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Book Synopsis Around the World In A Wheel Chair by : John P. Roach Jr.
Download or read book Around the World In A Wheel Chair written by John P. Roach Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story about a beautiful brave woman with a serious disability affecting her balance and mobility who became determined to not let her recently discovered disability change her goals or the course and direction of her life. Around the World in Wheelchair is for every traveler, not just the disabled. The world wide observations combined with historical facts and never ending humor make this a valuable guidebook for any traveler. The author pushed this wheelchair around the world changing what could have been a couch potato scenario for the two them into an unforgetable adventure of a lifetime. See Other Books By This Author. Click here to return to www.JPRoach.org
Book Synopsis Wheelchair Around the World by : Patrick Simpson
Download or read book Wheelchair Around the World written by Patrick Simpson and published by Pentland Press (NC). This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational story recounts the international travels of the author and his wife Anne, who was confined to a wheelchair for much of their journey. Complete with photographs and valuable tips and resources, Simpson's work addresses the difficulties faced by physically challenged travelers, while capturing the vivid imagery and personality of the countless places the couple visited. Wheelchair Around the World can make the dream of international travel a reality to people who are handicapped.
Book Synopsis What Happened to You? by : Sylvia Longmire
Download or read book What Happened to You? written by Sylvia Longmire and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman. Four wheels. No limits. Between late 2015 and early 2021, award-winning accessible travel writer Sylvia Longmire visited 48 countries (34 of those solo), 176 cities, flew 444,714 miles, and spent 522 days away from home-all while completely relying on an electric wheelchair for mobility. Some call her crazy for traveling alone without the ability to walk, while others call her courageous for breaking the many stereotypes associated with disability. She just calls herself fortunate to have the opportunity to see so much of the world while her multiple sclerosis slowly progresses. But this book isn't just about the sights and landmarks and landscapes Sylvia has seen, from Singapore and Sydney to Dublin and Dubai. It's also about all the fascinating, curious, unusual, and helpful people she has met along the way, and the lessons they've taught her about the world-and herself. Some of her travel stories are funny, some are introspective, and others are downright gut-wrenching. But as you'll read in these pages, they serve as the ultimate answer to the most common of questions asked of wheelchair users everywhere: 'What happened to you?'
Book Synopsis Everything You Need to Know about Wheelchair Accessible Cruising by : Sylvia Longmire
Download or read book Everything You Need to Know about Wheelchair Accessible Cruising written by Sylvia Longmire and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a wheelchair user or someone with limited mobility? Have you always dreamed of going on a cruise, but weren't sure if such a trip was even possible? Have you already cruised, but want to know more about what accessible ships and itineraries are out there to explore? Then this guide is absolutely for you!Using her experience as an award-winning accessible travel writer and travel agent, Sylvia Longmire shares her years of personal experience and professional expertise in the cruising industry in this groundbreaking book. Having been on 20 cruises-16 as a wheelchair user and 12 solo-on all the major cruise lines, she explains the ins and outs of the entire cruising experience, from embarkation and shore excursions to pool lifts and theater seating. You'll also learn about each cruise line's "personality," as well as how to pick the right ship and itinerary for your accessibility needs. Not sure where to cruise? There are chapters about accessible cruises in every part of the world to help you decide.There are some aspects of accessible cruising you may not have considered, like how to rent mobility equipment for your cruise, or how to select the right travel insurance policy to make sure pre-existing conditions are covered. You'll find detailed information about these topics in Everything You Need to Know About Wheelchair Accessible Cruising and more-including invaluable listings of accessible shore excursion companies, tender ports around the world, and cruise line accessibility department contact information.Sylvia Longmire's latest book is a gold mine of information for wheelchair users who can't wait to embark on their first accessible cruise adventure, but just need that extra nudge to make it a reality.
