Eventually I plan to create a web page for Tiernay West, Professional Adventurer (working title). But as something of a teaser (or maybe just for fun), some Tiernay-statements from the book:
The World According to Tiernay
- There’s more adventure out there than most people think, if you know where to look.
- The best adventures all begin with legends that no one believes.
- Adventurers don’t care what other people think.
- An adventurer doesn’t get to choose her native guides.
- An adventurer knows when the odds are against her.
- An adventurer is gracious, even to defeated enemies.
- Adventurers are good at redeeming the past.
- School is so strange. When you grow up, you can adventure full time instead.
- Adventurers aren’t good at waiting.
- Sighing isn’t a very adventurer-like thing to do.
- Sometimes, an adventurer needs rescuers and guides and outside advice. But sometimes, she has to follow her own instincts.
- Adventurers look at all the possibilities.
- Adventurers never do things simply because they’re easy.
- Adventurers don’t care what other people think.
- You have to start somewhere, en route to the far reaches of the earth.
- The only way to redeem history is to make more of it.