Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival

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While travelling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding is collided with a logging truck. As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care - in excruciating pain, certain she was moments from death - Alison drew upon years of meditation practice and concentrated on every breath as if it would be her last. Despite countless surgeries and a gruelling recovery, Alison set herself the goal of achieving a new dream: to one day climb Mount Kilimanjaro - and she reached the summit on her fortieth birthday. Gasping for air once again, she stood at the highest point in Africa, determined to never again take a single breath for granted. Perfect readers who love spiritual authors travelling abroad, such as Greg Mortenson ( Three Cups of Tea ) and Elizabeth Gilbert ( Eat, Pray, Love ), this memoir is an amazingly inspirational tale of how a life-changing accident transformed one woman's faith.

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While travelling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding is collided with a logging truck. As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care - in excruciating pain, certain she was moments from death - Alison drew upon years of meditation practice and concentrated on every breath as if it would be her last. Despite countless surgeries and a gruelling recovery, Alison set herself the goal of achieving a new dream: to one day climb Mount Kilimanjaro - and she reached the summit on her fortieth birthday. Gasping for air once again, she stood at the highest point in Africa, determined to never again take a single breath for granted. Perfect readers who love spiritual authors travelling abroad, such as Greg Mortenson ("Three Cups of Tea") and Elizabeth Gilbert ("Eat, Pray, Love"), this memoir is an amazingly inspirational tale of how a life-changing accident transformed one woman's faith.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 25 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 0452295351
ISBN 13: 9780452295353

Media Reviews

[A] profound writer... a true pilgrim...There is muscle and tears here, and the fiercest flame of inspiration. --Richard Gere

Photojournalist Wright has gone to the ends of the earth, including some mountaintops, in a career that has documented the human wonders of the world, especially resilient children and endangered cultures. In this memoir she turns her lens on herself and her own astonishing story... The author's spiritual insights are fascinating. --Publishers Weekly

Wright's seize-the-day attitude and fierce determination to reach the summit will spur you to hurdle whatever obstacles might lie in your path. --Self

Alison's story makes clear that if you have courage you can achieve what others consider to be impossible. --From the Foreword by the Dalai Lama

Author Bio

Alison Wright is an award-winning photo-journalist, who focuses her efforts on documenting endangered cultures and human rights issues. She is the author of three books of photography and has published articles in National Geographic, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine and many other publications.