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‘Successful people who pretend they have it all worked out and have executed flawless plans to get to their objective – are not being truthful. Be careful of these posers … In reality, business and life is a series of successes and setbacks.’ After bailing out of the corporate world, new-media journalist Matthew Buckland built a digital-marketing and media business, Creative Spark, that employed 70+ people and counted top global and local brands as clients. He fulfilled many an entrepreneur’s...
| Автор | Matthew Buckland |
Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in post-war Johannesburg, Carnie Matisonn learns of a great-uncle in occupied Norway murdered by Nazi soldiers as they looted his prized art collection. He starts a life-long quest to retrieve the art that takes him into the murky waters of apartheid sanctions-busting, Mossad agents, international art dealers and Nazi hunters. Matisonn's enthralling story – told here with journalist Charles Cilliers – embraces courage, wit and wisdom as he shows...
| Автор | Carnie Matisonn |
The Road to San Donato is an adventurous travel memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage by bicycle. With only the bare essentials on their backs, author Robert Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a torturous 425-mile ride from Florence, Italy, to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village hidden in the Apennine mountains from which their family emigrated a hundred years earlier. After getting lost, beaten down, and very nearly stranded,...
| Автор | Robert Cocuzzo |
In April 2015, Beth and Eric Jusino, laden with backpacks and nerves, walked out of a cathedral in the historic village of Le Puy, France, down a cobblestone street, and turned west. Seventy-nine days, a thousand miles, two countries, two mountain ranges, and three pairs of shoes later, they reached the Atlantic Ocean. <br><br>More than two million pilgrims have walked the Way of Saint James, a long-distance hiking trail familiar to most Americans by its Spanish name, the Camino de...
| Автор | Beth Jusino |
Wife and mother. Teacher and musician. Marathoner and rock climber. At 66, Dierdre Wolownick-Honnold became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan in Yosemite–and in <i>The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story</i>, she shares her intimate journey, revealing how her climbing achievement reflects a broader story of courage and persistence.<br><br> Dierdre grew up under the watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized early on that her parents’ plans for her future...
| Автор | Dierdre Wolownick |
This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version <a href="https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/miles-from-nowhere-a-round-the-world-bicycle-adventure-1">here.</a><br><br> <i>Miles from Nowhere</i> is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage’s sometimes dangerous, often zany, but...
| Автор | Barbara Savage |
“<i>The Starship and the Canoe</i> is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name.” –<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> <br><br> “Brower’s superbly written book clutches at one’s imagination.” –<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <br><br> “In the tradition of Carl Sagan and...
| Автор | Kenneth Brower |
Photographer Paul Souders considered himself a lucky guy. He traveled the world and got paid to take pictures. Yet at age fifty he seemed an unlikely explorer. Recently married, he was leading a generally contented life as an urban homebody, ending most days with a cold martini and a home-cooked meal. So how did he find himself alone aboard a tiny boat, enduring bad weather and worse cooking, while struggling to find his way across more than a thousand miles of of Hudson Bay?<br><br>...
| Автор | Paul Souders |
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the «Triple Crown» of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains.<br><br> In her new memoir, <i>Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home</i>, Heather, whose trail name is...
| Автор | Heather Anderson |
The result of an illegal affair between a white British woman and black South African man, during apartheid, 'Karoline' is classified as 'white', but her true parentage soon emerges. At 6 weeks old she is secreted out of SA under the pretense of needing medical treatment in the UK. On returning, her biological mother says her newborn has died abroad. Karoline is adopted by a white British couple. Plagued by questions surrounding her identity, she returns 'home' at...
| Автор | Sara-Jayne King |
CLICK HERE to download sample chapters from Lighting Out “The contrast between the slacker-climbing crowd and the New Age poseurs is enhanced by a wonderfully deadpan writing style that is rarely too technical for those unfamiliar with the sport. Highly recommended.” – Library Journal “[Duane] explores with fine irony and rare depth his awakening into manhood, love, and conquest…” – Isabel Allende • Reissue of a well-regarded coming-of-age memoir about Yosemite and the West Coast in the...
| Автор | Daniel Duane |
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Psychovertical Psychovertical is the story of what happens to a nice lower-class kid with dyslexia who gains control over his circumstances by clinging to giant stone faces, thousands of feet in the air, for days at a time. In this case, Kirkpatrick uses his 12-day solo climb of the Reticent Wall on California's El Capitan as the experience that helps him understand how growing up poor and struggling with dyslexia and low self-confidence...
| Автор | Andy Kirkpatrick |
"Not only did Hornbein play a crucial role in one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in the history of mountaineering, his account of the feat is one of the finest things ever written about this peculiar, hazardous, and uncommonly engaging pursuit." —Jon Krakauer * Special anniversary edition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest via the West Ridge * The West Ridge remains the least attempted and most deadly of recognized...
| Автор | Thomas F. Hornbein |
This story of four Seattle civil rights activists who led four different communities (Native American, Asian, Mexican and African American) to protest as one is unique in the history of US civil rights and will appeal to scholars and those interested in social justice. The Muckleshoot tribe will use the book in its reservation high schools to teach about Bernie Whitebear, a Muckleshoot member and one of the Gang of Four. The book will visually evoke the 60s with archival and personal photos from...
