Skydiving: Action Sports [Hardcover]

Christopher Meeks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1991

Describes the history, equipment, and techniques of skydiving.

--This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Children's Press (CT) (September 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 051635051X
• ISBN-13: 978-0516350516
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,989,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christopher Meeks was born in Minnesota, earned degrees from the University of Denver and USC, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1977. He's taught English at Santa Monica College, and creative writing at CalArts, UCLA Extension, Art Center College of Design, and USC. His fiction has appeared often in Rosebud magazine as well as other literary journals, and his books have won several Noble (not Nobel) Awards. His short works have been collected into two volumes, "The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea" and "Months and Seasons," the latter which appeared on the long list for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He's had three plays produced, and "Who Lives?: A Drama" is published. His focus is now on longer fiction. His first novel is "The Brightest Moon of the Century," and his second, "Love At Absolute Zero."