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Title: Ups & Downs
Subtitle: The (Mis)Adventures of a Crusty Old Fart and his Bouncy Son as they Trek Though the Alps
Author: Don & David Kassin Fried
ISBN: 1-4392-1483-2
EAN: 9781439214831
Trim Size: 5.5 in x 8.5 in
Pages: 250
Price: $15.99
Season: Spring/summer
Pub Date: March 2009
Genre: Travel/adventure
E-mail: upsanddowns@fried.cc
Phone: Texas: (512) 567-3414; Colorado: (303) 652-4932
Fax: (512) 459-8169
Thanks for your interest in Ups & Downs. See below for high resolution downloads, including cover files, cartoons, photos, and sample chapters, as well as a media review sheet and sample review. More pictures are available at the Ups & Downs Facebook Page. For more information, please direct press inquiries to upsanddowns@fried.cc.
Downloads
- Front Cover – Low Res (100k JPG file)
- Front Cover – High Res (12 meg TIF file)
- Front & Back Cover with Spine – Low Res (200k JPG file)
- Front & Back Cover with Spine – High Res (26 meg TIF file)
- Sample Cartoon – TI Wrestling (700k JPG file)
- Sample Cartoon – Cliff (2 meg JPG file)
- Photo – Don & David at Mont Blanc (1 meg JPG file)
- Photo – Bonhomme Sunset (500k JPG file)
- Photo – Einsiedeln Kloster (700k JPG file)
- Sample Chapter – Lizard Love (300k PDF file)
- Sample Chapter – Death Pass, Part 2 (1.7meg PDF file)
- Review Sheet (500k PDF file) and (93k Word file)
- Sample Review (150k PDF file) and (900k Word file)
Reviews
- Midwest Book Review – Selected as Reviewer’s Choice for Small Press Bookwatch, March 2009. 5/5 stars (as posted on Amazon.com). “… a fine choice for true adventure fans, highly recommended.” Read MBR’s full review of Ups & Downs here.
- RebeccasReads.com – “I do not typically laugh out loud as I am reading. But this book made me LOL more times than I can count. … The authors do a fantastic job of giving a visual account of the uniqueness of the towns-people, the villages, the countries and the cultures. The beauty of the landscape, the difficulty of the journey and the individual experiences that each narrate is awe inspiring, incredibly amusing, and greatly entertaining.” Read the Rebecca’s Reads review of Ups & Downs here.
Awards
- Foreword Reviews – Selected as a Book of the Year Award Finalist in the Travel Essays category. Winners will be announced May 25, 2010 at Book Expo America. See the Foreword Book of the Year Award Travel Essay Finalists here.
