Cloudsuck

The Life and Death Struggle for the Hang Gliding World Record

By Davis Straub

Cloudsuck comes in two formats. A hardcopy (paperback) book and a PDF-formatted and password-protected ebook that you can read on your computer with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

I wrote Cloudsuck to appeal both to a broad audience interested in adventure writing and to those who have imagined what it would be like to take flight on their own, perhaps as they have already done in their dreams. It tells the gripping story of the decade-long effort that lead up to the shattering of the hang gliding distance record in Zapata, Texas, in July, 2000. Through this story the general reader can feel what it's like to be a cross country hang glider pilot flying over 300 miles in a ten hour flight.

Cloudsuck also appeals to members of the hang gliding community as a story of adventure and struggle in the extreme regions of cross country hang gliding.

You can download the combined unprotected version of the Preface, Table of Contents, and First Chapter in PDF format by right clicking here. The file is 450 kb.

To purchase the hardcopy (paperback) version of Cloudsuck for $19.95, click here or for $17.95 (for the same book) here.

If you wish to purchase the whole ebook version, click the button below and I'll send you an e-mail with a link to where you can download the 2.5 MB file, which is the book.