Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts

Monday, 15 February 2021

Explore Amazing Places With These Adventure eBooks

Adventure eBooks draw readers into a world that you would have never explored. These eBooks are considered invisible zip lines for the reader’s mind. Here are eBooks that will take your family on great adventures.

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

This eBook provides readers with a first-hand account of the deadly blizzard that left eight people dead between May 10 and 11, 1996. This was the most lethal Everest climbing season in history until the avalanches occurred in 2014 and 2015. The existing eyewitness account of the events that unfolded at 29,000 feet is an achievement he will live to tell. Visit Voxency to learn more about these events.

Adrift - Steven Callahan

Adrift tells the true-life story of how Steven Callahan spent scary 76 days at sea on an inflatable raft. Being the only one who survived more than one month at sea, his adventurous experience is inspiring. Adrift was rated as one the best adventurous seafaring classic books of all time. The story of this eBook comes from Tami Oldham’s account. She spent 41 days in the Pacific Ocean after Hurricane Raymond destroyed her boat.

Christian Beamish’s The Voyage of the Cormorant

If you want your children to be inspired to dream big, share this eBook with them. In this adventure story, not everything goes as planned. The plan of sailing along the coast of California and Baja is an educational and fulfilling experience.

For more adventure ebooks, head over to Voxency.

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Greatest Couple Adventure Quotes

Travelling is such a unique experience, but it’s even better when you have your partner beside you. Here are some of the greatest couple adventure quotes that will inspire you and your better half to travel more.

“Don’t Panic” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

“Spread your wings” – Skydive Durban

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.” – Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine Desaint-Exupery

“As soon as I saw you, I knew you would be an adventure of a lifetime.” – Winnie the Pooh

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll

“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz

“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.” – Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims

“Live your life and forget your age.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” – The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people” – Clifton Fadiman

“Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt

“Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment.” – Lily Leung

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot. “ – Shakuntala Devi

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James A. Michener

“Some people live more in twenty years than others do in forty. It’s not the time, it’s the person” – Doctor Who

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Marukami

“You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.” – Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.” – Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to–and that is what adventures are all about.” – Trina Schart Hyman, Self Portrait

“You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.” – Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving” – Terry Pratchett

For more great adventure reading, check out www.voxency.com.