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Author : Beryl Curreen
Release : 2015
Genre : New Zealand
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Accidental Immigrant by : Beryl Curreen
Download or read book The Accidental Immigrant written by Beryl Curreen. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Willard
Release : 2023-07-14
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Book Rating : 548/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Accidental Immigrant by : Lynne Willard
Download or read book The Accidental Immigrant written by Lynne Willard. This book was released on 2023-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Accidental Immigrant is the story of a middle-aged American woman who travels south of the border to recuperate from multiple traumas, only to discover that her entire net worth is $181.00 dollars. Although she has traveled widely, she has never been to Mexico; although she is multilingual, she knows only two Spanish words. With no home to return to, she decides to stay-relying on her wits, the barter system, divine intervention, and the kindness of strangers. The product of a six-year private girls' school, she learned to bend the rules without incurring punishment; a fearless traveler during the Cold War pre-terrorism days, she aided people in the Eastern Bloc by temporarily changing her identity. Jobs dropped into her lap, either because she was athletic or because she was good with languages, especially her own, This mini-memoir chronicles the author's adventures in Mexico over the last twenty years, with glimpses into a past that define her character and personality. With degrees in news-editorial journalism, international relations, mass communication, and cross-cultural sociology, she is well-equipped to share her insights into Mexican life and culture. And because her second husband wanted to become a Mexican citizen, she helped him study for a test whose questions changed every four months, turning her into a treasure trove of trivia, until his sudden death drove her from San Miguel de Allende to heal in the sun, sand, and sea on the Pacific Coast. Inevitably, people will ask her where she is from, as well as when and why she moved to Mexico. Her stock reply: "It's a really long story. I'm a United States citizen but a Mexican in my heart. I arrived on a tourist visa early in 2002, with no plans to stay. Since I never actually moved here, I call myself 'The Accidental Immigrant.'"
Author : Kyriacos C. Markides
Release : 2021-04-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 884/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book The Accidental Immigrant written by Kyriacos C. Markides. This book was released on 2021-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Accidental Immigrant is the capstone work of world-renown author Professor Kyriacos C. Markides, based on his over fifty-year-quest for an authentic understanding of the true nature of Reality. As a teenager he arrived at the docs of New York in 1960 with the purported aim of earning a business degree and returning to his native Cyprus. Thanks to a string of uncanny coincidences he soon realized that the real meaning and purpose of his Atlantic crossing was not the acquisition of practical skills but the development of his social awareness and spiritual consciousness. This is the story, among other things, of his valiant struggles to assimilate within American society and culture, of his peace activism to help heal the wounds of ethnic strife in his native Island, and of his relentless quest for spiritual fulfillment within the challenging confines of the secular and agnostic world of modern academia. As a sociologist and a field researcher he shares with us his encounters with a variety of remarkable people that include colorful Christian shamans and healers possessors of paranormal gifts as well as charismatic monks and ascetics who exposed him to the magnificent spiritual wisdom of Eastern mystical Christianity. It is, among other things, these kinds of experiences that step by step led him to realize that there is a deeper Truth over and beyond our physical and sensate universe that is the foundation and wellspring of everything that happens in our lives within the three-dimensional world. And it is this awareness that could eventually lead towards the integration of the best of science with the best of religion for the long-term survival of the human race.
Author : David Bouchier
Release : 2004-06
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 128/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book The Accidental Immigrant written by David Bouchier. This book was released on 2004-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic humorist David Bouchier brings wit, wisdom and a touch of philosophy to the everyday dramas of American suburban life. This book brings together more than a hundred essays, originally broadcast on National Public Radio, or published in his Out of Order column in the Sunday New York Times. When work and marriage brought David Bouchier to Long Island in 1986 the endless suburbs seemed mysterious and exotic to him. He was inspired to begin writing essays and newspaper columns about his life there - a personal and public diary of the Resident Alien experience. In 1992 a weekly public radio essay was added to the newspaper columns, and thousands of listeners still enjoy David's weekly radio broadcasts. These are the affectionate and sometimes acerbic observations of an Accidental Immigrant, who still finds life in America endlessly stimulating and wonderfully strange. David Bouchier's thoughts about love, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the suburbs will make you smile, and make you think. Boring suburban rituals like lawn care mall shopping, wedding rehearsals, and barbecues will never seem the same again.
Author : Jerzy Glowczewski
Release : 2007-11-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 069/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Accidental Immigrant by : Jerzy Glowczewski
Download or read book The Accidental Immigrant written by Jerzy Glowczewski. This book was released on 2007-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author Having spent nearly ten years writing my memoirs, originally in Polish, I hope that with this English edition they will reach a wider circle of readers. They span more than eighty years of turbulent world historyand when is such history not turbulent?--and include details which may not be familiar to many readers. Those acquainted with the epoch I am describing may wander, before picking up the book, whether it is yet another retelling of an often described drama, the subject already of myriad historical classics. I would say, yes, but it is a retelling with a twist. This book is, above all, a tale of exceptional good fortune, which, in contrast to the experiences of many others of my generation, has been my oddly lucky lot. I have lived on the edge of a precipice, yet have somehow managed to miss the worst fate. I have been steps away from death, a refugee fleeing deportation, starvation, and death camps. While fighting on two fronts during World War II, I had been shot at innumerable times; while in combat, I have without a doubt caused the death of others. After the wars end, living under a Soviet-imposed communist regime, I was spared torture and prison. And I did not choose emigration, but circumstances forced meand my wife and daughterto accept it. Luckily, we found ourselves in Americaland of promise. Ironically, however, we arrived here during a difficult period of social upheaval and racial unrest. Political conflict, assassinations, bombings, and the tragedy of an interventionist war in Indochina formed the backdrop of our new life in our adopted country. Later, working in the Middle East, I witnessed the early seeds of the conflict that now besieges us all. Looking back, I can hardly believe that through it all my luck held out, and that I was able to write my memoirs in the peace and quiet of my own home. And I trust that you will enjoy reading them--the story of an incorrigible optimist.
