Author : Michael Perkins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1847289355
True Life and Death Stories of Hawaii's Hidden Dangers-with Advice From Rescue Experts on How to Enjoy the Islands Safely.
Author : Peter Rudiak-Gould
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781402766640
Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first blush, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful and laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould’s efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh reality. But Rudiak-Gould goes beyond the personal, interweaving his own story with fascinating political, linguistic, and ecological digressions about the Marshall Islands. Most poignant are his observations of the noticeable effect of global warming on these tiny, low-lying islands and the threat rising water levels pose to their already precarious existence. An Eat, Pray, Love as written by Paul Theroux, Surviving Paradise is a disarmingly lighthearted narrative with a substantive emotional undercurrent.
Author : Susan Willoch Shaver
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2011-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1456856944
Follow a woman who moves into a new town with great expectations—only to be met by a ridiculous set of people. The story begins when a forty-seven year old Southern woman moves to Sarasota, Florida (also known as Paradise), and finds it to be anything but. This book looks at the hilarity and the absurdity of horrible, loud, criminal neighbors; an inappropriate, horny cop; a jealous, bitchy wife; other neighbors behaving “badly”; an ineffective and dishonest homeowners’ association; and all things redneck and white trash encountered in this odd, unfriendly, rude, strange little town. Explore a fascinating parallel universe as they find out what Surviving ´´Paradise´´ entails.
Author : Ryan Starr
Publisher : Starr talking story
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Ryan Starr is a backpacking legend... with a heart for our world and its many wonders. This camping novice became a survival expert as he wandered the globe taking every risk that fell his way. With humor, persistence, and a good bit of luck, Ryan lived to tell the tale. He’s not sure just how many times he stared death in the face, but Ryan would do it all again in a heartbeat. He’s left bits and pieces of his self and his psyche on uninhabited islands from the Florida Keys to New Zealand, and in the lush peaks and valleys of Hawaii and Central America. The pages of this book convey the pulse-quickening beauty of New Zealand, and the sometimes poignant, sometimes laughable escapades Ryan has chosen to reveal.
Author : Ryan Starr
Publisher : Starr talking story
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Ryan Starr is a backpacking legend with a heart for this world and it’s many wonders. He wandered the globe taking every risk that fell his way, and lived to tell the tale.
Author : Ryan Starr
Publisher : Starr talking story
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Ryan Starr is a backpacking legend... with a heart for our world and its many wonders. This camping novice became a survival expert as he wandered the globe taking every risk that fell his way. With humor, persistence, and a good bit of luck, Ryan lived to tell the tale. He's not sure just how many times he stared death in the face, but Ryan would do it all again in a heartbeat. He's left bits and pieces of his self and his psyche on uninhabited islands from the Florida Keys to New Zealand, and in the lush peaks and valleys of Hawaii and Central America. Could you live for a year with just a bit of resourcefulness and the stuff you can fit in your backpack? Ryan did. And he's recreated every one of his adventures in this wild, wacky, wonderful book describing how he met the challenge of surviving paradise. This paperback is a collection of all four books in the Surviving Paradise series. It includes: ★ A Year on a Deserted Island in the Florida Keys ★ Backpacking the Hawaiian Islands ★ Discovering New Zealand ★ Backpacking Central America
Author : Ryan Starr
Publisher : Starr talking story
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Ryan Starr is a backpacking legend... with a heart for our world and its many wonders. This camping novice became a survival expert as he wandered the globe taking every risk that fell his way. With humor, persistence, and a good bit of luck, Ryan lived to tell the tale. He’s not sure just how many times he stared death in the face, but Ryan would do it all again in a heartbeat. He’s left bits and pieces of his self and his psyche on uninhabited islands from the Florida Keys to New Zealand, and in the lush peaks and valleys of Hawaii and Central America. In this book Ryan reveals the majesty and mysteries of the Hawaiian Islands as he sets out to hike and bike the circumference of the islands. From lava tubes to forbidden valleys, he's trekked them all. ..................................... This stand-alone book is included in the 4-book collection SURVIVING PARADISE: ★ A Year on a Deserted Island in the Florida Keys ★ Backpacking the Hawaiian Islands ★ Discovering New Zealand ★ Backpacking Central America
Author : Ryan Starr
Publisher : Starr talking story
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2021-06-19
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Ryan Starr is a backpacking legend... with a heart for our world and its many wonders. This camping novice became a survival expert as he wandered the globe taking every risk that fell his way. With humor, persistence, and a good bit of luck, Ryan lived to tell the tale. He’s not sure just how many times he stared death in the face, but Ryan would do it all again in a heartbeat. He’s left bits and pieces of his self and his psyche on uninhabited islands from the Florida Keys to New Zealand, and in the lush peaks and valleys of Hawaii and Central America. With just the gear he could carry on his kayak, Ryan set out to live for a year on a deserted island just off the Florida Keys. The happiness and hardships he experienced will surprise and delight. Whether it was a sinking boat or a tropical storm, Ryan’s resilience saw him through. He has recorded it all here for you in his witty, occasionally crusty, style. ..................................... This stand-alone book is included in the 4-book collection SURVIVING PARADISE: ★ A Year on a Deserted Island in the Florida Keys ★ Backpacking the Hawaiian Islands ★ Discovering New Zealand ★ Backpacking Central America
Author : Lizzie Johnson
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593136381
"The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds ... A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again"--
Author : Leah Chishugi
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 9781844086580
An inspirational and moving memoir from a woman who survived the Rwandan genocide and uses her experiences to become an agent of change Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but moved at the age of 17 to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. When in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, she escaped only after being left for dead under a pile of corpses. She fled with her son to Uganda, then South Africa, where she was miraculously reunited with her husband whom she believed dead. Leah finally settled in the UK where she was granted asylum and became a nurse. After her mother died, Leah decided to set up a charity to help the women and children of eastern Congo--victims of continuing war atrocities. This is a deeply courageous narrative of one woman's survival of personal trauma and finding a greater purpose in life through devotion to the service of others.
