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Book Synopsis Bicycle Odyssey, A Pilgrimage to Discover the Real America by : Jim May
Download or read book Bicycle Odyssey, A Pilgrimage to Discover the Real America written by Jim May and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of our reflections as we bicycled 3440 miles across the United States, meeting people, sharing stories, being challenged by and reveling in the landscape and discovering the America that lives outside the media stereotype.
Download or read book Bicycle Odyssey written by Carla Fountain and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Carla Fountain set off on her year-long cycling journey, she expected new discoveries about the world. But she hadn’t anticipated a shocking rediscovery of herself. Bicycle Odyssey, a travel memoir, follows Carla and her husband, Dermot, as they embark on a challenging bicycling adventure that not only tests their survival skills, but ultimately their relationship. Armed with a will to persevere, they face unexpected danger and a cultural learning curve that nearly costs one of them their lives. In a time before modern conveniences, these two travelers off the beaten path lived disconnected from all communication. No cell phones to call home. No ATM for quick cash. No internet cafes to send a message. Relying solely on themselves, and a few helpful angels along the way, they experienced the lush beauty of Uganda, the welcoming people of Vietnam, the isolated mountains and hill tribes of Thailand, the terror of traffic in India, and the magic of Bali. Their journey did not end the moment they stepped foot at home. In fact, it continued for almost three decades as the couple digested the trip and acted on the lessons they learned. By telling their story, they hope to inspire and give confidence to others in pursuing dreams. Told with vivid observation about the world and the people in it, Bicycle Odyssey shares the story of a rich and enlightening pilgrimage.
Book Synopsis Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina by : Kristen Jokinen
Download or read book Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina written by Kristen Jokinen and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met scuba diving in Vietnam and fell in love. She was a real estate agent from Oregon, and he a financial analyst for Toyota in his native Finland. After hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from the border of Mexico to Canada they decided their next adventure would be a two year cycling trip covering 18,000 miles from Prudoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, despite never having cycled other than around the block. Only their starting and ending points were planned, in between was navigated daily by their sense of adventure and intuition. Locals in Mexico, Central America, and South America allowed them to camp in their fields and farms, invited them into their homes and families and acted as tour guides. Kristen and Ville held babies, attended quinceaneras, drank pulque, played soccer, and visited schools. They persevered unrelenting, punishing rain and wind, altitude sickness, dog attacks, bike accidents, and countless flat tires to cycle between the ends of the earth. Ville and Kristen Jokinen move through the world with a sense of curiosity and belief that kindness connects us to our shared humanity. Well-timed following a global pandemic, Joy Ride reconnects us to hope and the inspiration to pursue our wildest dreams. Kristen and Ville are love on wheels.
Book Synopsis The Archetype of Pilgrimage by : Jean Dalby Clift
Download or read book The Archetype of Pilgrimage written by Jean Dalby Clift and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Jungian archetypal theory, the authors explore the phenomenon of pilgrimage, as well as various types of pilgrimages, and suggest a way of understanding their meaning and variety.
Book Synopsis Walking with Stones: a Spiritual Odyssey on the Pilgrimage to Santiago by : William S. Schmidt
Download or read book Walking with Stones: a Spiritual Odyssey on the Pilgrimage to Santiago written by William S. Schmidt and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William S. Schmidt is an associate professor of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of two books and numerous articles in the fi elds of counseling and spirituality. He is the editor of the Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health published by Taylor and Francis.
Download or read book The Cave written by Tim Krabbe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning psychological thriller about friship, drugs, and murder from the author of The Vanishing. Egon Wagter and Axel van de Graaf met when they were both fourteen and on vacation in Belgium. Axel is fascinating, filled with an amoral energy by which the more prudent, less adventurous Egon is both mesmerized and repelled. Even as a teen, Axel has a strange power over those around him. He defies authority, seduces women, breaks the law. Axel chooses Egon as a friend, a friendship that somehow ures over time and ends up determining Egon's fate. During his university studies, Egon frequents Axel's house in Amsterdam, where there is a party every night and women fill the rooms. Though Egon chooses geology over Axel's life of avarice and drug dealing, he remains intrigued by his friend's conviction that the only law that counts is the law he makes himself. Egon believes that Axel is a demonic figure who tempts others only because he knows they want to be tempted. By the time he is in his forties, Egon finds himself divorced and with few professional prospects. He turns for help to Axel, who sends him to Ratanakiri, a fictional country in Southeast Asia. Axel gives Egon a suitcase to deliver-and Egon never returns. Utterly compelling and resonant, The Cave is an unforgettable story of betrayal in the spirit of Tim Krabbé's remarkable first novel, The Vanishing.
