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Sto caricando le informazioni... Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetimedi Maggie Downs
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I fell in love with this book instantly. There are parts of Maggie’s journey that instantly grabbed me. A Midwestern girl with a German mother (mine once removed), a Vietnam War Vet Dad, the National Geographic Magazines and the influence they had, etc. I went to college to be an Anthropologist, but after college I followed a boy instead of my dreams of travel/ grad school. My life today is happy (different boy), but I love to read books like this where someone did what I wasn’t brave enough to do. Thank you Maggie, you gave me several days away from this pandemic and away from the suburbs to places that I too looked at in magazines with my mom and now look at with my one and only son. Such a great book! ( ) I fell in love with this book instantly. There are parts of Maggie’s journey that instantly grabbed me. A Midwestern girl with a German mother (mine once removed), a Vietnam War Vet Dad, the National Geographic Magazines and the influence they had, etc. I went to college to be an Anthropologist, but after college I followed a boy instead of my dreams of travel/ grad school. My life today is happy (different boy), but I love to read books like this where someone did what I wasn’t brave enough to do. Thank you Maggie, you gave me several days away from this pandemic and away from the suburbs to places that I too looked at in magazines with my mom and now look at with my one and only son. Such a great book! I just plain LOVED this book!!!! Maggie Downs writes SO beautifully of her incredible year long trek around the world. Yes, she is a journalist but this is such a personal book. The Epilogue was especially meaningful, coming full circle for the reader. I was in tears with her description of visiting an Elephant Rescue service to volunteer in 2010/2011---and yet here she was, with her young son and husband in 2018----at that same place as visitors. I was delighted to see that Thailand had improved so many things in the years since she was there. It's a wonderful book to read to see how much one person can change and wonder.....how many of us could DO that? She sets a wonderful example for young people. My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68-O2un27Mw Enjoy! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself - Maggie faces some of the world's most exotic locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother and the close bond they shared. Interweaving travelogue with memories of her family, Braver Than You Think takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, whitewater rafting down the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt. By embarking on a global journey, Downs embraces what it means to make every moment count - traveling around the globe and home again, losing a parent while discovering the world"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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