The Great Run - Softcover

Malherbe, Braam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1920289437 ISBN 13: 9781920289430

Publisher: Sunbird Publishers Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

In running the main intact section of the Great Wall, 4 500 kilometres end to end, the author and his running partner David Grier set a world first. This book concludes with the writer running into a new vision of healing the planet, step by small step, one person at a time.

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About the Author

BRAAM MALHERBE is an adventurer, author and motivational speaker. He is best known for the 2006 “Miles for Smiles” challenge in which he and David Grier ran, walked and climbed the entire 4200 km length of the Great Wall of China in just 98 days and raised awareness and money for Operation Smile. Braam has dedicated his life to making a difference. Braam is committed to being an asset to the earth and to assist others who share that commitment. Braam is currently planning his next challenge – a challenge that faces us all: how to fix the mess we've made of our home, planet Earth.

Review

Most Inspiring!The Great Run by Braam Malherbe is an amazing story about and by this man who refuses to hear the word Impossible. Since he was twelve growing up in South Africa he was called to the wild and did his first monumental climb into the mountains and stayed for a week communing with nature and felt the call to save the earth. His next run at 17 was from Plettenberg Bay to Cape Town for which he raised enough consciousness and money to save Langebaan Lagoon from environmentally destructive construction of a jetty. At 31 he ran from Tsisikamma National Park to Table Top Mountain National Park to raise money to stop poaching in national parks. But he still felt called to conquer more: something that no person had ever done and which was deemed impossible. He and his friend David Grier accomplished the impossible: they ran the entire length of the Great Wall of China, which had never been done before and will never be done again because China has now forbidden it. The planning had to be precise because of the inclement weather conditions during certain times of the year, and the entire fete had to be accomplished in four months, running a full marathon every day! The book details the personal quest and the enormous way Braam's entire psyche was changed as he made this grueling run, deciding as he daily faced possible death, what was truly important in life. The book is magnificent and you can experience life-changing moments also as you share his. He is an excellent writer and always runs for a cause to help humanity and the earth we live on.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sunbird Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1920289437
• ISBN 13: 9781920289430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192