Alan Corcoran

Unsinkable

Cancer, Five Boats, and my 710-Kilometre Sea Swim

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Produktbeschreibung

FROM THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of MARATHON MAN "BEST INDIE BOOKS OF 2023"Kirkus Reviews (awarded Starred Review)LoveReading (awarded Star Book) UNSINKABLE is an inspirational, humorous, and heart-wrenching tale of persevering after facing life's most difficult realities. Weeks after a joy-filled footballing trip around France, joined by family and friends, Alan Corcoran learned his dad, Milo, had stage four cancer. Just days later, Milo died. Grief-stricken, twenty-five-year-old Alan decided to raise money for charity by attempting a 500-kilometre length-of-Ireland sea swim (fifteen times the distance of the English Channel) from the Giant's Causeway on the north coast to County Waterford on the south coast. Corcoran takes to the pool and prepares in solitude. Eight months later, he dives into the coldest deep end to begin his open-water swimming adventure. Will he sink or swim...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tivoli Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781838365042
• ISBN-10: 1838365044
• Artikelnr.: 68175302

Autorenporträt

Alan Corcoran is a charity fundraising Irish adventure athlete. Competing as an Irish international track and field athlete as a juvenile, he switched to ultra-endurance at the age of twenty, when his dad, Milo, suffered a stroke. Alan has since fundraised ¿45,000 for stroke and cancer charities through his resilience challenges. He became the first to run a lap of Ireland - 35 marathons in 35 consecutive days - and the first to swim the length of Ireland - a 500-kilometre sea swim. Corcoran has written a multi-award-winning book ('Marathon Man') and directed a feature-length documentary film ('Unsinkable') about these two challenges.