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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375415068
ISBN-13: 9780375415067
Apr 2004
Publisher: Random House Inc
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Condition: Like New
Seller's Comments: Book Description: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, 2004. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book Condition: Like New. Dustjacket Condition: Very Good. 223 pages.
Full Description:
Pico Iyer -- one of the most compelling and profound provocative travel writers -- invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist attraction is a collection of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and travels through southern Arabia in the weeks before September 11, 2001. He practices meditiation with Leonard Cohen and discusses geopolitics with the Dalai Lama, travels to Easter Island and through the imaginative terrains of W. G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro, weaving physical and psychological challenges together in a seamless narrative. Throughout his travels, the familiar thrill of adventure is haunted by the unsettling questions that arise for Iyer everywhere he goes: How do we reconcile suffering with the sunlight often found around it? How does the foreign instruct the traveler, precisely by discomfiting him? And how does travel take us more deeply into reality, both within us and without? Intensely affecting, Iyer's explorations are a roadmap of thinking in new ways about our changing world. |
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