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Transformed by the light: the powerful effect of near-death experiences on people's lives
Par Paul Perry, Melvin Morse. 1993
Millions of people throughout the world have had a near-death experience. The authors present a wealth of evidence from people…
who have returned from death after being 'transformed by the light'. They show how the lives of people who return from the brink of death are usually changed for the better - spiritually and physically - for the rest of their lives. The authors suggest that these extraordinary revelations may alter your view on death and dying. 1993.Travels on my elephant
Par Mark Shand. 1991
There is no better way to see India than from the howdah of an elephant, as Mark Shand discovered when…
he set out on a thousand kilometre journey to Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market, on the back of Tara, a 31-year-old elephant. Tara was transformed from a scrawny and ill- treated begging elephant into a star attraction, and finding her a home was to present the greatest challenge of all. 1991.Trailing Pythagoras
Par George Galt. 1982
Galt recounts his personal experiences traveling through the Aegean islands. In addition to a host of incredible characters, Galt has…
to contend with the ghost of his own ancestor, John Galt, who explored the same terrain early in the 19th century. c1982.To get rich is glorious: China in the eighties
Par Orville Schell. 1984
Timely death: considering our last rights
Par Anne Mullens. 1996
Journalist Anne Mullens considers the question of whether a democratic society can legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. She presents all…
sides in the debate, interviewing experts in Europe and North America, and talking to doctors, ethicists, advocacy groups, and law-makers. 1996.Through grief: the bereavement journey
Par Elizabeth Collick. 1986
Only the unloved and unloving escape grief. It is the price paid for the love that makes life worth living.…
The book is sub-titled "The Bereavement Journey" and by writing of her own experience and that of others, the author sets out to help people "come through" their grief and to gain support in the strange angers, guilt and frustration that they will find in common with these people; to come through grief to life again on the far side of loss. 1986.Things I wish I knew before my mom died: coping with loss every day
Par Ty Alexander. 2018
From grief counseling to sharing insightful true stories, Alexander offers comfort, reassurance, and hope in the face of sorrow. In…
the chapters of this soul-touching book, mourners will find meaning and wisdom in grieving and the love that will always remain. 2018.The woman said yes: encounters with life and death : memoirs
Par Jessamyn West. 1976
Writer tells how her Quaker mother, Grace, nursed her through tuberculosis after the sanatorium gave up on her. Grace taught…
both author Jessamyn and Jessamyn's sister, Carmen, to "say yes to the life in their lives," and yes to death when that life is over. After Grace's death, it is Jessamyn who helps Carmen deal with inoperable cancer. 1976.The wheel of life: a memoir of living and dying
Par Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. 1998
The author traces the events that shaped her life intellectually and spiritually - events which led her to explain the…
ultimate truth that death does not exist but is a transformation. From her work in war-ravaged Poland to her pioneering counselling of the terminally ill, her seminars and discussions with people who have been revived after death, we learn how each experience provided her with a new piece of the puzzle. 1998.The walk west: a walk across America 2
Par Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins. 1981
A description of the authors' trip from New Orleans to Oregon. They tell of their experiences and the people they…
met during their 2,000 mile walk, beginning in 1976 and ending in 1979. Sequel to "Walk across America." 1981.The undertaking: life studies from the dismal trade
Par Thomas Lynch. 1997
Twelve essays on death and grief and their effect on the living with the insight of a poet who is…
also a funeral director. In "Words Made Flesh," Lynch recounts the dissolution of a poet's second marriage, the death of love, and the role of a poem in the birth of new love. In "The Golfatorium," he contemplates combining a cemetery with a golf course. c1997.The southern gates of Arabia: a journey to the Hadhramaut
Par Freya Stark. 1990
In 1935, Freya Stark set out to travel the Incense Route inland from the southern shores of Arabia. She encountered…
sultans and Bedouin, harem women of Do'an, the Mansab of Meshed, cheerful distributor of peppermints, cloves and chewing gum and Hasan, overheard describing her as "one of the sultanas of England". 1990.The secret voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
Par R. Samuel Bawlf. 2003
On September 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth harbour on the coast of England.…
He had long been given up for lost, and rumours quickly circulated about where he had been on his three-year voyage and about the huge haul of plunder he had brought home. What was eventually revealed would change the history of exploration in North America. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.The royal road to romance
Par Richard Halliburton. 1969
The author chose to see the world as a vagabond. He relates his adventures: being penniless in Monte Carlo, in…
prison for taking forbidden photographs at Gibraltar, and held by Chinese pirates at sea. 1969.The remarkable world of Frances Barkley, 1769-1845
Par Beth Hill, Frances Barkley. 1978
Frances Barkley was the first European woman to set foot on the coast of B.C. In 1786, she embarked from…
Europe on a trade and exploration voyage with her husband, Captain Charles W. Barkley. Her reminiscences contain her descriptions of their life at sea, and visits to South America, India, China, and what is now known as Alaska and British Columbia. 1978.The memory of water (Life writing series #47)
Par Allen Smutylo. 2013
Over the last forty years, Canadian adventurer and writer Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating…
waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. Here he describes some of his adventures in the Arctic, South Pacific, Great Lakes region, and India. Smutylo probes a crucial and contemporary issue—that of our relationship to water and the wildlife and human life that depend upon it. c2013.Hoffman spent six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded…
and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the most rickety trains. He did so going from Lima to the Amazon on crowded night buses where the road is a washed-out track, across Indonesia and Bangladesh by overcrowded ferries that kill 1,000 passengers a year, and across Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2010.The lost continent and, Neither here nor there
Par Bill Bryson. 1992
Here in one volume are two comic masterpieces by Bill Bryson, the books that have brought him acclaim as one…
of the funniest writers at work today. "The Lost Continent" is the story of Bryson's return to America, the land of his youth, after ten years in England. He borrowed his mother's car and set out, and his account of his journey has become a classic. In "Neither here nor there" Bryson is in Europe, travelling from Hammerfest in Norway to Istanbul. Fluent in at least one language, a backpack on his shoulders and a tight fist on his wallet, Bryson is a hilarious guide. Strong language. 1992.The lost heart of Asia
Par Colin Thubron. 2004
This book charts Colin Thubron's journey through the newly emergent countries of Central Asia. It is the story of his…
encounters with people, landscapes and the past, looking for lost cities, mosques and tombs, as he searches into the regions fragmented identity and discovers the plight of the once-dominant Russians who remain. 2004.The lost girls: three friends, four continents, one unconventional detour around the world
Par Jennifer Baggett, Amanda Pressner, Holly C Corbett. 2010
Three friends at a crossroads in their twenties quit their high pressure New York media jobs, leave their friends and…
everything familiar behind, and embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world. Includes sex and strong language. c2010.