Bryan Mealer staat bekend om zijn diepgaande vermogen om zich te verdiepen in de kern van complexe menselijke ervaringen en de essentiële waarheden daarin bloot te leggen. Zijn schrijven verkent vaak thema's als strijd, veerkracht en de aanhoudende zoektocht naar hoop te midden van tegenspoed. Mealers meesterlijke beheersing van taal en zijn diepe inzicht in de menselijke psyche trekken lezers naar zijn verhalen, wat een blijvende indruk achterlaat.
William Kamkwamba (Malawi, 1987) schreef dit boek in samenwerking met journalist Bryan Mealer. William Kamkwambi uit Malawi werd op 14 jarige leeftijd uit school gehaald om op het land te werken. Hij leende boeken van de bibliotheek onder andere over windenergie. Geinspireerd bouwde hij zijn eigen windturbine met metaalresten, hout etc. Een hoop op een betere toekomst.
Set against the backdrop of drought-stricken Malawi, the story follows William Kamkwamba's inspiring journey of innovation and determination. Faced with immense challenges, he dreams of building a windmill to provide electricity and water for his family. Using scrap materials, he constructs a functional windmill that powers lights and a water pump, showcasing his ingenuity and resourcefulness. William's remarkable achievements highlight themes of resilience and the transformative power of education and creativity in overcoming adversity.
Set against the backdrop of the Florida Everglades, the story follows a troubled quarterback, a returning hero, and an ambitious scholar as they navigate the challenges of high school football. Each character faces personal demons and societal pressures, highlighting themes of resilience and the quest for redemption in a community where football represents their only hope for escape.
A foreign correspondent's gripping account of his experiences in Congo, told through the long scope of the country's dark and brutal history.After covering a brutal war that claimed four million lives, journalist Bryan Mealer takes readers on a harrowing two-thousand-mile journey through Congo, where gun-toting militia still rape and kill with impunity. Amid burned-out battlefields, the dark corners of the forests, and the high savanna, where thousands have been massacred and quickly forgotten, Mealer searches for signs that Africa's most troubled nation will soon rise from ruin.At once illuminating and startling, All Things Must Fight to Live is a searing portrait of an emerging country devastated by a decade of war and horror and now facing almost impossible odds at recovery, as well as an unflinching look at the darkness and greed that exists in the hearts of men. It is nonfiction at its finest―powerful, moving, necessary.
"In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history"--Provided by publisher.
A saga of family, fortune, failure and Texas, where blood may be thicker than water, but oil is king.
