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100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred * Inspiring * Mysterious * Enlightening by Iyer Pico
$29.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
Certain special places move us at a profound level - with a kind of inner beauty that puts us in direct touch with the spirit. It might be a temple, a church, a commemorative monument, a wayside shrine or a landscape feature that is saturated in the ambience of ancient sacred traditions. Such places are ...Show more
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few ot ...Show more
Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico IYER
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Meditation on impermanence, mortality & grief
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with ...Show more
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: TED | Reading Level: very good
Part of the TED series: The Art of Stillness In this age of constant movement and connectedness, when so many of us are all over the place, perhaps staying in one place - and locating everything we need for peace and happiness there - is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by Pico Iyer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Reading Level: very good
'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul' Elizabeth Gilbert 'In elegant and ecstatic prose, Pico Iyer uncovers our wonderful capacity for hope' Katherine May One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on ...Show more
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father's) for the last three decades - an ongoing exploration of his message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama's position- though he has brought t ...Show more
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