These Are Your Endorphins Speaking - Spencer, John
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Australians are great travellers, possibly because most Australians are immigrants or the sons and daughters of immigrants. I'm sure there has been a gene selected for the Australian population simply because we're all immigrants. I chose to travel by bicycle around Italy, not because I am particularly green, although knowing that the only greenhouse gases I generated were those that I transpired was seductive, but because it was obviously a very efficient way of moving through a landscape that is essentially a vast, open air museum. This is not the story of just where I went and who I met,…mehr

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Australians are great travellers, possibly because most Australians are immigrants or the sons and daughters of immigrants. I'm sure there has been a gene selected for the Australian population simply because we're all immigrants. I chose to travel by bicycle around Italy, not because I am particularly green, although knowing that the only greenhouse gases I generated were those that I transpired was seductive, but because it was obviously a very efficient way of moving through a landscape that is essentially a vast, open air museum. This is not the story of just where I went and who I met, but also what I saw and, most importantly, what I thought and felt. The tour yielded a return far in excess of the calorific effort that went into it. I was a 61-year-old man at the time, living with prostate cancer, in need of a travel experience that would teach me something about the meaning of life. This account captures something of the excitement and wonder of exploring, by bike, what is undoubtedly one of the great civilizations. About the Author: John Spencer grew up in Broken Hill, a mining town in Western NSW, Australia, and currently lives in Condobolin in Central Western NSW, Australia. John is married with two children; he is retired and often takes on project work that interests him. These Are Your Endorphins Speaking is his first book. Publisher's Web site: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheseAreYourEndorphinsSpeaking.html
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John Spencer is an award-winning scholar, professor, author, combatveteran, and internationally recognized expert and advisor on urban warfareand other military related topics. Considered the world's leading expert onurban warfare, he served as an advisor to the top four-star general andother senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groupsfrom the Pentagon and the United States Military Academy. Spencer is theChair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point,co-director of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban WarfareProject podcast. He is also the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies with theMadison Policy Forum and a Colonel in the California State Guard withassignment to the 40th Infantry Division, California Army National Guardas the Director of Urban Warfare Training. Serving over twenty-five years inthe active Army as an infantry soldier, Spencer has held ranks from privateto sergeant first class and second lieutenant to major. His assignments asan officer included combat deployments to Iraq as a platoon leader andcompany commander; an instructor in the U.S. Army's Ranger School; aJoint Chief of Staff and Army staff intern; fellow with the Chief of Staff of the Army's Strategic Studies Group; and co-founder, strategic planner,and deputy director of the Modern War Institute at West Point.