Resultados para "The Brave" en Reportajes y artículos

Haunting forty-year-old injuries. Inexperienced in foreign travel. No Spanish-speaking ability. Yet, the Camino de Santiago whispered its call: Come walk 500 miles across the French Pyrenees and northern Spain. Alone. What could go wrong?

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first.

Newlywed Lisa Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life.

When a dream trip to perform Celtic music in the UK falls apart due to betrayal, S. Fraser Hale and his teenage grandson, Dan Arsenault, are left with non-refundable plane tickets and a tough choice. Instead of giving up, they embark on a hastily arranged guided bus tour of Scotland, turning disaster into an unexpected adventure. Scotland for the Brave is Hale's candid travel journal, documenting their journey through England and Scotland in 2003. This journal captures the realities of their whirlwind tour from crowded buses and expensive meals to the landscapes and historical sites.