Archive for Amanda
Triumph Around the World – An Eye Classic
Some call it a mid-life crisis, but Robbie Marshall thought of it as a reassessment. After building up a business and raising a family he decided that he needed a change. Over the course of a year, Marshall travelled to over 20 countries on a quarter-ton Motorbike with a limited amount of supplies. He faced enormous danger and wracking loneliness, but finds a new thirst for life on his adventure for knowledge and exploration.
Riding the Outlaw Trail – An Eye Classic
Simon Casson and Richard Adamson embark on a gruelling five-month horseback journey across 2,000 miles of high-plain wilderness. Through this dramatic account, they bring to life the exciting and violent lives of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and give a heart-warming description of the rancher families that live there today. This story is told with gripping detail and will inspire readers to dust off their long-forgotten dreams and make them come true.
Frigid Women – An Eye Classic
Victoria Riches and Sue Riches embark on a life-changing journey to the North Pole as part of the first all-female expedition. Frigid Women is the inspiring true story of this mother and daughter team on the quest to find spiritual healing and self-belief. Dangerous, exciting and humorous at times, their story is about the positive attitudes that can transform even the most difficult tasks into one of life’s most rewarding experiences.
Green Oranges on Lion Mountain – An Eye Classic
Emily Joy left her life as a GP in York to travel to Sierra Leone on a volunteer mission. Though reluctant at first, she soon realizes that the personal struggles she faces are nothing compared to what the people of the war-torn country face every day. Told in a humorous and very human way, Green Oranges on Lion Mountain will inspire readers to focus on the bigger picture and find hope in humanity again.
Jasmine & Arnica – An Eye Classic
Despite her own private fears, Nicola Naylor set out to experience the India she had always imagined but never seen due to a congenital disorder that struck her blind. She leaves the comforts of familiarity and travels alone to India to study aromatherapy techniques she could apply in healing others. In this highly personal account, Naylor found a renewed trust in the world and rediscovered her own self-belief.
Riding with Ghosts – An Eye Classic
This is the frank and outrageous tale of an Englishwoman’s epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico. The ghosts of all the legendary figures of the Old West travel with her as she rides the faded trails of the vanished Native American nations. Mostly alone and camping in the wild, she runs appalling risks and copes with exhaustion, climatic extremes, and a permanently saddle-sore backside in a hilarious way.
The Letter From Death
This provocative work reveals how our irrational and unexamined fear of death has been manipulated throughout history. This has resulted in the misdirection of our energies-away from real challenges and toward unnecessary ones. In this philosophical letter addressed to the whole of humanity, Death challenges even the most open-minded reader to examine the basis of their beliefs about life, death and human nature.
