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Wild Wisdom

Life Lessons from Leading Teams to some of the Most Inhospitable Places in the World
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Wild Wisdom by Christine Amour-Levar is a thrilling exploration of the author's extraordinary journeys around the globe, focusing on female empowerment and conservation. Each chapter offers an inspiring blend of personal adventure and advocacy for the environment, capturing vivid landscapes and diverse cultures. The book encourages readers to discover their inner strength while fostering a deep connection with nature.
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You might enjoy this book if you're passionate about travel and adventure, especially with an interest in stories of personal growth and discovery. This engaging read combines thrilling experiences and insightful reflections, offering inspiration from journeys that connect with nature and explore the resilience of the human spirit.

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A tale of adventure, pushing limits, humanity, and the transformative power of challenging expeditions to help us grow wiser, more compassionate, and purposeful with our lives.

Wild Wisdom recounts the story of social entrepreneur and philanthropist Christine Amour-Levar and the all-female expeditions she has led across the globe via her two non-profit organisations, Women on a Mission and HER Planet Earth. Over a decade, she has taken hundreds of women, of all nationalities, ages, and backgrounds, to off-the-beaten-track locations around the world on challenging, often pioneering, expeditions that really push them outside of their comfort zone.

She has run expeditions to some incredible places, from regions of the Arctic Circle to the coldest, windiest, and most remote continent on earth, Antarctica. Her teams have crossed the largest caves in the world in Vietnam, sailed across remote islands in Asia, and were the first all-female team to bike across the frozen Arctic Circle Trail of Greenland and the Danakil Depression of Ethiopiaโ€”the hottest place on Earth. And all these expeditions have had as their mission to raise awareness and funds for vulnerable women, transforming the lives of thousands of women and girls in the process.

By sharing her personal story and highlighting her life lessons, from growing up on multiple continents to leading teams on expeditions, she sets the stage for a new approach to caring for the human condition and the planet, at a deeper, more intrinsic, heart level. Ultimately, this is a story about roots and values, sisterhood and adventure, pushing limits, and the power of our common humanity and compassion to drive change and impact the world for the better.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789815017076

Publisher: Penguin Random House SEA

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 October 2022

Country: Singapore

Imprint: Penguin Random House SEA

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 291g

Pages: 258

About the Author

Christine Amour-Levar is a French-Swiss-Filipina philanthropist, adventurer, author and human rights advocate. She has built a global career as a marketing and communications expert and social entrepreneur intent on solving some of the world's most pressing issues. A passionate champion of female empowerment and environmental conservation, Christine co-founded Women on a Mission (WOAM) and founded HER Planet Earth, two award-winning, not-for-profit organizations that take all-female teams on pioneering expeditions as a way to support worthy causes. HER Planet Earth's primary objective is to raise awareness and funds for underprivileged women affected by climate change, while WOAM aims to empower women who have been subjected to violence and abuse. Christine is also an active board member and advisor to several purpose-led organizations in the Social Impact, Fintech and Cellular Agriculture spaces. As a writer she has published The Smart Girl's Handbook to Being Mummylicious in 2012 and contributed to international publications such as Forbes, the HuffPost, the Straits Times of Singapore, the Manila Bulletin Newspaper of the Philippines, etc., and has had speaking engagements with INSEAD, Nike, TBWA, Microsoft, Unilever, Credit Suisse, TEDx and more. Being included on Tatler Asia's Most Influential Impact List 2020, Christine has won multiple awards including the United Women Singapore Gender Equality Impact Changemaker Award, a Women of the Future Kindness and Leadership Southeast Asia Leading Lights 2020 and the '100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World' Awardโ„ข. She is currently based in Singapore, where she lives with her husband and four children.

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