From the internationally beloved YouTube adventurer and National Geographic TV host, a singular and fearless new travel memoir packed with inspiration for leading a more vibrant, wild, and authentic life.
Are you living with a capital ';L'? When was the last time you truly felt you were your wildest, most free, most alive self? Eva zu Beck, professional storyteller and avid adventurer believes our best life is available to each of us, in every moment. But we have to seize it. The comfort we crave can also be ';a silent killer of dreams.' Whether your dream is to scale a foreign mountain, hike a local trail, or pick up a paint brush, Eva's message is clear: The world belongs to the brave.
But it wasn't always this way: Seven years ago, Eva was a young, well-paid corporate executive living the high life in London, dressed in designer clothes with a handsome, equally successful fianc on her arm. But as she walked down the aisle on the day of her wedding, the tears she shed were not tears of joy as their guests thought, but of a deep, unnamed sadness. Nearly a year later, Eva quit her high-paying job, left her picture-perfect marriage, and bought a one-way ticket to Nepal.
What she didn't know then was that she was embarking on a seven-year journey that would take her from Mongolia's wilderness to Yemen's remote islands to the Arctic Circleand ultimately to a life of profound meaning and purpose. This extraordinary memoir chronicles one woman's transformation from someone living society's idea of a best life to a person discovering the truth of her own.
Through heart-pounding adventures and raw, intimate storytelling, Eva reveals how stepping off life's conventional highwaywhat she calls the path of ';mortgage, marriage, lineage'opened her world to experiences she never imagined possible: learning to trek solo with horses across Mongolia, surviving three months alone on a desert island in Yemen during COVID, driving an eighteen-y
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