Resultados para "Baumgartner" en Biografías y memorias

Every summer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Nick Baumgartner went to work pouring concrete, taking on the harsh physical conditions of the construction trade to support his professional snowboarding dreams come winter. To limit travel time while he trained for the Olympics an hour and a half away from home, he lived out of a crusty, old construction van, parked anywhere he could find a spot. And in 2022, after seventeen years of failure—all the crashes, injuries, and personal setbacks—he won Olympic gold at forty years old, becoming the oldest Olympic snowboard medalist in history.

Le présent document délivre une approche sonore de l'Afrique par le biais d'une sélection des archives qui ont incarné pour des générations d'auditeurs le continent Africain tout entier. Les émissions de Robert Arnaut sur France Inter ont pénétré notre mémoire et dessiné les contours d'une Afrique sensible

A searing memoir of love and grief centered around the loss of Siri Hustvedt’s husband, Paul Auster. "Genuinely moving...Hustvedt’s book is like Didion’s [The Year of Magical Thinking] in tone...a grainy and resonant book about loneliness, despair, and confusion. It’s close to a howl."...