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A unique and uplifting gift book of a special interest to men.
Taps into public fascination with stoism and the success of author Ryan Holiday's
The Obstable is the Way.
The Daily Stoic has 300,000 plus members
The Art of Manliness has 1.2 million subscribers
The author ownes a Vancouver bookstore and was formerly a manager at
Dot Books in the U.K.
About the author
Matt Sturrock was born in 1974, and has worked for decades as a bookseller, editor, and freelancer in both Toronto and London, England. He has written for many publications, including the National Post and The Globe & Mail, and is a longtime contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. He currently resides in Vancouver, BC near the base of Mount Fromme. This is his first book. LARA GALUSTIAN is an illustrator and bookbinder based in London, England.
Summary
People who met the inevitable with elan, unflappability, dignity, or physical courage
We all have to go sometime, so why not go in a manner that reflects well on your entire life? With humanity, insight, and occasional humour, author Matt Sturrock has selected from the annals of history an eclectic group of people--an Alexandrian mathematician, a Haitian slave, an English philosopher, a Vietnamese monk--who met the inevitable with élan, unflappability, dignity, or physical courage. Many of these people lived and died continents and millennia apart. They subscribed to creeds the others in these pages would have found alien and unfathomable. Yet they are thrust together here because of their extraordinary strength of character in the face of annihilation. Their stories are irrefutable proof of the old maxim that living and dying well are ultimately inextricable.
