Butterfly - From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph

"Being a refugee is not a choice. Our choice is to die at home or risk death trying to escape." - Yusra Mardini Yusra Mardini fled her native Syria to the Turkish coast in 2015 and boarded a small dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat''s engine cut out, it began to sink. Yusra, her sister and two others took to the water, pushing the boat for three and a half hours in open water until they eventually landed on Lesbos, saving the lives of the passengers aboard. Butterfly is the story of that remarkable woman, whose journey started in a war-torn suburb of Damascus and took her through Europe to Berlin and from there to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Yusra Mardini is an athlete, one of People magazine''s twenty-five women changing the world, a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and one of Time Magazine''s thirty most influential teens of 2016.

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Yusra, we could not be prouder of you for your courage and your resilience and the great example that you're setting for children everywhere. President Barack Obama

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yusra Mardini, Mardini Yusra
• Con la collaborazione di: Elisabeth Liebl (Traduzione)
• Editore: Bluebird
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781509881680
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-8168-0
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Biografie romanzate; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie