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Breathtaking

by Paula Holmes-Eber, Lorenz Eber

As a young girl, trapped in bed with a life-threatening disease, Paula Eber dreamed of adventuring across the globe, visiting exotic places far beyond the suffocating walls of her bedroom. Thirty years later, now an anthropology professor, cyclist and mother of two young girls, Paula runs into a quirky ad that sets in motion a very unconventional idea. Why not bicycle around the world with her family? Traveling slowly on a bicycle and camping along the way, the family could meet the local people, intimately experiencing the culture, history and geography of the world. Plus, the journey could support an important cause. Each kilometer they pedaled would raise money for asthma, the disease that had almost killed Paula as a child. And by cycling, they would choose a sustainable form of travel, making the world a better place to breathe.Two years later, supported by six major outdoor sponsors and World Bike for Breath, , Paula, her husband, Lorenz, and their two daughters—eleven year old Yvonne and thirteen year old Anya—set off with two tandems, two tents, six panniers and one stuffed elephant. Their audacious plan: to pedal 15,000 kilometers across Europe, through Asia, Australia and the South Pacific and across North America in an unbroken, continuous circle around the globe. As they cycle, the Ebers do indeed plunge deeply into the local culture. They become guests of honor of an Italian cycling team; cook dinner with a Mongolian family over a dung fire in their yurt; participate in an ancient tea ceremony at a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan and are treated as honored guests at the Dayton rodeo in the U.S.However, as the family struggles with increasing hardships and danger, both parents and children are forced to grow and change both individually and together. Facing a 100 degree heat wave in Italy, a snowstorm at the Great Wall in China, an earthquake in Taiwan, and a tornado in North Dakota, the family is forced to work together—each dependent on the skills of the other, no matter how young. Dealing with drug smugglers and corrupt border guards in Russia, a bite by a poisonous molokau in Tonga and a broken foot in New Zealand, Paula and Lorenz learn hard leadership and decision-making lessons as parents. Yvonne and Anya come face to face with poverty and global inequities as they camp on the lawn of a Lithuanian man whose home has no heat or insulation. And weaving throughout the story is Paula's own personal challenge: overcoming her asthma as she struggles to breathe while cycling over high altitude mountains in the Alps and Rockies and battling pollution filled air in Asia.On August 28, 2004, the Ebers finished their 14,931 kilometer journey in Washington D.C. They raised $65,000 to combat a disease that kills more than 250,000 children and adults around the world every year. The family spoke about clean air and asthma to over 150 newspapers, magazines and TV stations across the globe, including features in Time for Kids and NPR, and PBS's Road Trip Nation. They are the only family on record to complete a full circumnavigation of the world by bicycle.

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Author Biography

Paula Holmes-Eber, Ph.D. is the author of six books and more than 50 magazine articles, chapters and poems (see select list of publications). A frequent contributor to Adventure Cyclist and the League of American Bicyclists Magazine, Paula has published over twenty articles on cycling and adventuring as a family. She is director of Bike for Breath a business with a social purpose: to inspire people to travel by bicycle, promoting clean air and a healthy environment so that all of us can breathe. She is also the president of Squeaky Wheels, a non-profit bicycle organization, where she collaborates with state and local organizations to promote cycling. In her professional life, Paula is an anthropology professor at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Lorenz Eber, P.E. is an aeronautical test engineer who currently works at Amazon. In addition to his passion for cycling, he is a private pilot, a sailor, and a photographer. His photographs have appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Time Magazine and on the cover of Adventure Cyclist. His photographs have won the People's Choice Award at the Seattle Bike Expo as well as several other contests. For the past five summers, Anya Eber has led hiking and biking trips through Europe for the outdoor adventure company, Backroads. She is currently working on her doctorate in Criminology at the University of Oxford in England. Her thesis focuses on protecting art and archaeological treasures from illicit trafficking around the world. Yvonne Eber worked for two years as a maternal-infant care nurse for Nurse Family Partnership in impoverished Clark county, WA, where she assisted low income and homeless pregnant women and mothers. She recently began her Doctorate in Nursing at OHSU where she will be studying pediatrics and global health.

