Title: To Shake the Sleeping Self Pdf A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Author: Jedidiah Jenkins
Published Date: 2018-10-02
Page: 336
“A thrilling, tender, utterly absorbing book. With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart. We laugh. We cry. We feel the glory and the agony of his adventure; the monotony and the magic; the grace and the grit. Every page of this book made me ache to know what happened next. Every chapter shimmered with truth. It’s an unforgettable debut.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things“Jenkins’ words are brutally honest and leave me thinking a little deeper about my own observations when I pass a stranger on a street or see a flower blooming on a rocky trail.” —Outside Magazine"Thought-provoking and inspirational . . . This uplifting memoir and travelogue will remind readers of the power of movement for the body and the soul."—Publishers Weekly “Jedidiah Jenkins is a storyteller. He’s also an adventurer, a connoisseur of good pourovers, an avid Instagram user, a startup co-founder, and one of those humans that makes everything about them seem inviting.” —USA Today “[Jenkins is] a guy deeply connected to his personal truth and just so refreshingly present.” —Rich Roll, author of Finding Ultra “This is much more than a book about a bike ride. This is a deep soul deepening us. Jedidiah Jenkins is a mystic disguised as a millennial.” —Tom Shadyac, author of Life’s Operating Manual Jedidiah Jenkins is a travel writer, entrepreneur, and Instagram personality. A graduate of USC and Pepperdine University School of Law, Jenkins began his professional career with the nonprofit Invisible Children, where he helped orchestrate multinational campaigns to end the use of child soldiers in central Africa. His parents, Peter and Barbara Jenkins, are the authors of the bestselling A Walk Across America series. He is the executive editor of Wilderness magazine; his work has appeared in the Paris Review and Good magazine; and his journey was covered by National Geographic.
From travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins comes a long-awaited memoir of adventure, struggle, and lessons learned while bicycling the 14,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia.
On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent the next sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and profound reflections on life soon attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and got him featured by National Geographic and The Paris Review.
In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates the adventure that started it all: the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world, and the internal journey that prompted it. As he traverses cities, mountains, and inner boundaries, Jenkins grapples with the questions of what it means to be an adult, his struggle to reconcile his sexual identity with his conservative Christian upbringing, and his belief in travel as a way to "wake us up" to life back home.
A soul-stirring read for the wanderer in each of us, To Shake the Sleeping Self is an unforgettable reflection on adventure, identity, and a life lived without regret.
Underwhelming As many other reviewers have stated, I really wanted to like this book but it just wasn't that great. I enjoyed the first few paragraphs but it quickly became redundant in content and skill. I think he went as deep as he was capable of but it wasn't brave or deep enough for me! It seems contrived. The writings of a naive 30 year old being guided into a career as an influencer. His deepest conversations about religion and sexuality were very surface and didn't strike me as deep at all. No sleeping self was shaken awake as far as I could tell. I think this book appeals to a certain group of hipster bloggers and influencers...which is great for his career but not a book I would rec to my circle of friends.Awesome accomplishment, well told but little learned Three and a half stars (if I could give halves). I couldn't put this book down, which is a tribute to how well it was written and its subject matter--a 16-month long bicycle trip from Oregon to Pategonia. Also, I really liked the way the author honestly struggled with his inner self. However, in the end, the journey doesn't really change him in any significant way. He enters our lives at the beginning of the book a half-convinced evangelical Christian struggling with sin, and leaves us at the end pretty much the same. Worth reading for the descriptions of the trip (I was pretty jealous and seized with wanderlust), but not something that will spiritually inspire.Is this what adventure has become? Why did the author even choose to make this a bicycle journey when he knew nothing or had never done a bicycle adventure? As it turns out he could have easily made this into a hitch-hiking/bus taking adventure and not lost anything. And to top it off rather than pick a more experienced partner he picks someone less prepared for this type of trip. I personally think his primary motive was how can I sell as many books as possible and the bike thing was all a rouse to make it sound like an adventure.Maybe his next book will be about climbing Mt. Everest and halfway up fly home for the holidays and then return to finish it. Or , run the Boston Marathon but take a bus up Heartbreak Hill? How can he justify this? Because “it's my journey, my life”. It just doesn't appeal to me when a bicycle adventure quickly evolves in a hitch hiking/bus riding/couch surfing/tinder social experiment.
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