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Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) life

Downs, Maggie (author.).

Summary: "Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself - Maggie faces some of the world's most exotic locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother and the close bond they shared. Interweaving travelogue with memories of her family, Braver Than You Think takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, whitewater rafting down the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt. By embarking on a global journey, Downs embraces what it means to make every moment count - traveling around the globe and home again, losing a parent while discovering the world"--

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  • ISBN: 9781640094697
  • ISBN: 1640094695
  • ISBN: 1640092927
  • ISBN: 9781640092921
  • Physical Description: 285 pages ; 24 cm
    print
  • Edition: First hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020.

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Formatted Contents Note: Love -- Death -- Life.

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Subject: Downs, Maggie Travel
Downs, Maggie Family
Voyages around the world
Backpacking
Alzheimer's disease Patients Family relationships
Terminally ill parents United States
Mothers and daughters United States
Parent and adult child United States
Women authors Biography
Authors, American 21st century Biography
Alzheimer's disease
Terminally ill
Mother and child
Adult children
Travel
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiography

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  • 6 of 6 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Exeter Community Library 910.41 DOW (Text) 33249024438842 Non-fiction Available -
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Pottsville Free Public Library 920.72 D759 (Text)
Bookplate: Presented by David and Christine Ambrose in memory of Ralph and Peggy Jaeger
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