Author: Cory Mortensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735498126
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Life-Changing Journey... but this is NOT a typical blah-blah-blah memoir Planning is for sissies. A solo bike ride across the country will be filled with sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, and 80 degree temps every day, right? Not so much. The Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, an alkaline desert, and the Sierra Nevadas lay miles and days ahead. Disappointment with unrealized potential, and the thirst for what's next drew farther away in the rotating wide-angle shockproof convex rear-view mirror. I will ride my bike down a never-ending ribbon of asphalt wearing a backpack. Cory Mortensen began his bike ride across the United States from Chaska, Minnesota, to Truckee, California, without a route, a timeline, or proper equipment. Along the way, he gained more than technical skills required for a ride that would test every fiber of his physical being and mental toughness. Ride along as he meets "unusual" characters, dangerous animals, and sweet little old ladies with a serious vendetta for strangers in their town. Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace From long stretches of road ending in a vanishing point at the distant horizon, to stunning vistas, terrifying close calls, grueling conditions, failed equipment, and joyous milestones he stayed the course and gained an appreciation for the beauty of the land, the genius of engineering and marvel of nature.
The Buddha and the Bee
Author: Cory Mortensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735498126
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Life-Changing Journey... but this is NOT a typical blah-blah-blah memoir Planning is for sissies. A solo bike ride across the country will be filled with sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, and 80 degree temps every day, right? Not so much. The Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, an alkaline desert, and the Sierra Nevadas lay miles and days ahead. Disappointment with unrealized potential, and the thirst for what's next drew farther away in the rotating wide-angle shockproof convex rear-view mirror. I will ride my bike down a never-ending ribbon of asphalt wearing a backpack. Cory Mortensen began his bike ride across the United States from Chaska, Minnesota, to Truckee, California, without a route, a timeline, or proper equipment. Along the way, he gained more than technical skills required for a ride that would test every fiber of his physical being and mental toughness. Ride along as he meets "unusual" characters, dangerous animals, and sweet little old ladies with a serious vendetta for strangers in their town. Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace From long stretches of road ending in a vanishing point at the distant horizon, to stunning vistas, terrifying close calls, grueling conditions, failed equipment, and joyous milestones he stayed the course and gained an appreciation for the beauty of the land, the genius of engineering and marvel of nature.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735498126
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Life-Changing Journey... but this is NOT a typical blah-blah-blah memoir Planning is for sissies. A solo bike ride across the country will be filled with sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, and 80 degree temps every day, right? Not so much. The Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, an alkaline desert, and the Sierra Nevadas lay miles and days ahead. Disappointment with unrealized potential, and the thirst for what's next drew farther away in the rotating wide-angle shockproof convex rear-view mirror. I will ride my bike down a never-ending ribbon of asphalt wearing a backpack. Cory Mortensen began his bike ride across the United States from Chaska, Minnesota, to Truckee, California, without a route, a timeline, or proper equipment. Along the way, he gained more than technical skills required for a ride that would test every fiber of his physical being and mental toughness. Ride along as he meets "unusual" characters, dangerous animals, and sweet little old ladies with a serious vendetta for strangers in their town. Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace From long stretches of road ending in a vanishing point at the distant horizon, to stunning vistas, terrifying close calls, grueling conditions, failed equipment, and joyous milestones he stayed the course and gained an appreciation for the beauty of the land, the genius of engineering and marvel of nature.
Five Weeks in the Amazon
Author: Sean Michael Hayes
Publisher: Hmmediahouse
ISBN: 9780993978401
Category : Depressed persons
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Sean Hayes was a successful skateboarder who made it on the cover of Skateboard Canada by the age of 18, and had a six-figure salary by 25, but he was completely miserable. Here, he outlines his journey through the Amazon and his attempt to find answers to the problems in his life.
Publisher: Hmmediahouse
ISBN: 9780993978401
Category : Depressed persons
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Sean Hayes was a successful skateboarder who made it on the cover of Skateboard Canada by the age of 18, and had a six-figure salary by 25, but he was completely miserable. Here, he outlines his journey through the Amazon and his attempt to find answers to the problems in his life.