Download or read book Rick Hansen written by Rick Hansen and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Rick Hansen was a carefree teenager hitchhiking home from a fishing trip, a kid who lived and breathed sports. But after the truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, Hansen was left a paraplegic. For some people that could have been the end. For Rick Hansen it was the beginning of a story that is at once sad and funny, heartbreaking and inspirational. Hansen takes you from the first painful days and frightening nights in hospital, through the gritty process of rehabilitation, to his return to competition as a world champion of wheelchair sports. It is the story of the Man in Motion tour—Rick Hansen’s incredible 24,901.55-mile wheelchair journey through 34 countries around the world. It is also the love story of Hansen and his wife, Amanda, a physiotherapist whom Hansen calls his “lifeline.” And it is a success story—Rick Hansen has raised millions of dollars for spinal cord research, rehabilitation and wheelchair sports as well as raised awareness about the disabled.
Download or read book Jessica's Box written by Peter Carnavas and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All the Way to the Top by : Annette Bay Pimentel
Download or read book All the Way to the Top written by Annette Bay Pimentel and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Schneider Family Book Award Young Children's Honor Book (American Library Association) Experience the true story of lifelong activist Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins and her participation in the Capitol Crawl in this inspiring autobiographical picture book. This beautifully illustrated story includes a foreword from Jennifer and backmatter detailing her life and the history of the disability rights movement. This is the story of a little girl who just wanted to go, even when others tried to stop her. Jennifer Keelan was determined to make a change—even if she was just a kid. She never thought her wheelchair could slow her down, but the way the world around her was built made it hard to do even simple things. Like going to school, or eating lunch in the cafeteria. Jennifer knew that everyone deserves a voice! Then the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law that would make public spaces much more accessible to people with disabilities, was proposed to Congress. And to make sure it passed, Jennifer went to the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC to convince them. And, without her wheelchair, she climbed. ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP! A Rise: A Feminist Book Project Nominee A Junior Library Guild Selection All the Way to the Top is perfect for: Elementary school teachers looking for books to supplement disability rights curriculum and the history of the ADA (find a free Common-Core Aligned Educator Guide at www.sourcebooks.com) Parents looking for social justice picture books, books on activism and for young activists, and inspiring books for girls Parents, teachers, librarians, and guardians looking for beautifully illustrated, inspirational and educational books for young readers in their life
Book Synopsis Blogging While Disabled by : Sylvia Longmire
Download or read book Blogging While Disabled written by Sylvia Longmire and published by PreJax Press. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a story to tell? Do you know a lot about a particular topic? Are traditional employment options out of reach because of your disability? Then this is the book for you! Too many people assume that wheelchair users have little to contribute to the professional world, or are unable to work simply because of their disability. We know nothing could be further from the truth; we just need to be presented with the opportunity. In ‘Blogging While Disabled,’ I will help you create that opportunity by showing you how to share your message with the world—and how to make money doing it. One of the best ways to start earning income when your wheelchair keeps you at home is by writing. Some people think you have to be the next Ernest Hemingway to start a blog, but all you really need is an idea and some motivation. This book will help you discover your passion, as well as your voice for expressing it. You will learn the nuts and bolts of creating a blog, from coming up with a name to ideas for blog posts. You will also learn strategies for helping potential readers discover you, including social media sharing and search engine optimization. There are also plenty of links and resources available throughout the book when you’re ready to dive deeper into the world of professional writing. Award-winning accessible travel writer and author Sylvia Longmire has been writing professionally since 2003, and working from home as a full-time wheelchair user since 2014. In that time, she has developed a highly successful career writing about wheelchair travel, disability advocacy, and border security. She has also started several successful businesses to create a brand that is now recognized around the world. In ‘Blogging While Disabled,’ Sylvia shares everything she’s learned that has made her a successful writer who just happens to use a wheelchair.
