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Cargando... Terry (2005)por Douglas Coupland
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was one of the lucky ones who received a copy in the mail prior to the wide release because of an entry I'd written about what Terry meant to me. The book's release coincided with a dark time in my life, my grandma (whom I was extremely close to) had just died of Ovarian cancer 10 months before and when I was asked what Terry meant to me the words just flowed. He means the world to a lot of people, including me. ( ) This was one of the books I read when I was lacking an internet connection. It can be read easily within the space of an hour or so and as you might expect, Coupland shows us pictures of everything from Terry's worn out socks to letters Canadian children wrote to encourage him as he ran to unite the entire country. And, if you don't know the story of Terry Fox, it's one that is incredibly inspiring to me and gives me ultimate faith in humanity. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research -- despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts led to the impossible notion that he would do this on one good leg and a prosthesis. Beginning in Newfoundland on April 12, 1980, he ran 26 miles each day for 143 consecutive days. But on September 1, the return of his cancer forced him to stop in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He died ten months later, but by then his dream had been realized: over $24 million had been collected in his name. Created to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of his journey, this biography combines over 80 new photographs from a previously unknown family collection with a very personal episodic narrative. The result brings a magic moment in Canadian history, and the young man who inspired it, freshly alive. All royalties from the book will be donated to the Terry Fox Foundation to support cancer research. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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