How to Ride a Dragon: Women with Breast Cancer Tell Their Stories

By Michelle Tocher

Book Overview

For breast cancer survivors who have formed dragon boat teams in over 150 communities worldwide, the boat is more than a vessel. Literal and metaphorical, the mythological dragon has become a symbol... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552633977
• ISBN13: 9781552633977
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Transforming the dragon that is breast cancer

Dragon imagery and plots of courage and despair from the Tale of Beowulf and Chinese legends give shape and coherence to stories of 22 women who overcame the breast cancer by joining dragon boat teams in Canada. These women's sensitively told stories ought to inspire legions of women to take to their boats! If you want to do a good deed, by several copies of How to Ride the Dragon to bring comfort to patients in doctors' waiting rooms, oncology offices, and radiology centers.

Breast Cancer Survivors become Paddlers!

This is a book written by a group of breast cancer survivors who have fought their cancer & now paddle together on BCS teams around the world. Read their stories of inspiration! You might even want to join a dragon boat team!