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Crossing Boundaries: A Traveler’s Guide to World Peace

"Aziz Abu Sarah rightly reminds us that it's not more travel we should be after, but the right kind of travel-one that treads lightly, highlights multiple perspectives (including traditionally marginalized ones), and fosters personal transformation, which is the key to a better world." -Norie Quintos, Editor at Large, National Geographic Travel Media How can we bring together a world polarized by so many seemingly intractable conflicts? Through tourism? Yes, but a different kind of tourism, one that harnesses the power of travel to create a more connected and peaceful world. Aziz Abu Sarah argues that it's through one-on-one contact that we'll begin to heal divides. And he knows this firsthand. A former Palestinian radical, he cofounded a tour agency with a Jewish American that originated the Dual Narrative Tours, which are co-led by guides from different communities, including Israel and Palestine, Ireland, Vietnam, Colombia, and many other countries. A guide for going beyond museums and monuments to more transformative, sustainable, and responsible travel experiences, this book is for both the first-timer and seasoned veteran. Starting with his own moving story of creating connections across his divided hometown of Jerusalem and expanding to stories from all over the world, Abu Sarah offers tips on how to meet people naturally and safely, design an inclusive itinerary, shop to support the local economy, deal with setbacks, and much more. He shows that if you put down your phone and strike up a conversation, you can break through the walls that separate us. You'll discover shared values, build lasting relationships, and realize that ultimately far more unites us than divides us.

Aziz Abu Sarah (Author), Tristan Wright (Narrator)

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La isla del día siguiente

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. En 1988, hace ahora 28 años, cinco españoles, Kitín Muñoz, director de expedición, Kiko Botana, navegante, Pepe de Miguel, cámara de televisión, Juan Ginés García, teniente del ejército y responsable de logística y comunicaciones y yo, como fotógrafo y «conseguidor», realizamos una de las mayores proezas de la historia de la navegación actual: navegar en una balsa de totora, construida por los indios aimaras del Lago Titicaca, desde el puerto del Callao en Perú hasta la isla de Nuku-Hiva, en el Archipiélago de las Marquesas y posteriormente hacia la isla de Tahití, en el Archipiélago de la Sociedad. En total 5.491 millas náuticas (10.170 km), casi la misma distancia que separa las ciudades de Madrid y Hong Kong, en 72 días a bordo de una embarcación réplica exacta de las utilizadas por los navegantes preincaicos en el 200 d.C. Al regresar a España desde la Polinesia, mis cuadernos de viaje quedaron unidos por una cuerda, y escondidos en un oscuro cajón. En 1991, salieron tan solo de su escondite para ser encuadernados por un maravilloso artesano palestino de la Ciudad Vieja de Jerusalén, que con el mimo de sus arrugadas manos unió los dos cuadernos originales en un grueso y magnífico libro de piel roja de cordero. En su portada en letras doradas, aparece la leyenda: CUADERNO DE BITÁCORA. Por Eric Frattini y en su grueso lomo: Expedición URU – 1988. Tras cinco años de vivencias, guerras y hasta algún matrimonio en Oriente Medio, el cuaderno quedó ubicado en la sección de viajes de mi biblioteca compuesta por casi seis mil volúmenes. Allí permaneció en tranquilo y sabio reposo durante los siguientes veinte años. Ahora, cuando «ya no hablamos de corrido», como dice una muy querida amiga, y nuestros recuerdos comienzan a fallar, decido a mis 52 años que ya es hora de compartir con alguien más, aquella gran vivencia que fue la travesía de la Uru. Disfrútenla como lo hizo aquel joven de 24 años, que era yo por aquel entonces.

