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Ebook About Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, 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 planned not only to survive the 9,420-mile trip through huge, shark-infested seas, but to do it faster than the only other paddler who did it. As journalist and expert kayaker Joe Glickman details the voyage of this Teutonic force of nature, he captures interminable days on the water and nights camped out on deserted islands; hair-raising encounters with crocs and great white sharks; and the daring 300-mile open-ocean crossing that shaved three weeks off her trip. For 332 days Glickman followed Freya’s journey on her blog—along with a far-flung audience of awestruck, even lovesick, groupies—as she took on one terrifying ordeal after the next. In the end, he says, “her vanity and pigheadedness paled next to her nearly superhuman ability to master fear and persevere.”Book Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent Review :
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. 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