Vietnam in the Absence of War: One Immoral War, Two Revealing Bicycle Trips

!±8± Vietnam in the Absence of War: One Immoral War, Two Revealing Bicycle Trips

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Do you contemplate a visit to Vietnam? This book shows you what to expect, whether by bicycle or other means. There are many observations about the country.

Did you protest the Vietnam War once? This book is partly about Vietnam as an unenthused draftee, but mostly about what has happened there since, plus a bit about Vietnam long ago.

This isn't a book of war stories, and there are no made-up tales such as bicycles crashing over cliffs. Rather, it's a factual and informative account of a fascinating country and its people, including 159 color photographs plus maps and drawings.

It's NOT the Vietnam that many thought they knew!

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Bombay Smiles: The Trip that Changed My Life

!±8±Bombay Smiles: The Trip that Changed My Life

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“[Jaume] Sanllorente’s story, reminiscent of Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, is remarkable and uplifting.”—Booklist

In 2003, Jaume Sanllorente was a young journalist leading an active and exciting life in Barcelona—no more idealistic than any other young professional. Then a travel agent convinced him to spend his vacation in India. Amazed by what he saw in the land of sacred cows and shocking poverty, Jaume was transformed.

That experience lead him to reconsider the world he lived in and caused him to think that he might do something to make it a little better. He devoted himself to helping a small orphanage in Bombay, one that was about to close its doors and send its forty children back to the streets (and the brothels) from which they had been rescued. Jaume seized the moment, determined not to let that happen. As a consequence, he changed his life, and much more as well.

In Bombay Smiles, Jaume Sanllorente gives us an insightful and loving vision of a country of great contrasts. He reveals that the secret of his own happiness is in seeking happiness for others.

Bombay Smiles is a story of loneliness, ransoms, dangers, injustices, threats of death, and acts of courage, which give an example to follow in spite of the adversities one might meet. It is a lesson of wise love, surrender, sacrifice, and hope, which invites us to start on the path toward a better world.

Jaume Sanllorente was born in 1976 in Barcelona, Spain. His nonprofit organization, Bombay Smiles, provides schools, homes, and health care to thousands of children in India.

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