Book Synopsis Adventures in Spirituality by : Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Download or read book Adventures in Spirituality written by Robert P. Vande Kappelle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular culture, the goal of life is not happiness, but meaning. Those who seek happiness by trying to avoid or finesse conflict, suffering, doubt, and change will find life increasingly superficial. Feeling good is a flawed measure of life, but living meaningfully is transformative, for then one is living a developmental rather than a regressive agenda. The ego does whatever it can to make itself comfortable, whereas spirituality is about wholeness. Adventures in Spirituality represents the culmination of Dr. Vande Kappelle’s forty-year teaching career, incorporating in one volume his views on topics as varied as theology, Christology, biblical interpretation, spirituality, ethics, world religions, religion and science, faith and reason, and church history. Reared in Costa Rica, the son of missionary parents, Dr. Vande Kappelle describes his journey from belief to faith as a transition from precritical to postcritical understanding, from evangelical Christianity to what he calls “alternative orthodoxy.” Narrating the shift from first- to second-half-of-life experience, he introduces readers to core principles that shaped his values, thinking, and way of life. Useful for individual or group study, Adventures in Spirituality encourages readers to take risks with their lives and faith, affirming that this is how one grows spiritually.
Book Synopsis Pilgrimage on a Steelride by : Gary Paulsen
Download or read book Pilgrimage on a Steelride written by Gary Paulsen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in which the author describes the mid-life catharsis he experienced when he purchased a Harley-Davidson at the age of fifty-seven and embarked upon a long ride from his home in New Mexico to Alaska.
Book Synopsis Into Thin Places by : Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Download or read book Into Thin Places written by Robert P. Vande Kappelle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third volume of his "Adventures in Spirituality" trilogy, Dr. Robert Vande Kappelle travels from Amsterdam to Cairo in search of his cultural and spiritual roots, inviting readers to join him in exploring fabled places across the Mediterranean World. Despite the grave problems centered in this region, it is the birthplace of Western civilization and the source of the world's three guiding religions. Readers unfamiliar with the emergence and development of Western civilization will find Into Thin Places a compelling introduction; others will discover here a new perspective. Affirming the human quest for adventure, meaning, and wholeness, Professor Vande Kappelle beckons adventurers to enjoy the wonderful experiences described in the book's "travel entries." Those seeking historical and cultural perspective will want to examine the numerous "explanatory entries" scattered throughout the narrative. These vignettes expand and deepen the storyline, piquing curiosity about seminal events, persons, and places that helped shape Western sensibility. As Dr. Vande Kappelle points out in his closing chapter, our world is in a state of crisis, precipitated by numerous factors but primarily by the loss of the sacred. "Whether the current crisis is curable is debatable, but it will clearly require massive cultural reorientation. More importantly, it will require a transformation of the human spirit and a commitment of will." Into Thin Places encourages readers to find "thin places"--places transparent to the divine--in their own transformative journeys of discovery.
Download or read book Hegel's Ladder written by H. S. Harris and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-10 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume set. Print edition available in cloth only. Awarded the Nicholas Hoare/Renaud-Bray Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize, 2001 From the Preface: Hegel's Ladder aspires to be . . . a ‘literal commentary’ on Die Phänomenologie des Geistes. . . . It was the conscious goal of my thirty-year struggle with Hegel to write an explanatory commentary on this book; and with its completion I regard my own ‘working’ career as concluded. . . . The prevailing habit of commentators . . . is founded on the general consensus of opinion that whatever else it may be, Hegel’s Phenomenology is not the logical ‘Science’ that he believed it was. This is the received view that I want to overthrow. But if I am right, then an acceptably continuous chain of argument, paragraph by paragraph, ought to be discoverable in the text.
