<DIV><B>An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive . . . one breath at a time</B><BR><BR> While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck. As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care-in excruciating pain, certain she was moments from death-Alison drew upon years of meditation practice and concentrated on every breath as if it would be her last.<BR><BR> Despite countless surgeries and a grueling recovery, Alison set herself the goal of achieving a new dream: to one day climb Mount Kilimanjaro-and she reached the summit on her fortieth birthday. Gasping for air once again, she stood at the highest point in Africa, determined to never again take a single breath for granted. Perfect for readers who love spiritual authors traveling abroad, such as Elizabeth Gilbert (<I>Eat, Pray, Love</I>) and Greg Mortenson (<I>Three Cups of Tea</I>), this memoir is an amazingly inspirational tale of how a life-changing accident transformed one woman's faith.<BR><BR></DIV>