| Автор | Bob Santos |
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father. He taught her how to have fun; he also taught her to fear food poisoning, other children’s infectious diseases, and the contaminating propensities of the world at large. Alienated from her emotionally distant mother, the girl bonded closely with her father and his worldview. When he plunged from neurotic to full-blown...
| Автор | Deborah A. Lott |
Growing up on the south side of Chicago in a poor, black, working-class neighborhood, Delon Hampton realized early on that any success he would achieve in life, he had to create on his own. Having earned a place at college, he decided to focus on civil engineering. After completing his graduate and PhD studies at Purdue University, Hampton entered a career that was not always welcoming to an African American—first as an academic and then, in 1973, as the founder of Delon Hampton & Associates...
| Автор | Delon Hampton |
In <b><i>One Water</b></i> the author takes us on a journey through the Alaskan wilderness to the streets of its second largest city in a quest to find meaning in this world. The book is not merely a narrative of his adventures but also describes many of the geological, biological, and climactic circumstances that have shaped this great land. Another strand woven through this collection is the coming of age story of a freewheeling young drifter slowly accepting his...
| Автор | Rob McCue |
Táto e-kniha je o vplyve západnej kultúry na egyptského autora. Veľmi ma zaujímala politika a spravodajstvo. Výsledkom bolo, že som mal pocit, že nás všetci ľudia zo západu nenávidia. Aj keď viem, že zovšeobecňovanie je základnou, veľmi častou chybou, stal som sa obeťou tejto chyby: počúval som správy a zovšeobecňoval som svoje pocity: všetci ľudia zo západu nás nenávidia a chcú zničiť naše krajiny. V roku 2003 som sa stal užívateľom internetu. Dostal som sa do styku s mnohými ľuďmi zo západu. A...
| Автор | Wael El-Manzalawy |
这本书将使你认知到我们的一切行动将对我们和我们的子孙后代所造成的后果，甚至那些尚未出生的孩子。诅咒这个主题长期以来一直被忽视，我们发现有必要在这里揭露它。我们从研读圣经开始，确切地了解上帝对诅咒是怎么说的，它们是如何运作的，以及我们如何才能完全摆脱诅咒。世代相传的诅咒是如此重要，以至于上帝将它们列在十诫的表上。 这本书将使你认知到我们的一切行动将对我们和我们的子孙后代所造成的后果，甚至那些尚未出生的孩子。诅咒这个主题长期以来一直被忽视，我们发现有必要在这里揭露它。我们从研读圣经开始，确切地了解上帝对诅咒是怎么说的，它们是如何运作的，以及我们如何才能完全摆脱诅咒。世代相传的诅咒是如此重要，以至于上帝将它们列在十诫的表上。 许多人被敌人用看不见的、无法辨认的奴役工具所束缚。在这项研究中，我们将学习如何打破这些源自敌人的锁链。我们更深入地探索了偶像崇拜（包括万圣节），不道德，背叛，偷窃，谋杀等领域。 我相信，当你阅读这本书并探索其中的真理时，你会振奋地审视自己，并为过一种圣洁的生活而作出深思熟虑的努力，即使不是为了你自己，至少也是为了你的孩子和尚未出生的后代。...
| Автор | Gabriel Agbo |
Perseguida, proscrita y exiliada, la legendaria cantante folclórica argentina, Mercedes Sosa, hizo temblar a los dictadores sudamericanos en los ’70. Apodada “La voz de los que no tienen voz”, Sosa se convirtió en un ícono de la democracia y una muy amada madre de América Latina. Mercedes Sosa – La voz de la esperanza expone la notable vida y carrera de Sosa y ofrece un perfil psicológico que revela el secreto detrás de su enorme impacto. Con su poderosa voz y su irresistible presencia en el...
| Автор | Anette Christensen |
The Argentine folk singer and social activist, Mercedes Sosa, was a world-class performer, whose influence went far beyond the borders of music. Blacklisted as being one the most dangerous people to the regime in Argentina in the 1970s, she became the underground reference point for the poor and oppressed, and an icon of democracy who fought South America’s dictators with her voice. Nicknamed, “The Voice of the Voiceless,” Sosa emerged as a legend and a much-loved mother of Latin America. With...
| Автор | Anette Christensen |
In stark, haunting prose, first-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel.<br /><br />Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than...
| Автор | Peter Razor |
In June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10,000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus workers had raped a white teenage girl—charges that would later be proven false. Three men were dragged from their cells and lynched in front of the cheering crowd.<br /><br />More than eighty years later, Warren Read—a fourth-grade teacher, devoted partner, and father to three boys—plugged his mother's maiden name...
| Автор | Warren Read |
On December 30, 1960, Marisella Veiga with her mother and two brothers boarded a plane from Havana to Miami. Her father fled a few months later, joining his family with a total of fourteen U.S. cents in his pocket and an understanding that he would never see his homeland again. Seeking a less competitive job market and thanks largely to the sponsorship of a host family in St. Paul, the Veigas resettled in Minnesota, miles away from the Caribbean subtropics, where the climate was similar to home,...
| Автор | Marisella Veiga |