This book combines spectacular images of heart-stopping skateboarding tricks across six continents paired with heartwarming stories of how the sport unites youth around the world "Jonathan Mehring’s first book, called Skate the World, featuring images he’s made over a period of 15 years of skateboarding in unexpected places all over the globe." --Photo District News

"A new book of photography provides us with a novel way of looking at the world." --Hemispheres 

"Beyond these impressive landscapes and hair-raising tricks, Mehring documents the spirit of skateboarding culture found in unassuming small cities and towns: quiet moments where people find community and solace in a pastime that can be a distraction from hardship, and the skateboard a badge of camaraderie." --Vanity Fair 

"Skate the World chronicles skateboarders grinding, ollying, and catching record-breaking air on nearly every continent." --Daily Beast

"Jonathan Mehring's Skate the World (National Geographic) is sick." --Vanity Fair