Leave Only Footprints

Leave Only Footprints

Author: Conor Knighton

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1984823558

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people our country has to offer NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY OUTSIDE When Conor Knighton set off to explore America's "best idea," he worried the whole thing could end up being his worst idea. A broken engagement and a broken heart had left him longing for a change of scenery, but the plan he'd cooked up in response had gone a bit overboard in that department: Over the course of a single year, Knighton would visit every national park in the country, from Acadia to Zion. In Leave Only Footprints, Knighton shares informative and entertaining dispatches from what turned out to be the road trip of a lifetime. Whether he's waking up early for a naked scrub in a historic bathhouse in Arkansas or staying up late to stargaze along our loneliest highway in Nevada, Knighton weaves together the type of stories you're not likely to find in any guidebook. Through his unique lens, America the Beautiful becomes America the Captivating, the Hilarious, and the Inspiring. Along the way, he identifies the threads that tie these wildly different places together—and that tie us to nature—and reveals how his trip ended up changing his views on everything from God and love to politics and technology. Filled with fascinating tidbits about our parks' past and reflections on their fragile future, this book is both a celebration of and a passionate case for the natural wonders that all Americans share.


Life Is a Journey, Not a Race

Life Is a Journey, Not a Race

Author: S. B. Sia

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1666737712

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Life presents us with challenges as well as opportunities. It confronts us with obstacles as we journey on, but it also offers us various pathways and routes that we can take. Comparing our life-journey to the travels we make in life, this book is an invitation to readers to face up to those challenges and to meet them through a series of reflections called “comma-moments”: the chance to “stop momentarily and mull things over,” or to “create space in time” as they go about the business of living from day to day. Like commas in a sentence, which help us to read and interpret its meaning properly, a life punctuated with short reflective breaks enables us to draw out its meaning and significance. Drawing on his vast educational background and diverse global travels, the author shares with readers some “thoughts for food” while on our life-journeys. These reflections, as well as anecdotes and stories, also avail themselves of the real-life experiences of others and the wisdom of many contemporary voices and historical figures throughout the world, especially those who have been concerned with the kind of reflection that will help as we move on in life. In particular, it discusses a conceptual life-map to aid us navigate our way in life and to step up to its challenges.


Footprints

Footprints

Author: Michelle Mercer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781585424689

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Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz. Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, and enriched by more than seventy-five original interviews with his friends and associates, this book is at once an invaluable history of music from bebop to pop, an intimate and moving biography, and a story of a man's struggle toward the full realization of his gifts and of himself.


Heart Whispers Life's Journey Verses

Heart Whispers Life's Journey Verses

Author: Russom Teklay

Publisher: Russom Teklay

Published: 2023-09-24

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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This collection of verses takes readers on a profound and emotional journey through life's various experiences, each poem serving as a whispered revelation of the heart's innermost thoughts and emotions. The title suggests that within the pages of this book, readers will discover a tapestry of emotions, experiences, and reflections. These verses are not mere words but rather the quiet... This collection of verses takes readers on a profound and emotional journey through life's various experiences, each poem serving as a whispered revelation of the heart's innermost thoughts and emotions. The title suggests that within the pages of this book, readers will discover a tapestry of emotions, experiences, and reflections. These verses are not mere words but rather the quiet murmurings of the soul, offering insights into the human experience, the complexities of love, the trials of existence, and the beauty found in the ordinary and extraordinary moments of life.