Uncommon Traveler

Uncommon Traveler

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  • Author: Don Brown
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 0547349599
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 37

Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she’d read about in her father’s library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.


Vagabonding

Vagabonding

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  • Author: Rolf Potts
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • ISBN: 0812992180
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss • “Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life.”—Tim Ferriss, from the foreword There’s nothing like vagabonding: taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Now completely revised and updated, Vagabonding is an accessible and inspiring guide to • financing your travel time • determining your destination • adjusting to life on the road • working and volunteering overseas • handling travel adversity • re-assimilating back into ordinary life Updated for our ever-changing world, Vagabonding is an indispensable guide for the modern traveler.


Uncommon Courage

Uncommon Courage

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  • Author: Andrea T Edwards
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781737294405
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 480

Uncommon Courageis an invitation to be your courageous best self every day. It's also an antidote to the overwhelm, fear, and rage rolling around the world. This book opens a path to inner contentment, peace, and happiness, and a path to meaningful action. It brings you an opportunity to reflect. What if there was another way? What if we could do something about the bigger issues facing our world? What if we could make meaningful change? Well, we can. Despite today's turmoil-which we can utilize as a springboard to action-a transformational journey is possible for all of us. Uncommon Courage is as practical, funny, and grounded in optimism as Andrea herself, and it's your toolkit for a deep-dive journey towards joy, purpose, and the kind of inner transformation that will make a real difference in the world we all share. In this book, you will discover 108 interlinking strategies to shift your thinking, improve your mood, and lighten your heart. This book helps you take on anger, parenting, climate change, self-awareness, and career change. Some of the stories are funny, while others may lovingly push your buttons. Living a full life takes courage and this book is designed to help you build yours. Read it, reflect, laugh, and enjoy. Reactions from early readers: "Reading Uncommon Courage is like going to a dinner party and being seated with an experienced CEO, a spiritual guru, and a wise old grandma." Tara Moody, marketing and culture speaker, strategist, content creator "This is not a quick-fix self-help book, but rather a personal travel guide for you that will help you lead yourself and your life." Andrew Bryant, CSP, author, Self-Leadership: How to be a More Successful, Efficient and Effective Leader from the Inside Out "Written from the depths of her soul, Andrea's vulnerability encourages us to reflect on how we are living our lives." Shirley Taylor, CSP, author, Connecting the Dots to Inspire the Leader in You "Andrea's stories takes us through the streets of Calcutta, where she meets Mother Teresa, to being chased, robbed, and nurturedin some of the most dangerous countries on the planet-to learning unconditionally how to say YES to life. Epic." John Vincent Gordon, CEO Expat Choice Media "Uncommon Courage is a kick in the butt and a spark in the heart." Anupama Singal, author, SYZYGYmoments "These stories about travel, challenges, conflicts, people and planetary urgency remind me of sitting around a bonfire and absorbing experiences of the well-travelled wise. Uncommon Courage rocks!" Kevin Cottam, author, The Nomadic Mindset: Never Settle... for Too Long Andrea T Edwards CSP, the Digital Conversationalist, is an award-winning B2B communications professional with over 20 years' experience. She speaks on social leadership and integrity in the digital age to professionals around the world. Her travels currently have her living on an island with her husband, two sons, a dog, and two neurotic cats.


City of the Uncommon Thief

City of the Uncommon Thief

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  • Author: Lynne Bertrand
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0525555323
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 402

A dark and intricate fantasy, City of the Uncommon Thief is the story of a quarantined city gripped by fear and of the war that can free it. "Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in this city. I hope Errol Thebes is dead. We both know he is safer that way." In a walled city of a mile-high iron guild towers, many things are common knowledge: No book in any of the city's libraries reveals its place on a calendar or a map. No living beasts can be found within the city's walls. And no good comes to the guilder or foundling who trespasses too far from their labors. Even on the tower rooftops, where Errol Thebes and the rest of the city's teenagers pass a few short years under an open sky, no one truly believes anything uncommon is possible within the city walls. But one guildmaster has broken tradition to protect her child, and now the whole city faces an uncommon threat: a pair of black iron spikes that has the power of both sword and needle on the rib cages of men has gone missing, but the mayhem they cause rises everywhere. If the spikes are not found, no wall will be high enough to protect the city—or the world beyond it. And Errol Thebes? He's not dead and he's certainly not safe.


Uncommon Voyage

Uncommon Voyage

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  • Author: Laura Shapiro Kramer
  • Publisher: North Atlantic Books
  • ISBN: 9781556433702
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

Uncommon Voyage, first published in 1996, documented Laura Shapiro Kramer’s search for alternative treatments for her son Seth’s cerebral palsy in the face of an uncomprehending medical establishment. In this revised and expanded edition, the author redefines the main complementary therapies discussed earlier and explores new solutions she and Seth have discovered.


Uncommon Carriers

Uncommon Carriers

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  • Author: John McPhee
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9780865477391
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation.


Discovering Spain

Discovering Spain

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  • Author: Penelope Casas
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Spain
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 591

Describes points of interest in each region of the country and recommends hotels and restaurants.


Uncommon Genius

Uncommon Genius

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  • Author: Denise Shekerjian
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0140109862
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

Drawing on interviews with 40 winners of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—the so-called "genius awards"—the insightful study throws fresh light on the creative process.


The Uncommon Reader

The Uncommon Reader

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  • Author: Alan Bennett
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN: 1429934530
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 126

From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.


Uncommon Type

Uncommon Type

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  • Author: Tom Hanks
  • Publisher: Knopf Canada
  • ISBN: 0735273855
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!