Title: A second life : a collected nonfiction /
Authors: Gerber, Dan, 1940-
Publisher: Michigan State University Press,
Year: 2001
Abstract: "A Second Life brings together the best of Dan Gerber's previously published essays and magazine stories, many of which have appeared in Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated, with several new pieces. Gerber limns his experience as a professional racing driver, journalist, sailor, and fisherman with a poet's eye and a novelist's gift for narrative, believing, as he states in his introduction, that our truest lives must be imagined."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction -- From Out of control -- A second life -- Indy, the world's fastest carnival ride -- A brief forward -- The heart is one -- Distant thunder -- Thanksgiving on the Fourth of July -- Along the Uaso Nyiro -- The Dry Tortugas express -- No salt but plenty of pepper -- The Havana wind -- Icebreaker -- Sailfishing off Key West -- The marlin misunderstanding -- The fascination of what's difficult -- Last words -- A few thoughts on Adam's curse -- Notebook of an arctic explorer -- An interview / conducted by Greg Rappleye.