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Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road

Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance to cash in their chips and settle into a comfy armchair, Ollivier still longed for more. Searching for inspiration, he strapped on his gear, donned his hat, and headed out the front door to hike the Way of St. James, a 1400-mile journey from Paris to Compostela, Spain. At the end of that road, with more questions than answers, he decided to spend the next few years hiking another of history's great routes: the Silk Road. Out of Istanbul is Ollivier's stunning account of the first part of that 7,200-mile journey. The longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time, the Silk Road is in fact a network of routes across Europe and Asia, some going back to prehistoric times. During the Middle Ages, the transcribed travelogue of one Silk Road explorer, Marco Polo, helped spread the fame of the Orient throughout Europe. Ollivier's journey, far from bragging about some tremendous achievement, humbly takes the listener on a colossal adventure of human proportions, one in which walking itself, through a kind of alchemy, fosters friendships and fellowship.

Bernard Ollivier (Author), Nigel Patterson (Narrator)

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Sailing Elysium

On a boat they built themselves, two determined souls chartered a life of dreams and discovery. Helen Olson and her husband, Elmer, retired in their late forties to sail the Pacific Ocean and Oceania from 1979 - 1989 on a fifty -foot yacht they built themselves. 'Sailing Elysium' is a personal account of that ten year adventure, as they immersed themselves in the cultures and traditions of the local people, venturing to twenty-seven major stay-overs in twenty-one countries. They left their secure moorage to sail down the coast of North America, crossing the Pacific Ocean from Panama, while stopping at the many islands to the south and west. They enjoyed inviting people from diverse populations into their home on the sea. Each stop added to their pleasure and increased their knowledge of the unique cultures of the island inhabitants. Most of the time they stayed long enough to develop lasting friendships. Helen says, ' Fear did not divide us from the understanding we gained.' Helen and Elmer's openness, curiosity, and eagerness to hear people's stories is what allowed their friendships to form around the world. 'Sailing Elysium' not only takes the reader to these far-away places, it gives a voice to the fascinating stories shared by the indigenous people met along the way.

Helen Olson (Author), Helen Olson (Narrator)

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Marketing Strategy for Hospitality Property’s - 2023: Hotels-Resorts-Inns-Bed and Breakfasts-Vacatio

Would you like the skills vital to effectively communicate with your ideal guest? Gone are the days when all you had to do is place brochures in your local tourist information centre or put an open sign on your front door. With this course, you will benefit by learning a marketing mix that will highlight your hospitality property and keep you ahead of your competition. Included - Developing Your Marketing Strategy - Branding –What Makes You Stand Out - How to Find Out Your Customer's Demographics and Psychographics - Creating a Memorable Tagline or Slogan that Sticks - Power of Colours - Upgrade Your Logo - Creating an Effective Website - Email & Guest List Building - Why Build an Email List - Creating Free Gifts to Build Your List - Writing Autoresponder Emails That Convert - Exit Popups to Build Your List - Choosing Your Visual Branding - Creating a Successful Blog for Your Property - Introduction to Social Media - Marketing on YouTube - Benefits of Facebook for Business - How to be Successful on Twitter - How to Use LinkedIn - Pinterest for Your Property - Instagram for Your Business - Customer Giveaways - The Benefit of Online Newsletters - How to Make Surveys Work for You You can view this section as an individual course or watch it as part of the “Your Guide to Owning & Operating a Hospitality Property – Successfully” course. Any downloads or checklists mentioned in this audiobook can be found at https://keystonehpd.com/marketingstrategy If you want to attract your ideal guest, then don’t hesitate. Sign up now!

Gerry Macpherson (Author), Gerry Macpherson (Narrator)

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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death

After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference? Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death—how people get into trouble and how they get out again (or not)—Deep Survival takes us from the tops of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans to the workings of the brain that control our behavior. Through close analysis of case studies, Laurence Gonzales describes the “stages of survival” and reveals the essence of a survivor—truths that apply not only to surviving in the wild but also to surviving life-threatening illness, relationships, the death of a loved one, running a business during uncertain times, and even war. In the end, he finds, it is what’s in your heart, not what’s in your pack, that separates the living from the dead. Fascinating and absolutely essential for anyone who hikes in the woods, this book will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors.

Laurence Gonzales (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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A Drop in the Ocean

Tales of great heroism and daring at sea are all well and good. But this isn’t one of them. Totally free of hyperbole and exaggeration, A Drop in the Ocean is an honest and genuine account of what it is really like to cross a very big ocean, on a very small sailboat, for the very first time...When you raise the sails and head into the unknown, you take on the most fascinating challenge of your life. But you also embark upon a voyage of an entirely different nature. As the initial fear of the unknown slowly gives way to the daily rhythm of life at sea, something entirely unexpected happens. This book is one woman’s attempt to describe the nature and effect of this subtle transformation.

