Customer Reviews
Courage beyond measure - By: DARREN "Big Nose" WALKER, 12 Jun 2008 
This book is a fantastic read. It tells the story of Chris Moon & how he survived capture by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia & was injured by a land mine oin Africa.
His story is a fine example of courage told in an up-lifting & entertaining way. Well worth the read to be inspired.
Unputdownable - By: S. Foster, 14 Jul 2006 What an amazing guy. This book will inspire you & make you humble at the same time. It is funny, sad & page turningly good.
I met Chris on my first London Marathon after reading this & he was brilliant - a smashing sense of humour & he was slogging away. Makes you feel an idiot complaining about blisters.
Read this book - it will change your life.
Mr Moon - inspiration to us all - By: , 19 Mar 2003 I was moved to read Chris Moon's book after seeing him on Parky's TV show. What a true inspiration he is, how can any of us who haven't been through such trauma ever complain again?! What I want to know now is was he like this BEFORE the mine or did the experience change him into this truly humble & positive person? Whatever - it is a book which everyone guilty of succumbing to the "stresses" of modern life should read. Then go figure!
Triumph in the face of incredible adversity - By: , 18 Jul 2000 On June 21 1994, my son Master corporal Mark R Isfeld was killed in Kakma, croatia, removing landmines with the Canadian Military Engineers.
I subsequently met Chris Moon several times in the course of activity surrounding the campaign to Ban Landmines, & as a member of the Landmine Survivors Network.
Having known Chris, & now having read the account of his adventures in the book, I can assure you that you are in for some interesting accounts from a very interesting & dynamic person.
From the depths of Cambodia as a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge, to the almost surrealistic "step by step" account of his encounter with a landmine that took his foot & hand, & nearly his life, to the awe-inspiring challlenge of running in the London marathon less than a year after he lost these limbs, this book will satisfy even the reader without an interest in the landmine phenomenon to the utmost, giving an insight into a heroic & dedicated individual who has experienced both the joy & horrors of life as few individuals have experienced them. In many ways, he reminds me of my son, who, given the chance at life, would have been proud, as I am, to have callled Chris Moon his Friend.
An inspirational read - By: , 01 Jul 2000 This enthrallling often harrowing book is a source of inspiration for anyone. Chris Moon, a hero by anyone's standards recounts his capture by & escape from the Khmer Rouge as well as the devastation of being blown up by a landmine. His positive, never say die attitude despite alll the adversity shouts out from almost every page. But it doesn't stop there - Chris's determination to overcome his disabilities has resulted in achievements that many so callled able bodied people would shy away from. If you feel that life is sometimes to much to bear then read this book.
