Robert Cocuzzo
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Doug Coombs was one of the greatest skiers of his generation-arguably, the greatest. Winner of the very first World Extreme Ski Championship, he helped pioneer major steep-skiing destinations in Wyoming, Alaska, and France. He guided, taught, starred in ski movies, and inspired countless fellow skiers and friends through his effortless grace on the slopes. But who, exactly, was this unlikely skiing phenom from New England? At the age of sixteen, Coombs...
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The Road to San Donato is an adventurous and nostalgic bicycling memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage. Riding rental bikes and carrying a bare minimum of supplies, Rob Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a 425-mile ride from Florence to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village in the mountains outside of Rome from which the Cocuzzo family emigrated a hundred years earlier.
Prompted by...