In No More Worlds to Conquer, what do you do next if you have walked on the moon, scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic competition, become the first person to break the sound barrier or descend to the deepest part of the ocean, Mariana Trench?  How do you move on after you have survived being captain of a crashed airliner or spent five and a half years chained to a prison wall in Beirut?

There are many people who will forever be known for a single moment.  No matter what they do with the rest of their lives, it won’t change the fact that the first line of their Wikipedia entry, the core of their biography and the opening line of their inevitable obituary, is already written.  So how does one step beyond such a thing?  More of the same?  A total change of direction?  Misery and depression?

This book highlights how the story is different for 12 unique individuals where each of them has grappled with the same challenge of finding meaning after a defining moment, of turning the rest of their lives into something beyond a footnote.  Makes for great beach reading, especially the opening chapter on Don Walsh who was the first person, 50+ years before anyone else, to descend to Challenger Deep in Mariana Trench.