Author: Dave Bartemes
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477203931
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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We Call Her Kili New Years Day of 2012, was the departure day for a group of cancer survivors and caregivers to travel to Tanzania, Africa. While there, the 19 cancer survivors and 21 caregivers would attempt to climb Africas highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. These men and women were well aware of the challenge before them. Climbing Kilimanjaro is a difficult trek for healthy, young climbers. The anticipated six day climb would be through rain forest, over barren rock, and up some of the steepest and most difficult non-technical climbing in the world. The cancer survivors on this trip were from 33 to 73 years old and many of them bore the scars of surgeries, radiation, and other forms of treatment. This is the story of the eldest of these survivors.
Author: Eric George De Jong
Publisher: Blue Weaver Distributors
ISBN: 062088147X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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It is never too late to do something crazy wonderful. 'Your mid-life crisis doesn't have to be boring'. Eric De Jong, aged 60, took up mountain biking. The next thing he was making ‘pinky-promises’ with a fellow rider to ride from Cape Town to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Detouring off highways in search of roads less traveled, Cape Town to Kilimanjaro is about having fun, doing good and doing epic. Join Eric on his jaw dropping, foot cramping adventures through Africa and he’ll make you laugh, cry and will hopefully inspire.
Author: Jeff Belanger
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1623545110
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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"My own journey to the summit of Kilimanjaro opened me to a life of adventure, and this book brought me right back to the slopes of that magical mountain. An honest and affirming tale of embracing the unknown and the transformative power of nature, Jeff's journey is an invitation to all of us to get outside our comfort zone, see the world, and let it change us." —Josh Gates, Explorer, Host of Discovery's Expedition Unknown An honest and engaging account of one amateur hiker's journey to spiritual transformation as he climbs to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. After his brother-in-law Chris passed away, author Jeff Belanger made the decision to take the trip of a lifetime, both in honor of Chris and in pursuit of clarity about his own life and goals. The Call of Kilimanjaro is a day-by-day record of Belanger's ascent to the peak of Africa's highest mountain. By turns contemplative and irreverent, joyful and thoughtful, boyish and wise, this is a book for all ages - from 10 to 100 - and a memoir for armchair travelers with an interest in spirituality. By example, Belanger teaches us to take stock of our accomplishments, eye the lofty goals we've placed in front of ourselves, and push higher than we've ever dared, turning an honest eye toward past, present, and future, through the end of life and beyond.
Author: Sylvia Namusisi
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1643502336
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Author: Veronica Plumbe
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1839520256
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Happiness, our heroine, is a warthog piglet; clever, caring and courageous. She lives on a game reserve in Africa and is the narrator of our tale. Happiness is out one day with her family when her brother is snatched by a lioness, and in the ensuing panic to escape the same fate she is caught in a poacher's trap. Her human friend Peter, The Head Ranger, rescues her and takes her back to his animal sanctuary to recuperate. At Weaver House Animal Sanctuary Happiness makes many wild and wonderful friends and when she learns that some of them have lost loved ones to poachers she is determined to help put an end to this cruel practice. She concocts two wildly imaginative schemes and with the help of her new friends and a full moon she sets out on her daring mission. Even little warthog piglets can help to change the world...
Author: Elizabeth Wilde
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329205979
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Cythera, a sea pixie, needs help in saving her kinds' island home from sinking and letting loose a horrible beast that would terrorize the seas of the Crystal Realm. This story takes place right after "The Apprentice, The Swordsman, and The Impossible Mission", and Falina the Sorceress and her friends - Adriel the Druid and Kilian the Timewalker - set out on another great adventure that takes them from the hidden nooks of their world and across the unknown seas; encountering the forgotten past; sea monsters; pirates; mermaids; mysterious spirits; and much more!
Author: Jenn McKinlay
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399583750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The new president of the Briar Creek library board, Olive Davidson, has taken an intense dislike to library director Lindsey Norris. At the annual library fundraiser, Lindsey has a heated altercation with Olive that is witnessed by the entire community. When Olive is found dead, both Lindsey comes under suspicion for the murder. Now, despite her vow not to investigate crimes anymore, Lindsey has to catch the real killer before she has the book thrown at her. Print run 35,000.
Author: Margaret Trawick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520938879
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Enemy Lines captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of children in this conflict. Her beautifully written account, which includes voices of the teenagers and young adults who have joined the Tamil Tigers, brings alive a region where childhood, warfare, and play have become commingled in a world of continuous uncertainty.
Author: Timothy Zahn
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504096916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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An original collection of thirteen exciting science fiction & fantasy stories by the #1 bestselling author of the Star Wars Thrawn trilogy. He captivated readers with his creation of General Thrawn beginning with his #1 New York Times–bestselling Star Wars: Heir to the Empire. Now, Hugo Award–winning author Timothy Zahn shares thirteen of his masterful science fiction and fantasy stories, previously published separately in magazines and anthologies throughout his career, together for the first time in one original collection. Take a trip down memory lane with Zahn and prepare yourself for a journey across space and time where you will see wonders of technology, powerful magic, and chilling monsters. In “The Battle of Space Fort Jefferson,” a mild-mannered Park Service Ranger must deal with terrorists aboard a former space prison and quarantine center that’s now a largely deserted tourist attraction. Administrators from Earth discover an alien race’s secret to longevity in “A Lingering Death.” A wizard prepares for the army of the evil witch king in “A Touch of Rosemary.” Scientists discover the dangers of first contact in the novella Cordon Sanitaire. A jazz music aficionado travels two hundred years back in time to 1953 Pittsburgh in “For Love of Amanda.” A vampire helps Hollywood celebrities avoid the paparazzi in “Vampin’ Down the Avenue.” A werewolf and a mermaid encounter murder in the countryside in “Protection.” These stories and more await readers in this exciting collection, full of all the action, mystery, suspense, thrills, chills, and humor that have made Zahn a leader in science fiction and fantasy.
Author: Queenae Taylor Mulvihill
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411689917
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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In 1994 a small Los Angeles based film crew traveled to East Africa to begin shooting the film production of the award-winning film, MAANGAMIZI - THE ANCIENT ONE. WARRIORS: SPIRITUALLY ENGAGED was written with the intent to provide information to those seeking to know more about the Maangamizi experience: what led up to it and how it came about? It is a personal first-hand narrative of the journey told through the eyes of its author, screenwriter and film producer Queenae Taylor Mulvihill. Utilizing vivid, reflective and introspective excerpts from her personal journals, the struggles of her personal journey are shared with stark honesty. It is not merely a behind-the scenes film chronology of events. Its unique quality is the paranormal and interactive play of ancient Spirits whom the film process awakened. This team of filmmakers dared to go to a land rooted in spirits (active spirits) that for eons have grown accustomed to operating in a tenuous climate of adversity and confrontation.
