Karen McCann

Karen McCann

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An award-winning journalist, author, and travel writer, Karen McCann has been living in Seville, Spain, since 2004. Wanderlust has taken her to more than thirty countries, including many developing or post-war nations where she and her husband volunteer as consultants to struggling microenterprises. A fourth-generation Californian, she lived in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband for two decades before the couple moved to Seville “for a year” and decided to make it their home.

Today, she spends her time writing, blogging, painting, exploring Seville, and traveling the world. She makes frequent visits to the US because America is something you have to stay in practice for, and she doesn't want to lose her touch.

Her book DANCING IN THE FOUNTAIN: How to Enjoy Living Abroad has been called "warm, inviting, immediately charming, and constantly entertaining," and "perhaps the best book about travel that I have ever read." Lonely Planet wrote, "I loved this book ... I must have laughed aloud at least once in every chapter ... The advice in the book is terrific." Her latest book is the handy little guide 101 WAYS TO ENJOY LIVING ABROAD: Essential Tips for Easing the Transition to Expat Life. "I've distilled the best advice I've received from veteran expats, mixed in my own hard-earned lessons about adapting to a new, foreign home, and peppered it with stories to keep the pace lively."

Both books are available from Amazon and other online retailers worldwide. For more, visit www.enjoylivingabroad.com.

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

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<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that  cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>

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