47 Results for : trekked
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The "Great Pedestrian" of North and South America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 139min
Cabeza de Vaca's mode of transportation, afoot on portions of two continents in the early decades of the 16th century, fits one dictionary definition of the word "pedestrian". By no means, however, should the ancillary meanings of "commonplace" or "prosaic" be applied to the man or his remarkable adventures. Between 1528 and 1536, he trekked an estimated 2480 to 2640 miles of North American terrain from the Texas coast near Galveston Island to San Miguel de Culiacán near the Pacific Coast of Mexico. He then traveled under better circumstances, although still on foot, to Mexico City. About a year later, Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain. In 1540, the king granted Cabeza de Vaca civil and military authority in modern-day Paraguay. After arriving on the coast of Brazil in 1541, he was unable to find transportation by ship to the seat of his governorship. He then led a group of more 250 settlers through 1200 miles of unchartered back country, during which he lost only two men. Cabeza de Vaca's travels are amazing in themselves, but during them he transformed from a proud Spanish don to lay advocate of Indian rights on both American continents. That journey is as remarkable as his travels. It was this "great awakening" that landed him in more trouble with Spaniards than Indians. Settlers at Asunción rebelled against the reformist governor, incarcerated him, tried to poison his food on two occasions, and finally sent him to Spain in irons. There he was tried and convicted on trumped-up charges of carrying out policies that were the exact opposite of what he had promoted - the humane protection of Indians. This book examines the two great "journeys" of Cabeza de Vaca - his extraordinary adventures on two continents and his remarkable growth as a humanitarian. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Henderson Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087721/bk_acx0_087721_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Santa Fe Trail: The History and Legacy of 19th Century America's Most Popular Overland Route to the Southwest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United States. It set in motion the great movement west that began almost immediately with the first commercial overland expedition funded by John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company and would continue with the establishment of the Oregon Trail and California Trail. The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most consequential migrations in history, and as it so happened, the paths were being formalized and coming into use right around the time gold was discovered in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country’s power centers on the East Coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended, and among the very few Americans who were near the region at the time, many of them were army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there. San Francisco was still best known for being a Spanish military and missionary outpost during the colonial era, and only a few hundred called it home. Mexico’s independence, and its possession of those lands, had come only a generation earlier.Everything changed almost literally overnight. While the Mexican-American War technically concluded with a treaty in February 1848, the announcement brought an influx of an estimated 90,000 “Forty-Niners” to the region in 1849, hailing from other parts of America and even as far away as Asia. All told, an estimated 300,000 people would come to California over the next few years, as men dangerously trekked thousands of miles in hopes of making a fortune, and in a span of months, San Francisco’s population exploded, making it one of the first "mining boom" towns to truly spring up in the West. This was a pattern that would repeat itself across th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174117/bk_acx0_174117_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Road to Nablus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
Seven years before the emergence of the modern state of Israel, a boy was born in an ancient city in Palestine called Lydda (also known as Lod), the setting of the Bible story of Acts 9:32, in which the apostle Peter miraculously heals a man who has been paralyzed from birth. But this is a story of more recent greatness that came out of this town of miracles located in dusty hills surrounded by harsh, ruggedly beautiful countryside in the heart of the former Palestine. It is the story of a boy who was different than all the others. A boy of rare grit and determination the likes of which hadn't been seen by Palestinian refugees in generations.The Road to Nablus is the true story of a boy who fought to escape from a hardscrabble refugee camp in Palestine and a wretched destiny in store for him in the aftermath of World War II. He was seven years old when United Nations Resolution 181 was enacted in November of 1947 to partition Palestine and to allow displaced Jews into the region after the war. The young boy's family suffered greatly in the ensuing violence. He was eight years old when soldiers showed up at his family's house in Lydda in the summer of 1948 and evicted them at gunpoint.Told that there was no longer a place for them and their generations in this region renamed Israel, they were sent eastward into Transjordan. Carrying what few belongings they could grab, they trekked east, to an area of land located in a rock-strewn, dry, hilly desert in the western reaches of Transjordan.The refugees were resettled 20 miles east of Lydda in a refugee tent camp in this new "West Bank" portion of Transjordan, almost exactly halfway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. There, these native, homeless Palestinian civilians could try to eke out a living. The boy, his brothers, his father and mother, and a few other family members would all live together in one tent, with no electricity, no running water, no amenities, a small monthly ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bassam Hadi, MD. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165227/bk_acx0_165227_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 997min
From Richard Zacks, best-selling author of Island of Vice andThe Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain's late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy - and revived his world-class sense of humor. Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace." But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance. Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day. The great American writer fought off numerous illnes ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004573/bk_rand_004573_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 338min
New York Times best sellerA memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters - a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine.When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as "Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue." This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom - with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism - would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly’s life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler’s checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting. But it didn’t turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That’s how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved in. And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother’s voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. Every day she spent with the Tanner kids was a day spent reconsidering her relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands like a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral. This is a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly it’s about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time.Praise for Glitter and Glue“I loved this book, I was moved by this book, and now I will share this book with my own mother - along with my renewed appreciation for certain debts of love that can never be repa ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Corrigan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003737/bk_rand_003737_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hoka Hey!
Confused. Agonizing over a choice, one of those rare crossroads where you decide who you are. The burden so weighty, the walls leaning in. Awake all night, sweating and claustrophobic, in the morning I left the house hungry. My feet carried me north to A Mountain and up to the top. I've always enjoyed being high, in tree branches and skyscrapers. I tried to clear my head. I looked down on the strip malls and the busy streets and the golf courses irrigated on top of the desert. I sat and baked as the sun trekked overhead, and hoped the heat would evaporate excess feelings, leave behind just essence. Sat and sat, and thought and thought. My guts churned and churned but nothing was revealed. It was sometime in the afternoon when a man appeared. I didn't see him approach. His name in English was Desert Fox and he was wearing a green and purple sweater, despite the heat. His people had once lived on and around A Mountain. They were the ones who carved the glyphs in the rocks. In those days the river had flowed here, but then the government dammed and diverted it.Desert Fox asked me if I knew the phrase Hoka Hey. It is a battle cry, he told me, that you say to give thanks to the Great Spirit for your life as a warrior. Not to despair in misery, or feel sorry for yourself. Not to bemoan, but to embrace pain as pleasure's dance partner, sink your teeth into it and suck it dry of flavor, because it is also life. I don't know if there are spirits, or a Great Spirit, but this idea struck and has stuck with me.- Shop: odax
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Alive
More than a sound, the lyrical nuance of singer/songwriter ROBERT VALENTE's "ALIVE" is one that is in an unmarked avenue. The music is filled with insight and prophetic clarity. Country rock with the essence of a folk/blues touch. With a lifetime of experience, merged with a myriad of accomplishments both in the music of world and a journey-filled life, ROBERT VALENTE has run the gamut and is in line for the next marathon. "Bringing to light the hidden agenda" are words that epitomize his passion and goal. From designing clothing, to tickling the ivory with new creations, crossing the country with an acoustic guitar on board, along with his bible in hand and a message in his heart, Robert Valente is a man of wisdom and voice. Robert has cultivated both the desire and action within many cultural events. He is not a man of the "norm" but one who has trekked on "the road less traveled". He doesn't just have a story to tell through his music, he has vision to share. With songs like "Gospel Man" and "Country Singer", the words within the words are what bring the songs to light. With the listening audience wanting more to enter the place of seeking, searching and learning in the place of the holy of hollies.- Shop: odax
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