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An Avery/Penguin Random House first edition, first printing hardcover in fine condition. Boards are clean, bright, and square throughout with no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged, fine in all respects with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are clean and bright throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. Published by Avery (Penguin Random House), New York, in October 2018, this first edition, first printing hardcover of Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life was an instant New York Times bestseller by Gisele Bündchen — one of the most recognised supermodels in fashion history, named by Forbes as one of the Most Powerful Women in the World and listed among the world's most generous celebrities. Bündchen serves as Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme and was named by Harvard University as a Global Environmental Citizen. Born in Horizontina in southern Brazil, she grew up barefoot with five sisters, playing volleyball and rescuing stray animals, before a chance encounter with a modelling scout in São Paulo at fourteen set her on a different path. Her appearance in Alexander McQueen's memorably rain-soaked London runway show in 1998 launched a career encompassing nearly 400 advertising campaigns and over 1,200 magazine covers. Written with the openness and vulnerability of a private woman speaking publicly for the first time about her real self, the book traces the lessons — about family, faith, health, environment, and purpose — that have shaped her life. Illustrated throughout with personal photographs. All author profits benefit the Luz Foundation, established by Bündchen in 2007 to support social and environmental causes worldwide. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.