Near the Borderline: Coming of age (and then some) on the northern frontier - Paperback

by David Inglehart (Author)

Sport biography meets psychological mystery in this revealing memoir about the early days of hang-gliding and a brother's uncharted illness. An aspiring aviator introduces ski-flying at a mountain resort in Maine and goes on to compete in the first world hang-gliding championships in the Austrian Alps. After and extended gliding tour of the western states, he returns east to spend a dark winter of the soul in an isolated cabin in the Thousand Islands, where a troubled family history eventually catches up with him.