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Butterfly - From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph (Paperback)
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Butterfly - From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 190
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The inspirational story behind the film The Swimmers on Netflix, by
Syrian refugee and Olympic swimmer, Yusra Mardini. 'An
extraordinary tale of bravery, survival, and winsome, never-give-up
moxie. It is impossible not to be won over by Yusra.' - Khaled
Hosseini It's important the world understands what many ordinary
people must endure to find a safe place to live. If it will help
others, I'll tell my story a million times. When war broke out in
her native Syria, Yusra Mardini fled 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.
Instinctively, Yusra and her sister took to the treacherous open
water and guided the boat for three and a half hours, helped by two
other refugees, 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 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. Yusra Mardini is an
athlete, one of People magazine's twenty-five women changing the
world, on the list of TIME Magazine's most influential teens, and
one of the the youngest UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors. Yusra's and her
sister Sara's story is the subject of a major Netflix film
documenting her life, written by Jack Thorne. Now with an updated
afterword.
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