At age 34, newly married and established in her career as an award-winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo Trip of a lifetime: Her mother\'s. com..
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Braver Than You Think is her first book.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Palm Springs Life, and Mc Sweeney\'s and has been anthologized in The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True Stories from the World\'s Best Writers and Best Women\'s Travel Writing.
About the Author MAGGIE Downs is an award-winning writer based in Palm Springs, California.
By embarking on an international journey, Downs learned to make every moment count--traveling Around the globe and home again, losing a parent while discovering the world.
Interweaving travelogue with family memories, Braver Than You Think takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, white-water rafting on the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt.
That statement would guide her as, over the course of one year, Downs backpacked through seventeen countries--visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer\'s disease, could not visit herself--encountering some of the world\'s most striking locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother. "You are Braver Than you think," her mother always insisted.
As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing.
At age 34, newly married and established in her career as an award-winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo Trip of a lifetime: Her mother\'s
