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Defying Limits

By: Dr Dave Williams
Narrated by: Dr Dave Williams - prologue, Jonathan Todd Ross
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Summary

An inspirational, uplifting and life-affirming memoir about passion, resilience, and living life to the fullest from Dr Dave Williams, one of Canada’s most accomplished astronauts.

I had dreamt about becoming an astronaut from the time I watched Alan Shepard launch on the first American suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. Eleven days before my seventh birthday, I committed to a new goal: one day, I would fly in outer space.

Dr Dave has led the sort of life that most people only dream of. He has set records for spacewalking. He has lived undersea for weeks at a time. He has saved lives as an emergency doctor, launched into the stratosphere twice and performed surgery in zero gravity. 

But if you ask him how he became so accomplished, he’ll say, 'I’m just a curious kid from Saskatchewan.' Curious indeed. 

Dr Dave never lost his desire to explore nor his fascination with the world. Whether he was exploring the woods behind his childhood home or floating in space at the end of the Canadarm, Dave tried to see every moment of his life as filled with beauty and meaning. He learned to scuba dive at only 12 years old, became a doctor despite academic struggles as an undergraduate and overcame stiff odds and fierce competition to join the ranks of the astronauts he had idolised as a child. 

There were setbacks and challenges along the way - the loss of friends in the Columbia disaster, a cancer diagnosis that nearly prevented him from returning to space - but through it all, Dave never lost sight of his goal. And when he finally had the chance to fly among the stars, he came to realise that although the destination can be spectacular, it’s the journey that truly matters. 

In Defying Limits, Dave shares the events that have defined his life, showing us that whether we’re gravity-defying astronauts or earthbound terrestrials, we can all live infinite, fulfilled lives by relishing the value and importance of each moment. The greatest fear that we all face is not the fear of dying but the fear of never having lived. Each of us is greater than we believe. And together we can exceed our limits to soar farther and higher than we ever imagined. 

©2018 Dave Williams (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

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