Footsteps of Federer: A Fan's Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts - Softcover

Seminara, Dave

 
9781642938562: Footsteps of Federer: A Fan's Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1642938564 ISBN 13: 9781642938562
Verlag: Post Hill Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

A writer and tennis player seeks insights and inspiration by traveling across Switzerland in the footsteps of Roger Federer.

Roger Federer could live anywhere in the world, but he always returns to the place he loves most: Switzerland. Dave Seminara is a mad traveler and tennis lifer who has written about Federer for The New York Times and other publications. A pair of autoimmune diseases and a knee surgery kept Dave from playing tennis for years, but as he inched toward recovery, he had a bright idea: why not start his tennis comeback on hallowed ground—courts that his hero Roger Federer graced in Switzerland. 

Footsteps of Federer is a funny, novella-length account of Seminara’s travels across seven Swiss cantons in search of insights into Federer’s character, which is inextricably linked to his deep roots in, and love for, his country. Seminara timed his unique pilgrimage to the 2019 Swiss Indoors, where he had a chance to ask Roger a number of offbeat questions before and after Federer hoisted his record tenth title there. Seminara’s Federer pilgrimage took him to Switzerland’s most important abbey, where he prayed with Abbot Urban Federer; to the vineyard of Jakob Federer from Berneck, where the Federer clan originated from; to the stunning villa where Roger and Mirka were married; and to many of the neighborhoods and tennis clubs where Roger has lived and trained at over the years.

Earphones Award Winner.

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Dave Seminara is a writer, former diplomat, and passionate tennis fan who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, which first published a brief account of this journey, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Washington Post, and dozens of other publications. He is the author of two international bestsellers: Bed, Breakfast & Drunken Threats: Dispatches from the Margins of Europe and Breakfast with Polygamists: Dispatches from the Margins of The Americas. For more information, visit www.daveseminara.com.

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Verlag
Post Hill Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1642938564
ISBN 13 
9781642938562
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Anzahl der Seiten
144
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