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Karin Jensen

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Born
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Young Adult, Children's, Memoir

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May 2015


I’ve been a passionate teacher all my life and love to help young people see beyond their immediate world of home, school, and community. The fact that book #1 in the series “Discover Remote Places”, VANUATU; THE FOREIGN EDUCATION OF ABEL, has reached bestseller status on Amazon proves that young readers are fascinated by the different and colorful cultures that make up our world.

Pat and Rosemarie Keough of the Canadian Explorers Club have hailed the book COMING OF AGE IN SULAWESI: A Tale of Tolerance and Friendship as a spring board for future study of an unknown culture, and Dr. Rizal Malik, former CEO of WWF calls the story beautifully written, with a clear message to teens.

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“Horses lend us the wings we lack.”
― Karin Jensen, Chasing Courage: Coming of Age in the Mongolian Steppe
tags: commingofage, culturalheritage, findingcourage, herderculture, horseculture, mongoliansteppe, personalgrowth, responsibility
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