Eric Frattini (Author), Arturo Lopez, Arturo López (Narrator)

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Never Drive A Hatchback To Austria (And Other Valuable Life Lessons): The Wonderful Tale of a Brexit

If being a grown-up were as simple as holding down a job, buying a reliable car, finding the home of your dreams and living happily ever after, there’d be no need for this true story. But our mid-thirties author’s unorthodox approach and complete failure to accept the world as defined by adults was never going to make it quite so straightforward - especially when Brexit threw a spanner in the works. 'If you liked the works of Bill Bryson, Pete McCarthy or Tony Hawks, you will enjoy this.' - Amazon Review by Ian S Set against the backdrop of his ever-swelling grumpiness and the growing realization that he might never actually become a millionaire, this book follows him and his trusty hatchback as they travel from England to Vienna, seizing the chance to live in Europe before it got closed to Brits forever. It's a journey that takes him to Cyprus and Venice, Slovenia and Surrey, Belgium and Bonn. 'A hybrid of Victor Meldrew and Tony Hancock, with attitude!' - Direct Reader Comment

R.A. Dalkey (Author), R.A. Dalkey (Narrator)

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Helping You to Understand Recreational Vehicle

Aathina Dillard (Author), Poppy Royana (Narrator)

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Italy is My Boyfriend: A Memoir

Would wonderful beaches, great sunsets, wild friends, endless cocktails, and fabulous food be enough to keep this relationship together? Annette Joseph's years in Italy revealed this truth: Italy, in all its multifaceted, glorious history and culture has to be experienced in full. Over almost three decades, Italy has fed, entertained, confused, excited, lured, promised, lied, satisfied, occasionally disappointed, and utterly enchanted her. She's left, but can't stay away-she'll always return. Always. Just like a beloved partner . . . Italy Is My Boyfriend will take you through the journey of finding love, life, and a sense of home. While often times a lonely, challenging place, never once did the love for this special place waiver. See how one very determined lady finds her dream place in the Tuscan sun.

Annette Joseph (Author), Devon Sorvari (Narrator)

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Menno Moto: A Journey Across The Americas in Search of My Mennonite Identity

Across Latin America, from the plains of Mexico to the jungles of Paraguay, live a cloistered Germanic people. For nearly a century, they have kept their doors and their minds closed, separating their communities from a secular world they view as sinful. The story of their search for religious and social independence began generations ago in Europe and led them, in the late 1800s, to Canada, where they enjoyed the freedoms they sought under the protection of a nascent government. Yet in the 1920s, when the country many still consider their motherland began to take shape as a nation and their separatism came under scrutiny, groups of Mennonites left for the promises of Latin America: unbroken land and new guarantees of freedom to create autonomous, ethnically pure colonies. There they live as if time stands still?an isolation with dark consequences. In this memoir of an eight-month, 45,000 kilometre motorcycle journey across the Americas, Mennonite writer Cameron Dueck searches for common ground within his cultural diaspora. From skirmishes with secular neighbours over water rights in Mexico, to a mass-rape scandal in Bolivia, to the Green Hell of Paraguay and the wheat fields of Argentina, Dueck follows his ancestors south, finding reasons to both love and loathe his culture?and, in the process, finding himself.

Cameron Dueck (Author), Graham Rowat (Narrator)

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A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean: A Bicycle Journey Through the Northern Dominion of Oil

Recently recovered from his epic bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon coast, distinguished climate scientist David Goodrich sets out on his bike again to traverse the Western Interior Seaway?an ancient ocean that once spread across half of North America. When the waters cleared a geologic age ago, what was left behind was vast flat prairie, otherworldly rock formations, and oil shale deposits.As Goodrich journeys through the Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt National Park and across the prairies of the upper Midwest and Canada, we get a raw and ground-level view of where the tar sands and oil reserves are being opened up at an incredible and unprecedented pace. Extraordinary and unregulated, this "black goldrush" is boom and bust in every sense. In a manner reminiscent of John McPhee and Rachel Carson, combined with Goodrich's wry self-deprecation and scientific expertise, A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean is a galvanizing and adventure-filled listen that gets to the heart of drilling on our continent.

David Goodrich (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)

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Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America

Why take the shortest, most direct route through life, when you could choose the wiggliest, most mountainous one possible? Armed with a limited grasp of Spanish and determined to meet as many llamas as possible, Anna and her friend Faye set off on a 6-month journey along the spine of the largest mountain range in the world - the Andes. Beginning in the bustling city of La Paz, the duo pedal south - through dense jungle, across pristine white salt flats and past towering volcanoes, following the path of thundering glacial rivers to the snow-tipped peaks of Patagonia. Sleeping wild in their tents most nights, they endure 50-mph crosswinds and catastrophic crashes, and go head to head with one very determined saddle sore called Sally. By the time they make it to the southernmost tip of the continent, they have cycled 5,500 miles and ascended over 100,000 metres through the mighty Andes - equivalent to 11 times the height of Everest. Told from the seat of Anna's bicycle, Llama Drama is a witty and compelling account of life at its rawest and most rich. For anyone who has ever wanted to journey through the stunning natural landscapes of South America - this story is for you.