Review

"Breathtaking is a riveting combination of adventure, travelogue, and family saga. It's great reading for armchair travelers as well as those who love to adventure themselves. It's especially inspiring for parents who want to travel with their kids but wonder if it's really possible. This book will show them that it is."
--Robin Simons, author of Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits (Warner Books
"Breathtaking is an exciting blast around the world on two wheels. As a biking mother of three kids, I identified with the need to carry three and a half pounds of Harry Potter in overstuffed panniers, and appointing (and trusting) a leader of the day. And I recognised those daily, sometimes hourly, dilemmas about carrying on against the odds. This is a personal journey, a family journey, a global journey and ultimately the kind of journey we should all do with our kids at some point in our family lives."--Kirstie Pelling, owner and winner of the British travel blogger of the year award, The Family Adventure Project--Kirstie Pelling, owner and winner of the British travel blogger of the year award, The Family Adventure Project
"Kudos to the Ebers for concocting a crazy-big adventure--cycling around the world with two kids in tow--and then actually accomplishing it. Breathtaking celebrates the highs and takes a clear-eyed look at the lows of this ambitious trip--required reading for anybody who's considering a king-size adventure, both for inspiration and cautionary tales." --Susan Crandell, former editor-in-chief of More magazine and author of Thinking about Tomorrow: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife (Grand Central, 2007)
"The Ebers' story is a shining light for millennials everywhere who are challenging traditional notions and blurring the lines between a life of family and one of complete adventure. The Ebers have done both, and are an inspiring example of what incredible life experiences are possible with family in tow!" --Mike Marriner, Co-founder and co-producer of the PBS television series Roadtrip Nation

Long Description

As a young girl, trapped in bed with a life-threatening disease, Paula Eber dreamed of adventuring across the globe, visiting exotic places far beyond the suffocating walls of her bedroom. Thirty years later, now an anthropology professor, cyclist and mother of two young girls, Paula runs into a quirky ad that sets in motion a very unconventional idea. Why not bicycle around the world with her family? Traveling slowly on a bicycle and camping along the way, the family could meet the local people, intimately experiencing the culture, history and geography of the world. Plus, the journey could support an important cause. Each kilometer they pedaled would raise money for asthma, the disease that had almost killed Paula as a child. And by cycling, they would choose a sustainable form of travel, making the world a better place to breathe. Two years later, supported by six major outdoor sponsors and World Bike for Breath, , Paula, her husband, Lorenz, and their two daughters-eleven year old Yvonne and thirteen year old Anya-set off with two tandems, two tents, six panniers and one stuffed elephant. Their audacious plan: to pedal 15,000 kilometers across Europe, through Asia, Australia and the South Pacific and across North America in an unbroken, continuous circle around the globe. As they cycle, the Ebers do indeed plunge deeply into the local culture. They become guests of honor of an Italian cycling team; cook dinner with a Mongolian family over a dung fire in their yurt; participate in an ancient tea ceremony at a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan and are treated as honored guests at the Dayton rodeo in the U.S. However, as the family struggles with increasing hardships and danger, both parents and children are forced to grow and change both individually and together. Facing a 100 degree heat wave in Italy, a snowstorm at the Great Wall in China, an earthquake in Taiwan, and a tornado in North Dakota, the family is forced to work together-each dependent on the skills of the other, no matter how young. Dealing with drug smugglers and corrupt border guards in Russia, a bite by a poisonous molokau in Tonga and a broken foot in New Zealand, Paula and Lorenz learn hard leadership and decision-making lessons as parents. Yvonne and Anya come face to face with poverty and global inequities as they camp on the lawn of a Lithuanian man whose home has no heat or insulation. And weaving throughout the story is Paula's own personal challenge: overcoming her asthma as she struggles to breathe while cycling over high altitude mountains in the Alps and Rockies and battling pollution filled air in Asia. On August 28, 2004, the Ebers finished their 14,931 kilometer journey in Washington D.C. They raised $65,000 to combat a disease that kills more than 250,000 children and adults around the world every year. The family spoke about clean air and asthma to over 150 newspapers, magazines and TV stations across the globe, including features in Time for Kids and NPR, and PBS's Road Trip Nation. They are the only family on record to complete a full circumnavigation of the world by bicycle.

Review Quote

"The Ebers' story is a shining light for millennials everywhere who are challenging traditional notions and blurring the lines between a life of family and one of complete adventure. The Ebers have done both, and are an inspiring example of what incredible life experiences are possible with family in tow!"--Mike Marriner, co-founder and co-producer of the PBS television series Road Trip Nation

Details ISBN1493064312 Short Title Breathtaking Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1493064312 ISBN-13 9781493064311 Format Paperback Imprint Falcon Guides Subtitle How One Family Cycled Around the World for Clean Air and Asthma Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified; Maps; Halftones, Color including Color Photographs Pages 360 NZ Release Date 2022-08-15 UK Release Date 2022-08-15 Author Lorenz Eber DEWEY 910.41 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-06-14 Publication Date 2022-06-15 US Release Date 2022-06-15

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  • Author: Paula Holmes-Eber, Lorenz Eber
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