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Books : Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival
Product Description: A searing and uplifting account of one woman’s spiritual journey from surviving a terrible accident to a triumphant ascent of Kilimanjaro
On the second day of this century, world- renowned photojournalist Alison Wright was traveling on a windy mountain road in Laos when the bus she was riding in collided with a logging truck and was severed in half. As Alison waited for help to arrive—in excruciating pain and believing she was moments from death—she drew upon her years of meditation practice and concentrated on every breath as if it were her last.
Learning to Breathe is an extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive. After the bus collision, Alison spent fourteen hours without proper medical attention (her arm was first sewn up by a boy with a needle and thread) and endured months of surgeries and grueling physical therapy. She struggled to remain positive while doctors discouraged her from expecting a return to her previous life. Never one to accept defeat, Alison set herself a goal: to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Alison did climb Kilimanjaro, reaching the summit on the morning of her fortieth birthday. Gasping for air once again, she stood at the highest point in Africa, thankful for every moment she’d had since the accident and determined to never again take one single breath for granted. Bringing the story full circle, she retraces her steps in Laos to thank those who helped her, and she has since resumed traveling the world photographing children and the underprivileged.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - inspiring reminder of human spirit
I really enjoyed this book. It serves to remind us that we can accomplish so much with the courage and tenacity of our human spirit; thoroughly recommended
Rating: - Powerful and Inspiring!
Author Alison Wright's book "Learning to Breathe: One Women's Journey of Spirit and Survival" is more than just a personal story - it speaks of the greater self and our ability to find courage and power within. I was truly touched by reading her inspiring story. She takes what happens to her and moves past the pains and the potential hardships and learns something much greater about her own self.
The reader is taken along on this spiritual journey of discovery. Alison is able to communicate her experiences not only in the physical sense of what was happening but also from a point of view that allows the reader to fully sense what she was feeling and thinking. The real story is her inner journey and that is what makes her work so much more powerful.
I bought this book for my older sister to read as a birthday gift and will gift other women in my life with copies as well. I feel that women need to see and read about strong courageous women; and to me, Alison Wright truly represents what a true hero is. She faced her pain and fears and through her will power and determination she met her future dreams with success.
This book is both inspirational and entertaining and will be hard to put down. I read it though in one sitting because I wanted to know the full story and how she came out. The book earns The American Authors Association's highest book rating of FIVE STARS. This book also gets my personal endorsement and fullest recommendations. This book is no doubt one of the top 10 best inspirational books of the last decade.
Rating: - A triumph!
Not everyone survived the tragic bus accident that took place on a mountain road in Laos on the second day of the year 2000. But photojournalist Alison Wright -- although horribly injured, and lingering on the razor's edge of death -- did make it through, and her book about the experience is a triumph.
Prior to the crash, Wright had led an exciting, colorful, globe-circling life as a top-notch photojournalist (both before and since her accident, her work has appeared Everywhere). If she had written a book about her life Before, it would have been a good book. But the Crash, and Wright's long, difficult, but seemingly miraculous recovery, add weight and texture and a dose of magic to "Learning to Breathe." One moment Wright's life is great, and in the next moment she is lying beside a Laotian highway, punctured, broken, bleeding, moaning, with people around her dying. While lying there, helpless, hovering between this world and... whatever's next, Wright experienced a profound feeling of connectedness with everyone and every thing in the universe. In "Learning to Breathe," Wright, in a no-nonsense way, describes, analyzes, and revels in this near-death experience, and a reader can not help but appreciate (and even slightly envy) it.
But the book is about more than the accident and Wright's recovery. She weaves in fascinating stories from her life, which, in terms of experience, is indeed a "rich" life. She seems equally at ease hanging out with nomads in the wilds of Tibet, children in the world's most forsaken refugee camps, or notables such as Richard Gere, the Dalai Lama, and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the Burmese opposition. The book has a spiritual thread, too, which is not-overdone. A serious meditator, Wright talks about how focussing on her breathing during her meditation practice helped her get through both the immediate ordeal and the recovery.
This book is a celebration of life, and a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit, even in the most difficult circumstances. We're fortunate that Alison seems to have earned a "bonus round," and we're doubly fortunate that she's sharing it with us.
Rating: - Learning To Breathe
I had been trying to locate this book after reading the review in the Nat'l Geographic Explorer magazine.I am into chapter 10 and truly enjoying it! Thanks for having it available and at a great price. ...Karen...
Rating: - Outstanding Book
This is a book everyone should read - very inspirational whether you need it or not!
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