Anna Mcnuff (Author), Anna Mcnuff (Narrator)

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How to Become an English Teacher in China

After I spent eight years teaching, owning schools and traveling, I compiled the lessons I learned into a book with nothing but the facts(alright, and a couple fun stories) about becoming and succeeding as an English teacher in the world's largest English-teaching market today. All of the wonderful, convincing whys and the practical hows a native English speaker needs to excel at teaching English in China are in this book.

Cai Lonergan (Author), Cai Lonergan (Narrator)

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Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes

Where Am I Wearing? traces the author's journey from Honduras, to Bangladesh, to Cambodia, to China, and back again to discover the origins of his favorite clothes, including his sandals, pants, boxers, and t-shirt. It intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. It is a personal and intimate look at globalization and outsourcing, answering the questions: 'How are the lives of foreign workers affected?', 'Why are these workers so poor?', and 'How guilty should we feel?' Timmerman's travels to the people who made his clothes reveal that globalization isn't a black or white, good or bad, issue. It's much more complex. Where Am I Wearing? bridges the gap between global producers and consumers by introducing readers to the human elements of globalization names, personalities, hopes, and dreams with the economic and political elements serving as a backdrop. Whether it be bowling a few frames with workers in Cambodia, riding a roller coaster with workers in Bangladesh, or dining on their floor during a power outage, the book puts a face on the impersonal force of globalization. Not only does it show readers why they should care about the workers that make their clothes, it gives them a reason to care. In this revision, Kelsey completes the story by travelling back to a small village in Honduras to find a key garment worker from the first edition. However, he is now living in California. Kelsey heads north from Honduras to track him down, and discovers him living a double life, with a new, expecting, American wifewhile continuing to support his Honduran girlfriend and kids back home. The man shares his complex story of love and sacrifice, heartache and hope, and life as an illegal immigrant.

Kelsey Timmerman (Author), Mirron Willis (Narrator)

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Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization

In the end, we are all products of the roads we travel. In the case of Stephen Roach, its been the global road. He has criss-crossed the world as Morgan Stanleys first global economist, and most recently his journeys have increasingly led to Asia, at first because of events, but ultimately as a reflection of the allure and intrigue of this incredibly dynamic region for global investors. The global macro callboth for economies and financial markets became increasingly dependent on Asia. And getting Asia right has become Roachs personal obsession. This book represents more than 50 of Roachs key research papers, not just on Asia, but also how the region fits into the broad global context of the globalization of investing and financial markets around the world.

Stephen S. Roach (Author), Scott Woodside (Narrator)

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The Bombardier Story: From Snowmobiles to Global Transportation Powerhouse

Heard of Bombardier Inc.? No? How about Lear Jets, Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos? All made by Bombardier. Whos the world's largest rail manufacturer, for both railway and subway systems? Bombardier. Who is the third largest civil aircraft manufacturer in the world, after Boeing and the Airbus consortium? Yes, you guessed it-- Bombardier. In 1942, Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile and founded his company to manufacture them. From its humble beginnings as an entrepreneurial company in rural Quebec, led by an enterprising inventor, Bombardier Inc. has emerged as a global leader in the transportation industry. But that journey has not been without its ups and downs. There have been turbulent times for the company, not least of which occurred after September 11 and pushed Bombardier to the brink. The Bombardier Story tells the fascinating tale of this remarkable company, chronicling its rise, its challenges, and its ability to reinvent and turn itself aroundthanks to strong leadership and management strategy, succession planning, strategic diversification, and turnaround and acquisition artistryto endure as a global powerhouse in the transportation industry.

Larry Macdonald (Author), David Gutcheon (Narrator)

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