The Amateur Garden
Author: George Washington Cable
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Soul of Russia
Author: Winifred Stephens Whale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Hitching for Hope
Author: Ruairí McKiernan
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603589589
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
#1 Irish Times Bestseller! A modern travel tale—part personal pilgrimage, part political quest—that captures the power of human resilience "McKiernan sticks his thumb out, and somehow a healthy dose of humanity manages to roll up alongside him. . . . This book is a paean to nuance, decency and possibility."—Colum McCann, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon. Following the collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger economy, social activist Ruairí McKiernan questions whether he should join the mounting number of emigrants searching for greater opportunity elsewhere. McKiernan embarks on a hitchhiking odyssey with no money, no itinerary and no idea where he might end up each night. His mission: to give voice to those emerging from one of the most painful periods of economic and social turmoil in Ireland’s history. Engaging, provocative and sincere, Hitching for Hope is a testimony to the spirit of Ireland. It is an inspirational manifesto for hope and healing in troubled times.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603589589
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
#1 Irish Times Bestseller! A modern travel tale—part personal pilgrimage, part political quest—that captures the power of human resilience "McKiernan sticks his thumb out, and somehow a healthy dose of humanity manages to roll up alongside him. . . . This book is a paean to nuance, decency and possibility."—Colum McCann, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon. Following the collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger economy, social activist Ruairí McKiernan questions whether he should join the mounting number of emigrants searching for greater opportunity elsewhere. McKiernan embarks on a hitchhiking odyssey with no money, no itinerary and no idea where he might end up each night. His mission: to give voice to those emerging from one of the most painful periods of economic and social turmoil in Ireland’s history. Engaging, provocative and sincere, Hitching for Hope is a testimony to the spirit of Ireland. It is an inspirational manifesto for hope and healing in troubled times.
Unlost: Roaming Through South America on a Spontaneous Journey
Author: Cory Mortensen
Publisher: White Condor LLC
ISBN: 9781735498164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Life doesn't come with a roadmap... And this is not a guidebookCORY MORTENSEN rode his bike from Chaska, Minnesota, to California. The experience ultimately changed his perspective on how life could be lived. So, rather than returning home after his adventure-back to the life unwanted-and equipped with absolutely no plan and nothing tying him down, he makes a simple phone call to quit his career and hitchhike south along the Pacific Coast Highway. Destination unknown. Sounds like a pretty good idea. One minute, I'm sitting in a cubicle, and the next, I'm haggling over a room in the Andes in a location of the world I never even knew existed. Where does a guy go when he has no place to be? Passport, tent, sleeping bag, and a favorite pair of Chaco sandals-enough gear for meandering from the Mexican border to the southern tip of South America, right? Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace Forty-hour bus rides, Mayan Ruins, five-dollar tattoos, mountain biking down the Road of Death, para-gliding the mountains of Mérida, trekking the Patagonian Andes. Spectacular sights, strange foods, unfamiliar smells, interesting people-and what would a trip like this be without a little dynamite?
Publisher: White Condor LLC
ISBN: 9781735498164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Life doesn't come with a roadmap... And this is not a guidebookCORY MORTENSEN rode his bike from Chaska, Minnesota, to California. The experience ultimately changed his perspective on how life could be lived. So, rather than returning home after his adventure-back to the life unwanted-and equipped with absolutely no plan and nothing tying him down, he makes a simple phone call to quit his career and hitchhike south along the Pacific Coast Highway. Destination unknown. Sounds like a pretty good idea. One minute, I'm sitting in a cubicle, and the next, I'm haggling over a room in the Andes in a location of the world I never even knew existed. Where does a guy go when he has no place to be? Passport, tent, sleeping bag, and a favorite pair of Chaco sandals-enough gear for meandering from the Mexican border to the southern tip of South America, right? Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace Forty-hour bus rides, Mayan Ruins, five-dollar tattoos, mountain biking down the Road of Death, para-gliding the mountains of Mérida, trekking the Patagonian Andes. Spectacular sights, strange foods, unfamiliar smells, interesting people-and what would a trip like this be without a little dynamite?
Anguish Language
Author: John Cunningham
Publisher: Archive Books
ISBN: 9783943620306
Category : Crises in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Anguish Language: Writing & Crisis considers language as a core aspect of the present social crisis. Initiated in a week-long workshop in Berlin in 2013, the Anguish Language Project surveys and develops the variety of forms of self-publishing, poetry, criticism, experimental writing, declamation and political speech that arose in the wake of the 20072008 financial crisis as a form of social struggle in response to crisis. The amply illustrated softcover publication includes workshop discussions, practices of crisis literature in seminars, presentations, walks, poetry, readings, drawing, writing experiments and performance. Contributors include Sean Bonney, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lisa Robertson, Anne Boyer, Anke Hennig, Karolin Meunier & Mattin, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, Frere Dupont, Amy DeAth, Catherine Wanger, Neinsager, Danny Hayward, Martin Hause, Wealth of Negations, and the Anguish Language Berlin and Copenhagen Groups. Edited by London-based writer/researcher John Cunningham, fiction and critical theory writer Anthony Iles, and writers Mira Mattar and Marina Vishmidt.
Publisher: Archive Books
ISBN: 9783943620306
Category : Crises in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Anguish Language: Writing & Crisis considers language as a core aspect of the present social crisis. Initiated in a week-long workshop in Berlin in 2013, the Anguish Language Project surveys and develops the variety of forms of self-publishing, poetry, criticism, experimental writing, declamation and political speech that arose in the wake of the 20072008 financial crisis as a form of social struggle in response to crisis. The amply illustrated softcover publication includes workshop discussions, practices of crisis literature in seminars, presentations, walks, poetry, readings, drawing, writing experiments and performance. Contributors include Sean Bonney, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lisa Robertson, Anne Boyer, Anke Hennig, Karolin Meunier & Mattin, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, Frere Dupont, Amy DeAth, Catherine Wanger, Neinsager, Danny Hayward, Martin Hause, Wealth of Negations, and the Anguish Language Berlin and Copenhagen Groups. Edited by London-based writer/researcher John Cunningham, fiction and critical theory writer Anthony Iles, and writers Mira Mattar and Marina Vishmidt.
