Product Description
Katie began working her way into Shaun’s heart in the weeks before he left, but she couldn’t hold him back. Would she ever hold him again?
This true story details a search for the significant questions of life that must preceed any meaningful answers. A search through beauty and love and adventure and loss for the wisdom to know when to hold on and when to let go.
Sometimes you must stare into the jaws of death to fully appreciate life. Unwilling to resist the siren song of first-hand experience, Shaun’s journey carries him into the salt spray of dangerously high seas, through frothy, typhoon-swollen rivers, and below shattered, crumbling mountainsides that come crashing down around his feet. Passion for living offered no alternatives.
This journey carries him on motorcycles through crowded city streets and wide-open tropical island beaches, on trains rolling for days across the world’s most populous country, hiking alone along the Great Wall of China, finding work and falling in love with the Orient and its people, starting over again and again and again, discovering what it truly means to live, and what living truly costs.
Shaun's engaging writing style will pull you straight into living the adventure yourself. Immerse yourself in an exciting, beautiful world you never knew existed. Gather a lifetime of experience in 168 action-packed, heavily illustrated pages. The essays, vignettes, poetry and unique formats that have yet to be named will keep you telling yourself "Just one more page...."
Sometimes it takes a journey of 20,000 miles to finally arrive at one’s own heart. Find your ticket to the journey inside An American in China: starting over.
About the Author
1. Passion for Living. Shaun's enthusiasm, introspection, and determination to move beyond fear and the grief of loss created the experiences contained within these pages and shaped them into a form which anyone can enjoy and gain valuable experience from. "You're not afraid of anything," a friend recently told him. "And if you are, you run toward it!"
2. International Experience. Shaun has spent over five years living on four continents and one tropical island, speaks more than four languages (including three language minors and a linguistics certificate), and has studied the intricacies of culture, all of which adds to the reader's rich experience.
3. Writing Experience. Along with a MA in creative writing, eight years of teaching college students to make their own writing say something important and jump off the page with cogent concepts, dialogue and description have had a clear impact on his own writing. "I think my favorite tribute for teaching," he relates, "came one day when the department secretary came to class to administer the teaching reviews, and as I left the room, two students climbed onto their desks and shouted 'Oh captain, my captain!'"
Shaun is the author of the popular Gone but not Forgotten, its sequel The Perfect Gift, and other articles and forthcoming books.
