freya's exploits on her blog throughout her trip. Accordingly, I didn't expect to get much out of this book. I was wrong.Most serious kayakers are familiar with Joe Glickman. He is a familiar face at major surfski races. His articles on kayaking regularly appear in print in several periodicals. In this book, he adds local color and spice to what had already been documented in Freya's blog during her trip. He is quite familiar with some of Freya's major sponsors (he skyped with major sponsor Epic Kayaks' Oscar Chalupski daily throughout the voyage). He met with Freya in (at least) Puerto Rico, Hawaii, & Australia. He interviewed Freya's sister and (now ex-) boyfriend for background information (as well as many other smaller players both in her life and those who appear in the story).This book did not disappoint. After reading this book, readers will tend to:- Fall in love with Freya the amazon goddess &/or- Revel in this extraordinary accomplishment which pushed the boundaries of what we humans are capable of &/or- Appreciate Mr. Glickman for bringing this astonishing tale to the masses
Asked for - and received - this book for Christmas...and had a hard time putting it down. I am a sea kayaker, and had read of Freya Hoffmeister's exploits in various kayaking magazines. They are all impressive achievements, for a man or a woman, but stories of Freya are especially interesting because she makes no effort to conceal her enormous ego, self-confidence, and yes, "Fearless-ness". She's also uncommonly attractive - in a Teutonic goddess sort of way - which adds to her following. This 185 page book focuses on her 332 day, 8,565 mile, solo circumnavigation of Australia. She is the first woman paddler to do this, and only the second person, having broken the record set by the legendary Paul Caffyn 25 years earlier. It is a larger-than-life accomplishment, with many opportunities to die along the way.What I liked best about the book were the passages detailing her actual time on the water, challenges she confronted and how she dealt with them, equipment issues, and the background stuff about previous attempts to paddle around Australia or exploits along the Australasian coasts. Author Glickman relied a lot upon Freya's enroute blog posts, and interviewed most of the characters involved in her successful adventure.Where I found the book tedious were the occasional vignettes about her childhood, parents, or her personal relationships/love-life. These were shallow, almost gossipy, and just didn't add to the story. My guess is that they were supposed to add some insight into Freya's psyche. I personally think that instead of trying to analyse her, you just ought to accept her as one of those rare, larger than life individuals like Shackleton, Hillary, or Alexander, who have been born with uncommon self-confidence and a reduced sense of "limits".The one thing that I wish were included would be a complete "Gear List", including every piece of equipment and her food rations for the trip. Some comments about how the gear performed, or might be improved would also be nice. All-in-all, a very good read about an incredible adventure and a remarkable woman/person.
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