A beautifully illustrated 30th anniversary celebration of Rick
Hansen's Man in Motion Tour, which broke barriers for people with
disabilities and inspired ordinary citizens to realize impossible
dreams.
On March 21, 1985, world-class wheelchair marathoner and multiple
Paralympic medalist Rick Hansen set out from Vancouver, British
Columbia, on his Man in Motion World Tour. The twenty-six-month trek
took him and a small but determined crew almost 25,000 miles through 34
countries on four continents before crossing Canada. In the process,
they raised $26 million for spinal cord research and for initiatives to
improve the quality of life and accessibility for people with
disabilities. Thirty years after the journey ended, Rick Hansen's Man
in Motion Tour celebrates that ground-breaking accomplishment and, with
a foreword from Rick himself, highlights the legacy of the Man in Motion
World Tour and the amazing progress it has spurred up to the present
day. Illustrated with exclusive photographs from the Rick Hansen
Foundation archives, it is a universal story of courage and adversity,
human strength and personal suffering, and, above all, the power of
community to effect lasting social change.