Download or read book Seven Wheelchairs written by Gary Presley and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959, seventeen-year-old Gary Presley was standing in line, wearing his favorite cowboy boots and waiting for his final inoculation of Salk vaccine. Seven days later, a bad headache caused him to skip basketball practice, tell his dad that he was too ill to feed the calves, and walk from barn to bed with shaky, dizzying steps. He never walked again. By the next day, burning with the fever of polio, he was fastened into the claustrophobic cocoon of the iron lung that would be his home for the next three months. Set among the hardscrabble world of the Missouri Ozarks, sizzling with sarcasm and acerbic wit, his memoir tells the story of his journey from the iron lung to life in a wheelchair. Presley is no wheelchair hero, no inspiring figure preaching patience and gratitude. An army brat turned farm kid, newly arrived in a conservative rural community, he was immobilized before he could take the next step toward adulthood. Prevented, literally, from taking that next step, he became cranky and crabby, anxious and alienated, a rolling responsibility crippled not just by polio but by anger and depression, “a crip all over, starting with the brain.” Slowly, however, despite the limitations of navigating in a world before the Americans with Disabilities Act, he builds an independent life. Now, almost fifty years later, having worn out wheelchair after wheelchair, survived post-polio syndrome, and married the woman of his dreams, Gary has redefined himself as Gimp, more ready to act out than to speak up, ironic, perceptive, still cranky and intolerant but more accepting, more able to find joy in his family and his newfound religion. Despite the fact that he detests pity, can spot condescension from miles away, and refuses to play the role of noble victim, he writes in a way that elicits sympathy and understanding and laughter. By giving his readers the unromantic truth about life in a wheelchair, he escapes stereotypes about people with disabilities and moves toward a place where every individual is irreplaceable.
Book Synopsis 101 Accessible Vacations by : Candy Harrington
Download or read book 101 Accessible Vacations written by Candy Harrington and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading expert in accessible travel, this authoritative guide highlights vacation destinations for disabled travelers. Harrington organizes chapters by vacation style, allowing readers to tailor a holiday to their own specifications.
Book Synopsis Rick Steves' Easy Access Europe by : Rick Steves
Download or read book Rick Steves' Easy Access Europe written by Rick Steves and published by Avalon Travel Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping people with limited mobility travel successfully and comfortably through Europe, this edition focuses on Amsterdam, Bruges, London, Paris, and the Rhine. Photos and maps are included.
Book Synopsis The world is round ... Disabled?! So what!!! by : Karin Bretz
Download or read book The world is round ... Disabled?! So what!!! written by Karin Bretz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 106 days by wheelchair on a cruis ship around the world
Download or read book Sitting Pretty written by Rebekah Taussig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.
Book Synopsis What Can a Body Do? by : Sara Hendren
Download or read book What Can a Body Do? written by Sara Hendren and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built. In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it—from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture—Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
Book Synopsis Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door by : Rick Steves
Download or read book Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 1385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe. With Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door, you'll learn how to: Plan your itinerary and maximize your time Pack light and right Find good-value hotels and restaurants Travel smoothly by train, bus, car, and plane Avoid crowds and tourist scams Hurdle the language barrier Understand cultural differences and connect with locals Save money while enjoying the trip of a lifetime After 30+ years of exploring Europe, Rick considers this travel skills handbook his life's work, and with his expert introductions to the top destinations in Europe, choosing your next trip will be easy and stress-free. Using the travel skills in this book, you'll experience the culture like a local, spend less money, and have more fun.
Book Synopsis Round the World in a Wheelchair by : Doreen Webster
Download or read book Round the World in a Wheelchair written by Doreen Webster and published by Pen Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in 1996, for the author's and her husband Noel, life would never be quite the same again following a stroke that left him paralysed down his right side. For lots of people this might be an encumbrance that would prevent them from enjoying life to the full, but for this couple it seems nothing is too much.
Download or read book We Carry Kevan written by Kevan Chandler and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about friendships and commitment to one another so incredible you wouldn't believe it if it wasn't true. Kevan is just one of the guys. It's impossible to know him and not become a little more excited about life. He is an inspiring man permeated by joy, unafraid of sorrow, full of vitality and life! His sense of humor is infectious and so is his story. He grew up, he says, at "belt-buckle level" and stayed there until Kevan's beloved posse decided to leave his wheelchair at the Atlanta airport, board a plane for France, and have his friends carry him around Europe to accomplish their dream to see the world together! Kevan's beloved posse traveled to Paris, England, and Ireland where, in the climax of their adventure, they scale 600 feet up to the 1,400-year-old monastic fortress of Skellig Michael. In WE CARRY KEVAN the reader sits with Kevan, one head-level above everyone else for the first time in his life and enjoys camaraderie unlike anything most people ever experience. Along the way they encounter the curiosity and beauty of strangers, the human family disarmed by grace, and the constant love of God so rich and beautiful in the company of good friends. WE CARRY KEVAN displays the profound power of friendship and self-sacrifice.
