Biografi: eventyrere og opdagelsesrejsende

Why should I, an unknown person, write an autobiography? I have done so because my life was full of adventures, strange experiences and amusing anecdotes such as my playing a Jessica Fletcher role to solve a crime in a hotel in the Algarve, Portugal. I did not go through the normal routine of childhood, school, study and job but wandered rather waywardly around the world doing various jobs such as cleaning offices at five in the morning, starting in a remote African village and going to various European countries. The book is also full of historical events, unintentional sociology of human behaviour and interesting people I met. It starts with an African childhood where I suffered from the racist White and Black frictions and then proceeds to my studies in South Africa and then to Paris. I went to France to study French but mainly because I wanted to read French poetry. From there I went on to stays with my German family, to studies in London, to Lisbon and then to Verona, Italy where I now live, all these stages packed with strange and bizarre experiences. For example, what happened to me as a gay Teacher in Reading, how I got innocently drawn into a delinquent group in Verona but managed to extricate myself safe and sound, how an American poetess got me to call myself an 'anarchist' for a while, what happened when I became a bar pianist in Portugal and so on.

Offa's Dyke runs along the border between England and Wales. I walked from south to north, from Chepstow to Prestatyn, It took me 12 days. The Path was opened in 1971 by Sir John Hunt, leader of the 1952 Everest Expedition. For over a third of its 177 miles it closely follows the earthworks of Offa's Dyke.It falls into 5 stages, all different and equally interesting and challenging. It begins by following the course of the River Wye from its mouth in the Severn Estuary past lush water meadows and limestone cliffs as far as Monmouth. It then crosses farming country to reach the Black Mountains and the long ridgeway to Hay, where the bend in the Wye is joined again, before embarking on one of the tougher sections, the Shropshire Hills, where the Dyke is at its most evident.The Severn floodplain provides a flat respite of canal towpaths and river banks until the land rises again at Llanymynech and the finale of the Eglwyseg Mountain north of Llangollen and the Clwydian Range from Llandegla to PrestatynIn June, Offa's Dyke is a joyous river of bird song, a green abundance of meadows and magnificant, ancient, oak, ash and lime trees in new leaf. Walking, you sense the generations that have settled, farmed and fought over this land and how places harbour the memories of the people that lived and died here.There is little tarmaced road and most of the way is along tracks and grassy paths. None of it is demanding, but for me it was a challenge, not least because I contracted Covid at the start of the trip. Some days were long and tiring but I enjoyed every bit and highly recommend it.

Due to popular demand, the long-awaited journey, now begins as the award-winning NJ Male Author of the Year for his book "Let's Find You," and "FROG" from the Ben and Ink series and best-selling author of "The Watcher," takes you into his Deaf world in "A Silent Life." From Puerto Rico to life in radio, television and as a Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator and New Jersey Private Investigator for 25 years. This deeply emotional, based on a true story is touching, heartwarming and at times simply raw. Jeffrey has been involved in various court cases that include Cyber Security Hacking, a Victoria Secret model case, and finding himself knee deep in a murder mystery. When love is suddenly lost, he is forced to live life alone. He will meet a few famous and not so famous people that have entered his Silent Life as he searches to find his voice in a hearing world. It's the power to believe again.

"A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level"--

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time-and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud.Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he "discovered" the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River's Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger's path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children.Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler's book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the "King of the Mountain Men." This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.

"Fra hundevagt til hundeslæde" er Ejnar Mikkelsens egne erindringer om sine eventyrlige bedrifter som styrmand og polarforsker. Bogen beretter om tiden fra han som helt ung stikker til søs, over hans deltagelse i blandt andet Amdrup-ekspeditionen til Østgrøndland og til planlægningen af hans senere arktiske rejser mod det nordlige Alaska. Bogen er første del af det fem bind lange erindringsværk om Ejnar Mikkelsens liv og polarekspeditioner.\"Fra hundevagt til hundeslæde\" er et erindringsværk af den danske polarforsker Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880-1971) om hans ekspeditioner i de nordligste egne af verden.Den danske polarforsker Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880-1971) dedikerede størstedelen af sit liv til Østgrønland og skrev en række fascinerende bøger om sine ekspeditioner. Han var en højt begavet, stædig og vovemodig eventyrer, der gennem hele sit liv følte stor indignation over fattige og oprindelige folks fordrivelse og dårlige vilkår, som han observerede og dokumenterede på sine rejser. Mikkelsen var bare tyve år, da han drog afsted på sin første grønlandsekspedition, og siden fulgte adskillige ekspeditioner. Under eftersøgningen af de forsvundne kollegaer Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Niels Peter Høgh Hagen og Jørgen Brønlund i Nordgrønland blev ekspeditionsholdet ramt af sygdom, forlis og dårlige jagtforhold. Ejnar Mikkelsen overlevede to år i isolation, indtil han på vanviddets og sultedødens rand blev fundet af et norsk hvalfangerskib. Det skræmte ham dog ikke fra at rejse igen, og han kæmpede indtil sin død for at forbedre forholdene i Grønland.

Smuggling a baby. Evacuation. Humor. Leaving the family dog tied to a car bumper. Bombs. The Iran civil war. All are part of Last Flight to Freedom. Judith Marie and her family are transferred to Iran, arriving the first day of martial law in Tehran. Her pregnancy adds to the stress of seeing the war firsthand. Buildings are here one day and bombed the next. Snipers interrupt a normal drive to school. The only American giving birth in a private Iranian hospital on the high holy day of Azar Ashura had its complications as well as surprising hospitality. Playing with a pretend gun, her son had an enlightening outcome with some soldiers. On the way to the baby's first doctor appointment, Judith's driver kept them safe while the car was being rocked by Shah supporters and Khomeini revolutionaries. One plane was finally allowed to land to take out 60 remaining people. With only one hour to get to the airport, the family dog was tied to their car bumper at the office with promises from Iranian staff he would be safe and everything they could carry was packed. The baby, being Iranian due to birth, was smuggled through the airport with an unexpected delay. A true adventure during an historical political event is well worth the read.