Resultados para "Morgan" en Aventureros, exploradores y supervivencia

"Jeg sidder med slangekranierne som en rosenkrans og kan ikke lade være med at undre mig. I morges ganske tidligt, før solen endnu var kommet over skovranden, sloges jeg med moskitoerne i en kano på Amazonfloden efter aftenen i forvejen at have taget afsked med høvdingen, der gav mig denne kæde ... I morges ved Amazonfloden! Tanken vender tilbage til mig som en besættelse herude over Atlanterhavet." "I morges ved Amazonfloden" er en samling af eventyrer Arne Falk-Rønnes indtryk fra sine 12 rejser i Latinamerika.

A memoir of homecoming—Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.

For many, the past few years have been defined by climate disaster. Stories about once-in-a-lifetime hurricanes, floods, fires, droughts, and even snowstorms are now commonplace. But dramatic weather events are not new and Northeaster, Cathie Pelletier's breathtaking account of the 1952 snowstorm that blanketed New England, offers a valuable reminder about nature's capacity for destruction as well as insight into the human instinct for preservation.

On the precipice of starting her adult life, aged eighteen, Sophie, a rebellious and incorrigible wild child, crashed her car and was instantly paralysed from the chest down. Rushed to hospital, everything she had dreamed for her life was instantly forgotten and her journey to rediscover herself and build a different life began. But being told she would never walk again would come to be the least of her concerns.

Shattered but not broken, Shaneé Morgan, shares the raw and uncut story of her journey through childhood trauma, tragedy, resilience, and healing. This shocking yet powerful memoir recalls the author’s childhood growing-up in 5th Ward Houston, Texas also known as “The Nickel,” in the midst of the crack epidemic. From the crack house to the school house, Shaneé recounts the tragic events that could’ve claimed her life, or the lives of her family if not for the grace and mercy of God.

It’s 1972 when free-spirited “good girl” Fay takes off on a three-year journey around the US and Europe in search of jobs, apartments, and boyfriends. She soon finds navigating her way through the real world will take a skill set her Sunday schoolteacher never taught her. Taking off on a three-year journey across America and Europe in the early 1970s, Fay quickly learns there are three things she needs in order to be happy—an apartment, a job, and a boyfriend, a.k.a., "the holy trinity”.

The Copper Scroll Project tells the story of an Oklahoma arson investigator, Jim Barfield, who sets off on a decade-long quest to uncover Qumran’s secrets - the lost treasures of the Jerusalem temple - and show the world that the Dead Sea Scrolls were merely the tip of the archaeological iceberg. Could its secrets hold the keys to one of the greatest treasures in Israel’s history?

A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual physical and sexual abuse. Broken in mind, body and spirit and completely isolated from the rest of the world, Hannah thinks she’ll never find the...

Peter has motor neurone disease, a condition universally considered by doctors to be terminal. It will destroy his nerve cells, and he is told that within an average of two years, it will take his life, too. But, face to face with death, he decides there is another way. Using his background in science and technology, he navigates a new path, one that will enable him not just to survive but to thrive.

Repossess a jet from Lagos? That will be easy, thought Mike. Murderous pursuers? Nigerian air force trying to shoot him down? A Mossad kidnapping thrown in the mix? No, definitely not easy!

Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide. This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and listeners striving to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror. Is it possible to find meaning after enduring crimes against humanity? Can people heal after trauma?