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Informationen zum Autor Og Mandino is one of the most widely read inspirational and self-help authors in the world. Former president of Success Unlimited magazine, Mandino was the first recipient of the Napoleon Hill Gold Medal Award for literary achievement. Og Mandino was a member of the Council of Peers Award for Excellence Speaker Hall of Fame and was honored with a Master of Influence Award by the National Speakers Association. Og Mandino died in 1996, but his books continue to inspire countless thousands all over the world. Klappentext A story of hope and encouragement from the bestselling author of The Return of the Ragpicker All Tulo had wanted was some light and warmth to sustain him and his tiny sister through the terrible storm. But the star which he caught in the folds of his red kite promised far from more than that. Here is the shining, joyful message the star Acabar gave to Tulo-a message meant not only for the boy but for all those who dream of changing their lives for the better. "A great story has again come from the genius of Og Mandino"-Dr. Norman Vincent PealePrologue They were wandering and hunting across more than one hundred thousand square miles of primeval wilderness, now called Lapland, long before Romulus and Remus founded Rome and Homer wrote the Iliad, long before the Hebrews entered Canaan and Stonehenge was erected in Britain, long before the Tassili rock paintings were scratched on the caves of Algeria and the great pyramid for Khufu was completed, long before Nebuchadnezzar built his hanging gardens and Gautama Buddha preached in India. The world knows them as Lapps but they call themselves Same, and there are no more than thirty-five thousand scattered in isolated villages and cabins throughout the northernmost regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and even Russia. They have suffered the most vicious of climates with courage and patience. They have tended to their families with love and compassion and trained their young, by example, in the art of living and self-reliance … and they have endured. They have never had a country or even a state they could call their own, nor have they ever accepted aid from any government. They are small in stature yet big of heart. No stranger is ever turned away from their doors nor are their homes ever locked. Crime and divorce are virtually unknown except for what they read in their few newspapers or hear on their radios. The Lapp people have been a credit to the race of man for more than eight thousand years, yet less is known about them than about any other people on the face of this planet. Certainly, in the mysterious cycles of eternity, their moment in the spotlight of history was long overdue. And so it came to pass that once upon a time … but not very long ago, mind you … in a small and desolate Lapland village far north of the Arctic Circle … a miracle occurred. If only the world had known.… One The plaintive cry of a solitary wolf echoed in the outside blackness, the dreaded sound penetrating the walls of every home and cabin in Kalvala as it swept through the desolate village on the first angry winds of winter. Tulo Mattis dropped his pencil and pushed aside the green leather-covered ledger. He held his breath and listened. The wolf howled again until a single rifle shot crackled across the frozen tundra. With a sigh of relief Tulo rose from the table and limped painfully toward his sister’s small bedroom. He paused to stroke Nikku’s thick gray fur as he passed the slumbering spitz. “Dog, you are getting old and lazy. I can remember when a howling wolf would have had you tearing holes in the door.” As he approached Jaana’s bed her frightened voice came from beneath many blankets. “Tulo, did you hear that wolf?” “Yes. Uncle Varno must have shot him. No harm...
