The Journey To The End Of The World

Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in Northern Sweden. But first he must face up to the past and meet his mother who ran off when he was little. After such a long time how will Joel and his dad cope with such a reunion and will Joel ever sail the seas as he dreams. . . ?

JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH, Introducing William Seymour -- Jerry Newman doesn't mean to keep getting into trouble-it just sort of happens. But when a practical joke goes wrong, burning down a church in his small east Texas town, Jerry's widowed mother quickly sends him to live with his journalist uncle in Los Angeles. Jerry is secretly pleased-not only to avoid being punished for his crime but also to live in California . . . the end of the earth! On the night before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Jerry and his uncle go to investigate a popular warehouse church in Los Angeles. There, they hear a man predict the coming quake. But Jerry is even more impressed by the powerful preacher, William Seymour, and by the hundreds of blacks and whites worshiping and praying together in strange "tongues." Jerry wants to believe Seymour's message, but will he do so when it means confessing his dangerous secret? A simple message that shakes the world ...

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future, by the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine. “Deeply funny and life-affirming, with a warm, generous outlook even on the most challenging of subjects.” —Esquire We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there’s an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O’Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization’s collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited—real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. What emerges is an absorbing, funny, and deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with what’s ahead.

When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.

There are going to be a series of events that will lead us to the end of the world. There will be a Rapture, and with this event, all believers in Jesus Christ will disappear from the earth. Then there will be a tribulation period, and this will last for seven years. During this time, the world will experience the wrath of God, and it will be furious.The tribulation will be followed by the battle of Armageddon, and then the Millennium (one thousand years) period.This book, The Journey to the End of the World: How We Are Going to Get There, depicts in great detail all the events that will take place from now and all the way to heaven.-Lawrence Payne

"Journey to the End of the World" is a riveting tale of adventure, self-discovery, and the relentless pursuit of dreams in the face of impossible odds. This novel transports readers to breathtaking landscapes, from the bustling streets of modern cities to the untamed wilderness at the world's edge. The story follows the life of protagonist Alex, a young, intrepid explorer driven by an insatiable thirst for the unknown and the unexplored. Alex’s journey is not just a physical expedition but a deep dive into human courage, resilience, and the power of ambition. As Alex embarks on this life-changing adventure, the narrative weaves through the challenges of planning and preparing for such an extraordinary expedition. Readers are taken on a roller-coaster of emotions, experiencing the highs of discovering uncharted territories and the lows of navigating personal fears and external setbacks. The book brilliantly captures the essence of exploration and adventure, making readers feel part of the journey, experiencing the awe and wonder of discovering new horizons. Beyond the physical journey, "Journey to the End of the World" delves into the psychological and emotional transformation accompanying such an epic quest. Alex's character evolves profoundly, shaped by encounters with diverse cultures, the raw beauty of nature, and the realization of human existence's smallness in the vastness of the universe. The story masterfully explores themes of isolation, the significance of human connection, and the eternal quest for meaning and purpose in life. In its climactic conclusion, the novel ends Alex’s physical journey and marks the beginning of a new understanding of life and the world. The narrative leaves readers contemplating the profound impact of stepping into the unknown and the indelible changes it brings to one’s perspective. "Journey to the End of the World" is more than just a story about travel and adventure; it is a testament to the transformative power of following one's dreams and the enduring spirit of human exploration.

An urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. As Greenland's ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns

To the End of the Earth tells thrilling true adventure of a deadly trek to the North Pole, a 100 year old mystery and an inspiring tale of polar exploration April 2009 is the one-hundredth anniversary of perhaps the greatest controversy in the history of exploration. Did U.S. Naval Commander Robert Peary and his team dogsled to the North Pole in thirty-seven days in 1909? Or, as has been challenged, was this speed impossible, and was he a cheat? In 2005, polar explorer Tom Avery and his team set out to recreate this 100-year-old journey, using the same equipment as Peary, to prove that Peary had indeed done what he had claimed and discovered the North Pole. Navigating treacherous pressure ridges, deadly channels of open water, bitterly cold temperatures, and traveling in a similar style to Peary's with dog teams and replica wooden sledges bound together with cord, Avery tells the story of how his team covered 413 nautical miles to the North Pole in thirty-six days and twenty-two hours—some four hours faster than Peary. Weaving fascinating polar exploration history with thrilling extreme adventure, this is Avery's story of how he and his team nearly gave their lives proving Peary told the truth.