The Pilgrimage Chronicles: Embrace the Quest - Torkildson, Tor and Siffy
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What is your Quest in life? "The Pilgrimage Chronicles: Embrace the Quest," created and edited by Tor and Siffy Torkildson, leads us on a series of pilgrimages and explorations to the far reaches of the planet in search of and to celebrate the meaning of life in 33 essays. "The Pilgrimage Chronicles" is a unique travel book; it is a journey into the hidden territories of the human spirit and heart. This is a book of quests, transformation, life lessons, spiritual awakening, and deep contemplative travel both physically and metaphysically. This spirited collection, from an array of accomplished…mehr

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What is your Quest in life? "The Pilgrimage Chronicles: Embrace the Quest," created and edited by Tor and Siffy Torkildson, leads us on a series of pilgrimages and explorations to the far reaches of the planet in search of and to celebrate the meaning of life in 33 essays. "The Pilgrimage Chronicles" is a unique travel book; it is a journey into the hidden territories of the human spirit and heart. This is a book of quests, transformation, life lessons, spiritual awakening, and deep contemplative travel both physically and metaphysically. This spirited collection, from an array of accomplished writers, pilgrims and explorers, will leave you inspired and hopeful."The Pilgrimage Chronicles" brings together a vast archive of talent, knowledge, and direct experience. It is a celebration of the human spirit, a tapestry of diversity, and a testament to living one's dreams. This book will inspire the reader to seek out the life they imagined."The Pilgrimage Chronicles: Embrace the Quest" is the second book in the Chronicles series. Published by Sacred World Explorations, Alaska."This wonderful anthology will inspire you to pursue your own quest and seek the life you have always imagined." Wade Davis"If curiosity is your religion, and high adventure your cup of tea, this book is guaranteed to spin your prayer wheel and satiate your thirst." Pat Morrow "This selection of personal narratives is the who's-who of the greatest writers and explorers on earth." James Dorsey "Alpinism is activity and storytelling....Torkildson's collection is proof." Reinhold Messner "The Pilgrimage Chronicles: Embrace the Quest brings together absorbing accounts of exceptional explorers from around the world. It is the kind of book that takes readers on journeys, physical and mental, that will stick in their minds for a long time to come. Only a year after their book The Walkabout Chronicles appeared, the editors, Tor and Siffy, have managed to once again pull off an important publishing event." Johan Reinhard
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Peripatetic traveler, Rob 'Tor' Torkildson, is a lifelong seeker and explorer who has worked and lived around the world for the last 30 years. Torkildson has tramped through the Amazon, over the Himalaya, and across the Sahara in his quest to experience sacred landscapes in over 120 countries. He has worked as a diver, commercial fisherman, ship navigator, customs and immigration expert, writer and publisher, a fixer in Africa, and as a vintner and owner of The Wild Hare Winery in San't Alfio, Sicily. Torkildson has published three travel memoirs, a novella, and in such magazines as the Kyoto Journal, Beat Scene, Ripcord Adventure Journal, Canadian Mountain Journal, and has won a Solas Award-Gold Medal from Travelers' Tales. Torkildson has degrees in Asian History and Psychology. He is a international fellow of the Explorers Club. Caroline 'Siffy' Torkildson is a geographer, cartographer, life-long star gazer, author, and book designer for Sacred World Explorations. She has worked at two science museums, an international mapping firm, as a researcher for the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and taught an introduction to the history of women explorers at Southern Oregon College, as well as astronomy at the Eisenhower Observatory in Minnesota. She has published a travel guide book, as well as a travel-memoir and is working on a book that follows in the footsteps of the adventurer, Annie Smith Peck. She has published in Ripcord Adventure Journal and has won a Travelers' Tales Solas Award. Torkildson has B.A. and M.A. degrees in geography from Humboldt State University in California, as well as a M.S. in geographic information science from St. Mary's University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, as well as the International Dark Sky Association. In her search for sacred landscapes and dark skies, Siffy has explored the Himalaya, Sahara, Europe, Alaska, Patagonia, and lived in Madagascar where she served in the Peace Corps.