02261cam a2200349 4500 424181049 TxAuBib 20200519120000.0 200106s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019030639 9781640092921 HRD 26.00 1640092927 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib Downs, Maggie. Braver than you think [BOOK] : around the world on the trip of my (mother's) life / Maggie Downs. 1st hc ed. Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020. 4, 285 pages ; 24 cm. Love -- Death -- Life. "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. 20200519. 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.