World of Adventure Sports, Lonely Planet (1st ed. Nov. 20)

Get your adrenaline pumping with this guide to extreme sports! Discover awesome facts, stats and rules of snowboarding, skydiving, BMX, rock climbing and more. You'll also meet star athletes in every sport, learn a list of essential slang, see a timeline of each sport's development, and get a rundown of global hot spots--all illustrated with cool street-art graphics and epic photography! Find out what a "brain bucket" is, meet the greats, like snowboarder Chloe Kim and skateboarder Danny Way, and learn how they got so good at what they do, see timelines of each sport's history and find out the best mountains to climb, waves to surf, and skate-parks to shred in Lonely Planet Kids' World of Adventure Sports. Includes: Snowboarding Surfing BMX Skateboarding Rock Climbing Skydiving Scuba Diving Kayaking And more!