Skydiving

Short of hurling yourself out of an airplane, Thomas Fensch's Skydiving is the best way yet devised to approximate the rush and the challenge of the sport. This treasury of narrative, poetry, fiction, photography, personal profiles and outrageous jump stories is a complete survey of the mechanics and mystique of skydiving.

The close calls, the monumental achievements -- the catastrophes and the splendor --are all captured in

Skydiving.