The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

by Al HumphreysAnna McNuff Benedict Allen and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/09/2018

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Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer


Travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens when we arrive home? How do our experiences shape us?


The Kindness of Strangers explores what it means to be vulnerable and to be helped by someone we've never met before. Someone who could have walked past, but chose not to.


This is a collection of stories by accomplished travellers and adventurous souls like Sarah Outen, Benedict Allen, Ed Stafford and Al Humphreys, who have completed daring journeys through challenging terrain, adventuring from the Calais Jungle to the Amazon, from Land’s End to the Gobi Desert, from New Guinea to Iran and many other places in between. Each has a story to tell of a time when they were vulnerable, when they were in need and a kind stranger came to their rescue.


These are stories that make our hearts grow, stories that will restore our faith in the world and remind us that, despite what the media says, the world isn't a scary place – rather, it is filled with Kind Strangers just like us.


All royalties go directly to fund Oxfam’s work with refugees.

ISBN:
9781786858733
9781786858733
Category:
True stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Summersdale
Anna McNuff

Anna McNuff is an adventurer, motivational speaker, influencer and author. She was named by Condé Nast Traveller as one of the 50 most influential travellers of our time, and by the Guardian as one of the top modern female adventurers.

She is the UK Ambassador for Girl Guiding, and the co-founder of Adventure Queens, the UK’s fastest growing women’s adventure community. When she isn't adventuring, she lives in Gloucester.

Benedict Allen

Benedict Allen is an explorer and a former member of Council and Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, Patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation, The Tony Foundation and Save the Rhino Trust.

He is the editor of The Faber Book of Exploration.

Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford is the first person ever to walk the Amazon River from source to sea. Since completing that feat in 2010 he has undertaken deadly challenges around the globe.

These include being marooned on a desert island, crossing the world's hottest desert on foot and navigating his way through jungle where no human has set foot before.

His exploits have been captured in five highly-successful Discovery Channel series.

Levison Wood

Levison Wood is an award-winning author, explorer and photographer who specialises in documenting people and cultures in remote regions and post-conflict zones.

His work has taken him around the world leading expeditions on five continents and he is an elected fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.

Levison's second book, Walking the Himalayas, was voted Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards and his other books, Walking the Nile and Walking the Americas, were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

He has presented several critically acclaimed documentaries including From Russia to Iran: Crossing the Wild Frontier where he re-traced part of his Silk Road adventures in a four-part series for Channel 4.

Lois Pryce

Lois Pryce is a journalist and speaker and has written for the Telegraph, Independent, New York Times, CNN and the Guardian and is a contributing editor for Overland Journal.

She was named by the Telegraph as one of the 10 Great Female Travellers and is the author of two other bestselling books about her adventures by motorcycle.

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