Luis Peaze

Alvidia, Yet Another Horizon (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Peaze, Luis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is a different kind of adventure story. It deals with the realization of a dream which became an inner adventure. Luís and Helga, an ordinary Brazilian couple embark on this frenzy trip of partnership which bumped into them out of the blue.

Including a passage sharing a house with Bhagavan Das in Mill Valley, CA, an icon from the beatnik era who inspired Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and Ram Das among many, Luís unfold a collection of encounters with people, places and circumstances feeding his search and endurance…

A fast paced true story hard to believe these two dreamers had been be able to face with so many odds against them, so many antagonistic events competing to occur almost on the same time. They leave behind a stable ordinary life, he as corporate executive, she as taking her master degree, they are invited to open a factory in the United States, they clash with partners, then go to Australia to open another factory, and once again come back to America at the border of Mexico (Chula Vista) to re-start a third factory, all within four tough years. In route to another definitive clash, they decided to go sole owners as manufacturing owners in Australia, with some stocks from the other in the USA. Their bank account began to grow, but…

Then, apparently without a reason, they give it all up and resolve to go for a real dream, an old one, to build "Alvídia", a wooden sailboat. Sold the profitable business, and with the pace of a snap-shot, never having built anything and never having sailed at all, they throw themselves into the most dangerous, challenging seas anywhere in the world and finally find the peace of mind.

During the whole process the fast pace of happenings seemed to be their pattern of life although not intentional. After building Alvídia in a record time, they sail her for more than five thousand miles from the south to the north coast of Australia. Every island a paradise, every anchorage indescribably beautiful, every leg of the voyage ending at sunset, far beyond the morning's horizon…this is the backdrop of the dream of owning a sailboat, of building it and of an unforgettable ocean crossing meeting true angels along the way so it was their experience of getting help from unknown people whom become their supporters friends. The story, from start to finish, includes encounters with celebrities and even sharing a house with Bhagavan Das, the Guru of Ram Das (author of Be Here Now) and Allen Ginsberg, is more than anything else, an apprenticeship that: "…sometimes one has to lose in order to win." Yet, the story told by Luis Peazê, is a necessary adventure.

"Alvídia" was written between Malaysia, South Africa and Argentina while Luís Peazê was traveling through those countries in 1996.

"I could not stop reading. At times I was nervous, then all of the sudden I had a blast. Amazing inspiring life story" Roberto Barros (reader)

"Among the best Brazilian authors I have ever read. Well written, instigate, inspiring, captures ones attention for sure" Alan Clarke (translator and ex-agent in USA for Paulo Coelho)

"Helga and Luis proved to me that love does exist" Nani (reader)

"Unique spiral structure of the narrative, which we felt very much lent itself to the adventure (...) gorgeous." Jane Dystel (Literary Agent, New York)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Capt Lui LLC
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780692084663
• Artikelnr.: 52007907

Autorenporträt

Luís Peazê (1958) was born in Canoas, RS, Brazil. His family being from the Pampa Gaucho. Listed in the Brazilian Literature Encyclopedia as writer, journalist and translator; member of the Hemingway Society, PEN Club, and IGKT - International Guild of Knots Tyers (London). Peazê studied at a parochial school and eventually moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1978, where he began to make his way in the working world, not before a quick stop at Flamengo Soccer Club and few other soccer clubs from the major league to retire from soccer and dedicate to computer programming, later to System Analyst and so on... In the years between 1987 and 2000 he also lived and worked in the United States and Australia before returning to Brazil. He has been everything from a Systems Analyst to an award winning Ad-Man, an entrepreneur in plastics (active lifestyle products) and a manufacturer in California and Melbourne. Peazê is an acclaimed translator of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway. Founder (2003) and President of the Brazilian Coastal Institute, an NGO dedicated to building awareness of the coastal and marine environment; he also is a builder and enthusiast of wooden boats, the first Brazilian to exhibit at the Wooden Boat Festival (Washington, USA), for which he built a replica of a Herreshoff 12¿, and he was made (2009) Consul in Brazil for the Wooden Boat Foundation & Northwest Maritime Center (USA). Peazê has worked extensively in the marine and oceanography field in Brazil, and has been awarded medals by the Brazilian Navy. His works have also been cited by academics (professors and students) in the fields of Literature, Soccer, Journalism, Medicine, Law, Environment and Oceanography. Among his works: Alvidia, Yet Another Horizon (adventure); Santiago and the Sea (novel); Crônico - A História da Crônica (literature gender chronicle; O Elo Perdido da Medicina (Medicine); all in Portuguese. From 1997 to 2018 he was the founder CEO-Editor of Clinica Literaria - services & news agency Ltda. He maintains the online magazine www.conversanopier.com.br/news Married to Helga Leal (social scientist), he has a son Lucas, born in USA, and lists among his passions good literature and boats, coffee & wine, his permanent state of mind. More about Luis Peazê www.luispeaze.com