Résultats pour "The Odyssey" dans Aventuriers, explorateurs et survie

In the summer of 1972, the open road beckoned best friends, nineteen-year-old Barry Johnson and twenty-year-old Bobby Young. Carrying backpacks with the essentials, staples of Kraft Mac and Cheese, dressed in jeans, Frye boots, with $100 each, they set off from their homes in Massachusetts. And so their cross-country adventure began during a time when the bond of trust between driver and hitchhiker was rarely questioned. Little did they know that this journey would shape their lives in ways they could never imagine.

An seinem 43. Geburtstag stieg Dick Conant, ein Goldjunge, der nie ganz so erwachsen wurde, wie es seine Umgebung erwartete, in ein selbstgebautes Boot, um trotz eines aufziehenden Schneesturms eine Reise anzutreten. Der Beginn einer gewaltigen Odyssee eines unkonventionellen Mannes durch die flüssigen Arterien Amerikas, eine Reise zu den unbekannten Rändern der Gesellschaft. »Riverman« ist das bewegende Porträt eines komplexen und faszinierenden Mannes.

Z’s Odyssey is a personal story of the struggle to find relief for intractable pain in a medical, legal, and political climate that restricts opioid doses that were once the standard of care. Z’s Odyssey spans the watershed year of 2016 when the Centers for Disease Control invited the members of an anti-opioid lobby to develop the pain guideline for the first time in near secrecy and have since been opposed by professional organizations representing half a million doctors.

I have my mother to thank for losing my mind. Her confession made me feel like I’d been released from her womb all over again. It answered all the questions about our family; but what about the mystery that was me? I thought I had everything, but the truth was missing. Her secret inspired a transatlantic voyage, followed by a nomadic lifestyle in Europe, in search of a home, and myself.