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Uphill : An Inspirational Story of Suffering, Greed, Carnage, Immense Courage and Gut-determination, Paperback / softback Book

Uphill : An Inspirational Story of Suffering, Greed, Carnage, Immense Courage and Gut-determination Paperback / softback

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Born in England to a middle class family, Geoffrey Bott excelled at school in most sports. A tenacious and unbridled drive to succeed that he didn’t know would be required in order to survive later in life.

Armed with a degree in engineering from the University of Sheffield, Geoffrey moved to California to reap his American Dream.

Uphill is incredibly emotional, vivid and detailed about the rise and fall of a gifted and talented engineer. An innocuous knee injury playing rugby for his city would develop into a grim prognosis a few decades later. A month after rejecting a second groundbreaking knee rebuild procedure, his wife files for divorce and the life he had attained started to unravel.

The book takes the reader to a bar in soviet Russia, a brothel in Venezuela, a nightclub in Hong Kong, to Taipei, Tokyo, Vancouver Island, a casino in Las Vegas. It graphically describes thirteen left knee surgeries, screaming pain, addictions to mind-altering opioids, a precedent-setting divorce, a court file sealed from public records, a forest fire that destroyed his new neighbourhood, a night in jail, world’s first scientific discoveries and cycling heroics deemed impossible that left the renowned medical profession speechless. This is a captivating page-turner that has it all and encapsulates the very essence of human suffering, courage, hope and determination.

An inspirational, entertaining and riveting story that will leave the reader stunned and emotionally drained.

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