"A trezentas milhas náuticas da costa, tenho frio, estou doente e com medo. Rezo por um alívio. Anseio por terra firme. E não posso deixar de me perguntar: Em que raio estava eu a pensar?
Quando Sue Williams zarpou para o Atlântico Norte, não foi uma crise de meia-idade. Ela não tinha qualquer afinidade com o mar. E não tinha um único osso de aventura no seu corpo. Na sequência de uma tempestade perfeita de acontecimentos pessoais, tornou-se subitamente claro: os seus filhos eram agora adultos; precisavam de liberdade para resolverem as coisas por si próprios; ela tinha de sair do caminho deles. E era agora ou nunca para o seu marido, David, realizar o seu sonho de atravessar um oceano. Por isso, ela também iria.
De Vela Ao Vento é a história da improvável aventura de uma mãe em alto mar e da sua profunda viagem interior, através da qual ela cresceu a acreditar que não há dom mais precioso do que a liberdade de traçar o seu próprio rumo, e que o risco é uma coisa boa... às vezes, pelo menos.
Uma história notável... heróica e inspiradora.” —MIRIAM TOEWS, autora de Women Talking.
De Vela Ao Vento foi traduzido e gravado pela Practice Portuguese LDA, em Lisboa, Portugal. A versão original em inglês, Ready to Come About, foi escrita por Sue Williams e publicada em 2019 pela Dundurn Press Ltd. Canadá. Este audiolivro é publicado por Sue Williams e produzido e distribuído de forma independente da Dundurn Press Ltd. A Dundurn Press Ltd. não faz representações ou garantias quanto ao seu conteúdo, qualidade ou disponibilidade."
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What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world.
Nick moved to Russia in 1998 to help build the British Embassy in Moscow, but ended up on the run with his wife and two children after leaking secrets from Vladimir Putin's one-time deputy. Hiding off grid on Australia's final frontier - remote beaches on the Dampier Peninsula on the far north Kimberley coast - the family faced crocodiles, sharks, snakes, raging bushfires and the devastating Cyclone Yvette, and survived only by catching fish and crabs and learning how to kill wild animals. It was a life-or-death move, but Nick felt he had no choice. Now, emerging from isolation, the family are finally ready to share their incredible story.
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"Three hundred nautical miles from shore, I‘m cold and sick and afraid. I pray for reprieve. I long for solid ground. And I can‘t help but ask myself, What the hell was I thinking?
When Sue Williams set sail for the North Atlantic, it wasn’t a mid-life crisis. She had no affinity for the sea. And she didn’t have an adventure-seeking bone in her body. In the wake of a perfect storm of personal events, it suddenly became clear: her sons were adults now; they needed freedom to figure things out for themselves; she had to get out of their way. And it was now or never for her husband, David, to realize his dream to cross an ocean. So she’d go too.
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Born in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is her birth mother.
When her adoptive mother tragically dies and she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is raped, sent to the brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her rapist in order to keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic abuse, but refusing to let her spirit be broken, Dianne finally discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is reunited with her birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather was a famous Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful leader in her own right, vowing to help others in any way she can.
Daughter of the River Country explores for the first time the devastation caused to Australia's Aboriginal Stolen Generation, who were forcibly placed with white families as part of a government assimilation programme.
'A compelling memoir about the power of love and staying the course.' LINDA BURNEY, the first Aboriginal Member of Australia's House of Representatives"
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