Jasna Tuta (Author), Barbara Tanze (Narrator)

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Brave Men

The classic, human-scale account of the soldiers who fought in World War II, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie Pyle-America's most famous and most loved war correspondent-featuring a new introduction by David Chrisinger, the author of the new Ernie Pyle biography, The Soldier's Truth A Penguin Classic When America entered World War II, Ernie Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches. Long before television and the internet beamed combat footage directly to us, his dispatches from the front lines augmented the coverage of the war's politics, strategies, and macro-level mobilizations to give the American public what he called his "worm's-eye view" of the day-to-day life of the war. He captured, as John Steinbeck described it in Time magazine, the "war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food . . . and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage-and that is Ernie Pyle's war." A number-one bestseller upon its publication in 1944, Brave Men remains unmatched in its clarity, sympathy, and grit as a portrait of America's boys who fought in Europe, and lives on as a testament to the enduring value of embedded journalism in reporting the truth.

Ernie Pyle (Author), David Chrisinger, Michael Brainard (Narrator)

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A Stranger's Pose

Through stories remembered and imagined, and images by acclaimed photographers, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters in more than a dozen African towns. Iduma blends memoir, travelogue and storytelling in these fragments of a traveller's journey across several African cities. Inspired by the author's travels with photographers between 2011 and 2015, the author's own accounts are expanded to include other narratives about movement, estrangement, and intimacy. These include: an arrest in a market in N'djamena, being punished by a Gendarmes officer on a Cameroonian highway and meeting the famed photographer Malick Sidibe in Bamako.

Abraham Oghobase, Emmanuel Iduma (Author), Tony Tambi (Narrator)

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RV Passive Income - The Ultimate Guide: Real and Proven Ways to Make Money While Full-Time RVing - I

Dreaming of traveling the country and living the RV lifestyle, but unsure where to start?Have you heard about the full-time RV life, but have never been RVing before? Do you love traveling, meeting people, and seeing new places? Are you craving a life that feels more relaxing and meaningful? The RV lifestyle could be the answer. You’ve got a steady paycheck from your 9 to 5 job and that’s cool. But deep down inside you know you’ve always wanted more. More money. More freedom. More flexibility. And so you finally decide that it’s time to take action. This book breaks down the top ideas for how to generate passive income so you can finally get more than you’ve ever dreamed of. If you’re looking for more travel, adventure or freedom on the open road, this guide will help you maximize your enjoyment of the RV lifestyle so that you can get where you are going safely. You’ll learn everything you need to know to prepare for RV life, buy the right RV and succeed on the road. Save money, avoid mistakes, and jump-start your life of freedom today! Your Dreams Matter. Start Small - Start Now! Here's a little sneak preview of what you’ll get: - Top 10 Things Every New Rv Owner Should Know - The Truth About Passive Income - Top 10 law of attraction SECRETS to manifest your dream life - RV Buying Mistakes You Need to Avoid! - 5 Common RV Problems and How to Fix Them! - 20+ Remote Jobs You Can Do Right Now! - Making Money on You Tube - Retail Arbitrage - 3 Ways to Earn Passive Income as a Freelancer You only have one life to live. Make it count.

Fred Morgan (Author), Mark Williams (Narrator)

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Love and Common Sense: Short Stories From Around the World to Challenge Your Mind and Ignite Your Co

"Love and Common Sense" is the the award-winning collection of seventy intriguing short stories. These stories are a blend of business, economics and extravagant compassion that give lucid and dramatic insights into the selfless activities and adventures of Dr. James W. Jackson. Dr. Jackson is a gifted storyteller who draws his unique insights from his millions of miles of travel and his personal visits to over 150 countries. He is trained in business and economics, yet his true wisdom comes from lessons learned while observing and interacting with real people in nearly every corner of the world. Dr. Jackson not only observes and processes anecdotes but has the ability to repaint with poignant words the mental pictures he has collected. Dr. Jackson was working as an international economic consultant in developing nations around the globe when his work led him face-to-face with the needs of the sick and dying. During a trip to Brazil, Dr. Jackson visited a small clinic near Rio de Janeiro. Once inside, he learned that patients were often turned away due to the lack of basic medical supplies and equipment. Jackson was moved to action. He made a promise that he would help provide relief to those people. Dr. Jackson returned to his home in Evergreen, Colorado, and with the assistance of friends in the medical industry he collected approximately $250,000 worth of medical supplies in his garage in about 30 days time. By personally paying the shipping expenses, Dr. Jackson was able to send an ocean-going cargo container to Brazil. Soon after, he and his wife, Dr. AnnaMarie Jackson, founded the non-profit, humanitarian relief organization, Project C.U.R.E. From its humble beginnings in the mountains of Colorado, Project C.U.R.E. expanded to other cities across the United States. Currently, the organization maintains large distribution warehouses in Arizona, Colorado, Texas and Tennessee. In addition, Project C.U.R.E. has established many smaller collection centers in other cities around the U.S. where donated items are gathered and then delivered to the distribution warehouses.

Dr. James W. Jackson (Author), Dr. James W. Jackson (Narrator)

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Into the Wild

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself..."Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama wandering of human yearning."--The New York Times"A narrative of arresting force. Anyone who ever fancied wandering off to face nature on its own harsh terms should give a look. It's gripping stuff."--The Washington Post

Jon Krakauer (Author), Philip Franklin (Narrator)

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The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

"If you've been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it."-Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild. In many ways, we're more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter's journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA's top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who's found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.

Michael Easter (Author), Michael Easter (Narrator)

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Born to Run

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder. With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.

Christopher McDougall (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator)

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