Book Synopsis The Delineator by : R. S. O'Loughlin
Download or read book The Delineator written by R. S. O'Loughlin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Shake the Sleeping Self by : Jedidiah Jenkins
Download or read book To Shake the Sleeping Self written by Jedidiah Jenkins and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure—the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world—as well as the internal journey that started it all. As he traverses cities, mountains, and inner boundaries, Jenkins grapples with the question of what it means to be an adult, his struggle to reconcile his sexual identity with his conservative Christian upbringing, and his belief in travel as a way to wake us up to life back home. A soul-stirring read for the wanderer in each of us, To Shake the Sleeping Self is an unforgettable reflection on adventure, identity, and a life lived without regret. This edition features a new afterword and a reader’s group guide. “[Jenkins is] a guy deeply connected to his personal truth and just so refreshingly present.”—Rich Roll, author of Finding Ultra “This is much more than a book about a bike ride. This is a deep soul deepening us. Jedidiah Jenkins is a mystic disguised as a millennial.”—Tom Shadyac, author of Life’s Operating Manual “Thought-provoking and inspirational . . . This uplifting memoir and travelogue will remind readers of the power of movement for the body and the soul.”—Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Secular Steeples 2nd edition by : Conrad Ostwalt
Download or read book Secular Steeples 2nd edition written by Conrad Ostwalt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of secularization in America, this book provides students with an innovative way of understanding the relationship between religion and secular culture. In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. Moving away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues, Ostwalt identifies areas of popular culture where secular and sacred views and objectives interact and enrich each other. The book demonstrates how religious institutions use the secular and popular media of television, movies, and music to make sacred teachings relevant. From megachurches to sports arenas, the Bible to Harry Potter, biker churches to virtual worship communities, Ostwalt demonstrates how religion persists across cultural forms, secular and sacred, with secular culture expressing religious messages and sometimes containing more authentic religious content than official religious teachings. An ideal text for anyone studying religion and popular culture, each chapter provides questions for discussion, a list of important terms and guided readings.
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Download or read book Bicycle Diaries written by David Byrne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his adventures as he pedals through and engages with some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on art, fashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many places are becoming more bike-friendly. Bicycle Diaries is an adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity, and humanity.
Book Synopsis Riding with the Blue Moth by : Bill Hancock
Download or read book Riding with the Blue Moth written by Bill Hancock and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his son, Will, in the 2001 airplane crash that took the lives of nine additional members of the Oklahoma State basketball team and support staff, Hancock's 2,747-mile journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic became more than just a distraction. It became a pilgrimage. Photos.
Book Synopsis MANIFESTING TIMELESS WISDOM by : Sushil Khadka
Download or read book MANIFESTING TIMELESS WISDOM written by Sushil Khadka and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash the Warrior Within: A Modern Guide to the Bhagavad Gita Drowning in daily struggles? Feeling lost in a world of uncertainty? There's a warrior within you, yearning to break free. The Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text revered for millennia, isn't just ancient wisdom – it's a battle cry for the modern soul. This powerful guidebook unlocks its secrets, transforming it from a dusty tome into your personal roadmap to inner strength. Imagine: Conquering stress and anxiety with battle-tested techniques for self-mastery. Unlocking your true potential with actionable steps to self-discovery and purpose. Navigating life's challenges with the unwavering wisdom of a celestial guide. This isn't religion; it's revolution. Forget dusty scriptures – the Bhagavad Gita offers practical tools for: Emotional intelligence: Master your emotions, not the other way around. Inner peace: Craft a sanctuary of calm amidst the daily storm. Resilience: Rise stronger from every setback, like a warrior forged in fire. Beyond boundaries, for everyone: The Bhagavad Gita transcends religion. Its message of conquering the internal battlefield - your mind - is a call to action for anyone seeking a meaningful life. Stop surviving; start thriving. Manifesting Timeless Wisdom is your key to unlocking the transformative power within the Bhagavad Gita. Embrace the warrior within, and discover the wisdom that can empower you to: Shatter limitations and claim your inner strength. Forge a path of purpose and fulfillment. Navigate life's storms with unwavering grace. Cultivate healthy relationships and build a life of meaning. This is your call to arms. Answer it. Pre-order your copy of Manifesting Timeless Wisdom today!
