A Toubabou on the Horizon

A Toubabou on the Horizon
Author: Filippo Graglia
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-06-04
Genre:
ISBN:

"Who is better off? The person who looks for happiness through buying a new car or new clothes? Or he who has just enough to live on, and has time to spend laughing and joking with friends in the shade of a tree? Is there not a greater social dignity in the respect they pay to the elderly and the less fortunate?". Travelling gives us many answers, but it can also give rise to many questions. This is the story of the adventure of an engineer, a traveller. A car accident helps him understand that now is the time for self-fulfilment. The author starts from the house where he grew up in Northern Italy and goes on a journey far away from the tourist circuits. On his way, he travels over the Sahara and crosses the heart of the continent - the equatorial forest - until he reaches the farthest/southernmost point where the Atlantic and Indian oceans embrace. Overall, he covers 25,000 kilometres in 615 days and gets through 11 tyres and 8 chains. During the journey, he is arrested and even bedridden with malaria for twenty days. However, each person he meets provides a moment for exchange; forging bonds that are strengthened around a campfire. There is only the simplicity of life and a welcoming smile, in the search for new questions where it all began, in Africa. The book includes a chapter written by his mother, Carla Villata. Toubabou, with its variants (toubab, tubaap...), is a word used by many West African peoples to designate a white-skinned person, a European.

No Horizon Is So Far

No Horizon Is So Far
Author: Liv Arnesen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452961018

The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft’s dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek from the Norwegian sector all the way to McMurdo Station as they walked, skied, and ice-sailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all while towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1,700 miles of ice full of dangerous crevasses. Through website transmissions and satellite phone calls, Ann and Liv, two former schoolteachers, were able to broadcast their expedition to more than three million students in sixty-five countries to teach geography, science, and the importance of following your dreams.

The Horizon

The Horizon
Author: Suha Alkhamayseh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781480886247

Within each of us is a high, rugged mountain that is difficult to climb. But once you reach the summit, where there is nothing to hide the sun, you can meet yourself, find your horizon shining, and fly there freely, above all obstacles that might hinder you. Misty sky might hide the summit of a huge mountain, your doubts and fears may hide your strength. Know that the fog will clear up, and the mountains must appear. The Horizon presents a journey of self-discovery to awaken the strength in you a journey that you can follow yourself. In doing so, you can meet the superhero you are meant to be and achieve freedom from everything that holds you back. You can see life from a different perspective and gain a better understanding of how feelings and thoughts come to life within you. Most of all, you can learn how to release the person you are from the person you have been taught to be. By knowing and appreciating your strengths and power, you can define and conquer your fearsYou'll discover that all you need in life is the true, authentic you.

So Beyond the Horizon

So Beyond the Horizon
Author: Carolina Celas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9783899558401

Just like the ungraspable horizon, each of us is limitless. Uncover the infinite potential of your imagination with Beyond the Horizon.

Endless Horizon

Endless Horizon
Author: Dan Walsh
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009-02-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0760336040

Reports from the gonzo frontier of motorcycle travel--from Dakar to Ghana to South Africa, then on to North and South America--from the pre-eminent biker-rebel writer of our generation.

Horizon

Horizon
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0525656219

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

Beyond My Horizon

Beyond My Horizon
Author: Claude Regis Vargo
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2010-09
Genre:
ISBN: 1608445658

"Share the author's journey in Beyond My Horizon. Fall in love with the lifestyle of one of the world's most beautiful hotels; survive the sieges of the hell-holes of Hue and Khe Sanh, Viet Nam; and stand beneath the stone archway of Cornell University. Here is a tale of determination, drive, and a courageous ride through life that you will not want to stop reading. In this engaging, compelling, and inspiring book, Claude Vargo mesmerizes the reader. He eloquently describes his life and the hard work that transformed him from being a youthful academic failure to graduating summa cum laude in just two years in midlife from the Hilton College at the University of Houston while simultaneously attending Cornell. If Claude did it, you can too This book is chock full of humorous anecdotes, academic timesaving tips, and common-sense tricks to achieve your scholastic and life goals. Learn how to... - Graduate college debt free in two years - page 195 - Capitalize on your age and life experiences - page 181 - Arrest stress, PTSD, panic attacks, flashbacks and depression - page 176 - Speed read, speed type, and speak publicly - pages 151, 154 & 167 - Create KILLER CHEAT SHEETS that really work - page 129 - Construct photo flash cards with explosive recall - page 185 Beyond My Horizon is a must-read for anyone who has a real desire to do well in college, go back to college, or finally make a change and pursue any lifelong dream. Vargo's odyssey not only is a heartfelt and sincere effort to inspire the reader to go after life goals but also helps the reader believe he or she really can accomplish any goal. "Brutally honest, educationally humorous and insanely direct " ...John B. "Jack" Corgel, Professor, Cornell University

Always Another Horizon

Always Another Horizon
Author: Tina Olton
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2007-02-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0595863256

"Always Another Horizon is well written and a delightful way to spend a winter's evening or a rainy day." -Santana Magazine Full of rich detail and intriguing insight, Always Another Horizon: A Journey Around the World tells the story of one couple's voyage around the globe. For nearly eight years, author Tina Olton and her husband, Steve Salmon, sailed around the world on their forty-foot, ocean-going sailboat, Another Horizon. In that time, they traveled 45,000 miles, visited sixty-one countries, and crossed three oceans as well as countless seas, canals, lakes, and rivers. From Berkeley, California, the couple cast off their dock lines to head west through the Golden Gate. The whole world was before them-the ultimate traveler's dream. From the rich beauty of French Polynesia on Easter Sunday to the whitewashed beaches of Greece, Olton and Salmon embraced the world and its diversity. But the voyage also forced the couple to examine the limits of their determination, their ability to endure hardship, their tolerance for other people-regardless of behavior or beliefs-and their good will toward each other. Olton and Salmon soon realized that the journey would have a profound impact on their lives-or bring them to their knees. For maps and photos, see www.AlwaysAnotherHorizon.com.

Sailing to the Far Horizon

Sailing to the Far Horizon
Author: Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2012-08-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299201937

The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.