Title Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) lifetime / Maggie Downs.

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Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020.

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Location	Call No.	Status
East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department	910.4 DOW	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	910.4109 DOWNS	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography	B-DOWNS DOW	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction	910.4 DOW	Check Shelf

Edition	First hardcover edition.
Description	285 pages ; 24 cm
Contents	Love -- Death -- Life.
Summary	"Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself - Maggie faces some of the world's most exotic locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother and the close bond they shared. Interweaving travelogue with memories of her family, Braver Than You Think takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, whitewater rafting down the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt. By embarking on a global journey, Downs embraces what it means to make every moment count - traveling around the globe and home again, losing a parent while discovering the world."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Downs, Maggie -- Travel.
	Downs, Maggie -- Family.
	Voyages around the world.
	Backpacking.
	Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships.
	Terminally ill parents -- United States.
	Mothers and daughters -- United States.
	Parent and adult child -- United States.
	Women authors -- Biography.
	Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
	Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00806564
	Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
	Backpacking. (OCoLC)fst00825121
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
	Parent and adult child. (OCoLC)fst01053304
	Terminally ill parents. (OCoLC)fst01147902
	Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
	Voyages around the world. (OCoLC)fst01169326
	Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01177198
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN	9781640092921 (hardcover)
	1640092927 (hardcover)

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