No Visible Horizon
Subtitle: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780743229500
Subjects: Air sports & recreations; Biography: general; Literature: History & Criticism; Sports & Recreation; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Stunt flying; Air Sports; Aviation - General; General; Transportation / Aviation / General; Literary
First sentence: In the middle of the fifteenth century in Japan, a time when the kingdom was both at its most isolated and, to Japanese eyes, most perfect, a strange tradition emerged: composing haiku as you died, at the very moment of death.