The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind
Author: David Kopf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400869897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
As the forerunners of Indian modernization, the community of Bengali intellectuals known as the Brahmo Samaj played a crucial role in the genesis and development of every major religious, social, and political movement in India from 1820 to 1930. David Kopf launches a comprehensive generation- to-generation study of this group in order to understand the ideological foundations of the modern Indian mind. His book constitutes not only a biographical and a sociological study of the Brahmo Samaj, but also an intellectual history of modern India that ranges from the Unitarian social gospel of Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore's universal humanism and Jessie Bose's scientism. From a variety of biographical sources, many of them in Bengali and never before used in research, the author makes available much valuable information. In his analysis of the interplay between the ideas, the consciousness, and the lives of these early rebels against the Hindu tradition, Professor Kopf reveals the subtle and intricate problems and issues that gradually shaped contemporary Indian consciousness. What emerges from this group portrait is a legacy of innovation and reform that introduced a rationalist tradition of thought, liberal political consciousness, and Indian nationalism, in addition to changing theology and ritual, marriage laws and customs, and the status of women. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400869897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
As the forerunners of Indian modernization, the community of Bengali intellectuals known as the Brahmo Samaj played a crucial role in the genesis and development of every major religious, social, and political movement in India from 1820 to 1930. David Kopf launches a comprehensive generation- to-generation study of this group in order to understand the ideological foundations of the modern Indian mind. His book constitutes not only a biographical and a sociological study of the Brahmo Samaj, but also an intellectual history of modern India that ranges from the Unitarian social gospel of Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore's universal humanism and Jessie Bose's scientism. From a variety of biographical sources, many of them in Bengali and never before used in research, the author makes available much valuable information. In his analysis of the interplay between the ideas, the consciousness, and the lives of these early rebels against the Hindu tradition, Professor Kopf reveals the subtle and intricate problems and issues that gradually shaped contemporary Indian consciousness. What emerges from this group portrait is a legacy of innovation and reform that introduced a rationalist tradition of thought, liberal political consciousness, and Indian nationalism, in addition to changing theology and ritual, marriage laws and customs, and the status of women. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Saint and the Scientist
Author: Swami Jnanananda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879573017
Category : Hindu philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879573017
Category : Hindu philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror
Author: Susan J Bocock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228844495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror weaves together heart-warming and humorous stories focused on characteristic aspects of Italian culture-its traditions and rituals, its food, and of course its people and their engaging approach to 'living life in the piazza'. But, as we discover, these are just the backdrop for a more compelling narrative. While pursuing her insatiable passion for Italy, travelling to all twenty regions over fifteen years, Italy and its inhabitants helped Susan discover the real reason behind a growing attachment to this sun-drenched country. Beneath the obvious beauty and intriguing diversity that we learn about, she knew there was something deeper building her sense of connection to a country she otherwise had no connection with. A rear-view mirror perspective opened Susan's eyes to the underlying role of every-day aspects of Italian life in fostering those connections-the ties that were binding it all together for her, and her to it. Travel was the vehicle and Italy the teacher, helping to illuminate how we are all wired for connection, how we crave a sense of belonging, and how simple human encounters can feed our soul. Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror inspires us to reflect on our own journey, whether it involves travel or not, and in the process learn about our connection to this global community we call humanity. In fragile times, when our capacity to travel may be constrained and our ability to connect feels distant, the message is even more relevant.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228844495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror weaves together heart-warming and humorous stories focused on characteristic aspects of Italian culture-its traditions and rituals, its food, and of course its people and their engaging approach to 'living life in the piazza'. But, as we discover, these are just the backdrop for a more compelling narrative. While pursuing her insatiable passion for Italy, travelling to all twenty regions over fifteen years, Italy and its inhabitants helped Susan discover the real reason behind a growing attachment to this sun-drenched country. Beneath the obvious beauty and intriguing diversity that we learn about, she knew there was something deeper building her sense of connection to a country she otherwise had no connection with. A rear-view mirror perspective opened Susan's eyes to the underlying role of every-day aspects of Italian life in fostering those connections-the ties that were binding it all together for her, and her to it. Travel was the vehicle and Italy the teacher, helping to illuminate how we are all wired for connection, how we crave a sense of belonging, and how simple human encounters can feed our soul. Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror inspires us to reflect on our own journey, whether it involves travel or not, and in the process learn about our connection to this global community we call humanity. In fragile times, when our capacity to travel may be constrained and our ability to connect feels distant, the message is even more relevant.