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Trails: A Voyage in Trust Before Suspicion (second edition)
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ISBN:
0-7414-0726-4
©2001
Price:
$14.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 219 pages
Category/Subject:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
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Abstract:
This book is a collection of true stories, poetry, photographs, and drawings. It is where I have taken myself, sometimes for no reason in particular except for the sake of seeing. Sometimes I am not satisfied until I reach a dot on the map, and if nothing’s there, at least I no longer have any questions about what I’m missing. Traveling on a boat around the world, hitchhiking across the United States, and journeying alone through Africa are just the details. The conscious struggles I face with being born privileged are the reasons. My method of survival… trust before suspicion.
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Customer Reviews
Thank You
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06/21/2006
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Reviewer:
Rebecca Hsiang
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Hello, my name is Rebecca. I live in Taiwan and I am 15 yr old. I have just recently finished reading your book.
Your book led me to ponder and think about many aspects of my life. Especially about trust. Trusting other people.
Growing up in Taiwan, I was taught to not trust strangers and that Taiwan was a full of bad and corrupt poeple
However, being an extroverted person, I always thought differently. Furthermore, I am a christian and I believe that God is the creator all and loves all of His creation.
To my belief, no one is a stranger because we all have the same Heavenly Father.
Still, to have the courage to greet someone one has never met in their whole life is certainly "impressive" And so I made it a personal challenge to greet strangers, smile at people walking by. It's amazing to see the reactions, especially when others smile back.
Another thing that your book really led me to ponder and reprimand myself about was how I take things for granted.
I go to a private american school in Taichung. The tuition fee is more than 10 times a public chinese school.
I have materialistic things that I dont' even need. I take for granted that I have running water in my taps. I take for granted that I have parents who care about my well-being and my future despite their pressure for me to be a highachiever. Everything in my life are blessings from God. Yet it is so easy for me to take them for granted, to want more, when there are ppl who are starving.
I realized that one can never talk enough, think enough, pray enough for the poor. I also learned from your book that justice will only truly exist when the nation reinforces it.
When we can live peacefully without the police.
Thank you for writing your book.
Thank you for having such insight and blessing the world by publishing it and make it available to all.
I will make sure to tell my friends and those around me about your book and the important lessons it contains.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Hsiang
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Phenomenal
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02/28/2007
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Reviewer:
Natasha
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I'm never very good at starting anything off, but I have to say that Trails is a phenomenal book. Shamefully, in the near two years time that I have had this book, I have never entirely read it. I take a creative writing class at my high school and I have shared parts of the book to them as a sort of writing prompt. It made my teacher wonder what in the world I was reading, caused a lot of controversy among
my peers, but more importantly made them think about their lives and our world. Which was why I shared it with them because ever since I got this book at a leadership summit in LA, it has been the only book to make me seriously think.
I was looking at it just now, at 2:20 in the morning while I am working on an anthology, and realized how much this book has changed me as a person and many of my friends. I dare say that we are on a movement to change our world and it is steadily growing stronger. I doubt that after high school many people will remember the things we talk about changing, the places we want to travel, the lives outside the US we want to affect, but I will.
I guess, because in the back of the book it says you invite
readers to share their thoughts... I am. This book has change some freshmen lives in Nebraska, and I think that
is something, because one life changed makes a difference.
-NatashA
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