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GRAY, CARL A. The Bionic Octogenarian.
Greenville, NC Williams & Simpson, Publishers 1986 0932705022 / 9780932705020 First Edition Hard Cover
285 pages, well illustrated, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the dj: The dynamic skier that you see o the cover of this book has this that is unusual about him. At the time that the photograph was taken in his beloved Sun Valley, Carl A. Gray was in his seventies and in possession of two brand-new artificial hips. One of his chief motivations in writing these memoires of his eventful life, Carl says, was to encourage others not to give up, not to sit back and join what he calls the 'stile-yawn set' but to continue to live life to the fullest. And this indeed is what he himself has always done. When most American highways were still muddy bogs or sandy trails, Carl set out with a young companion on an automotive odyssey from his Worcester, Massachusetts home to the West Coast and back aboard a stripped-down Model-T Ford that dragged a tree-trunk behind it as an anchor to descent the hair-raising mountain grades. In the summer of his graduation from Dartmouth he set out as a cattle boat cowhand on a journey across the Atlantic to see Europe. He had $125 in his pocket and his tennis racket, a powerful weapon in the hands of this six-footer of Swedish ancestry which enabled him to play through the warm weather on the continental tournament circuit, thereby providing for his room and board. The very net year he was off on a 12-month long round-the-world tour that included contact with Manchurian bandits…
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