Walking In This World
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Walk this World
A composite of global cultures, "Walk this World" celebrates the everyday similarities and differences that exist between cultures around the world. Readers can travel to a new country by opening the many flaps on every spread. Full color.
3MPH: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World
On August 1, 1999, Polly Letofsky left her home in Vail, Colorado, and headed west. She traveled across 4 continents, 22 countries, and over 14,000 milesby footto become the first American woman to walk around the world.As an awareness campaign for breast cancer, survivors and well-wishers around the world came out to walk with her. Every day strangers welcomed her into their homes and shared meals. Across four continents she had dinner conversations with poets, politicians, country singers, olive growers, pig farmers and the female bomb maker in Australia. The world had embraced her.But in the middle of Polly's five-year journey, the world suddenly shifted on its axis when September 11 flung us all into a crossroads in world history.Polly's GlobalWalk has been featured in over 2,000 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations around the world including Good Housekeeping, CNN International, The CBS Early Show, NBC's Your Total Health, and Fine Living Channel's Radical Sabbatical. A documentary "Polly's GlobalWalk" has recently been released by Newcastle Productions.To rapt audiences, she richly details her journey with humor and honest reflection, the good times and the hardships. She tells of how she took on the challenge of a life-long dream and learned quickly how to adapt to a swiftly changing world and to always live on the edge of her comfort zone.Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, always inspirational, Polly's program personifies the spirit of commitment and perseverance that will compel you to conquer life's challengesone step at a time.
A Walk in My World
A collection of short stories from around the world including such authors as Valentin Rasputin, Yasunari Kawabata, and Toni Cade Bambara.