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Books by Pico Iyer






The Art of Stillness(1st Edition)
Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
by Pico Iyer, Eydis Einarsdottir
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Simon & Schuster/ Ted
ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-8472-4, ISBN: 1-4767-8472-8

"A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug. Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ultimate adventure? Because in our madly ..."






The Open Road(Reprint)
The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Vintage Departures)
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38755-4, ISBN: 0-307-38755-0

"For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most singular figures of our time, explaining the Dalai Lama's work and ideas about politics, science, technology, and religion. For Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, The ..."






Falling Off the Map(Reprint)
Some Lonely Places of The World - Noe Available
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74612-6, ISBN: 0-679-74612-9

"The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious."






Video Night in Kathmandu(Reprint)
And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1989 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72216-8, ISBN: 0-679-72216-5

"Video Night in Kathmandu When TIME magazine writer Pico Iyer set out to explore the East, what he found was: Mohawk haircuts in Bali; yuppies in Hong Kong, a local movie industry that produces not one, but five Rambo ripoffs in Bombay; and young Filipinos rendering a perfect imitation of the latest Madonna song. Full description"






Autumn Light(Reprint)
Season of Fire and Farewells
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97346-2, ISBN: 1-101-97346-3

"The much-anticipated new book from one of our most revered travel writers; a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, have a small home. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to gra ..."






The Lady and the Monk(1st Edition)
Four Seasons in Kyoto
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage Departures
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73834-3, ISBN: 0-679-73834-7

"When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still l ..."






Vintage Departures Ser.
A Beginner's Guide to Japan : Observations and Provocations
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97347-9, ISBN: 1-101-97347-1






Sun After Dark(Reprint)
Flights Into the Foreign
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3103-0, ISBN: 1-4000-3103-6

"One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer’s latest itinerary. Bu ..."






The Open Road(1st Edition)
The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
by Pico Iyer
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26760-3, ISBN: 0-307-26760-1

"One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.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 i ..."






The Global Soul(Reprint)
Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77611-6, ISBN: 0-679-77611-7

"Pico Iyer's book of essays about international locales contends that the modern world-scurrying citizen, pushed by business demands or political migrations, can easily lose both roots and sense of home. Airports have morphed into cities where scores of languages are spoken, thousands work, and millions travel through mazed villages of McDonalds, massage parlors, and self-help groups that twist along for miles; the Dallas-Fort Worth airp ..."






Abandon(Reprint)
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3085-9, ISBN: 1-4000-3085-4

"Pico Iyer's intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story--the love in question being at once sacred and profane. John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally absorbing quests. The first is for a mysterious Rumi manuscript that may have been smuggled out of Iran; t ..."






The Half Known Life
In Search of Paradise
by Pico Iyer
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2023 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-42025-6, ISBN: 0-593-42025-X

"In this culminating work, he brings together the outer world and the inner to offer us a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our very real lives."






Living Faith(1st Edition)
Windows into the Sacred Life of India
by Dinesh Khanna, Pico Iyer
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Harperone
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-057823-7, ISBN: 0-06-057823-8

"The stunning photographs in Living Faith are the result of over a decade and a half of travel and observation. From the cities, small towns and villages of India -- a country of almost unparalleled diversity where every major religion of the world has found a home -- Dinesh Khanna brings us images of faith as it endures in everyday life. Priests light up the night on the ghats of Varanasi in honor of Shiva; Sufis sing ecstatic love song ..."






The Man Within My Head
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38756-1, ISBN: 0-307-38756-9

"Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene's work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head, Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American, examining Greene's obsessions, his elusiveness, and his penchant for mystery. The deeper he plunges into this exploration, the more Iyer begins to wonder whether the man within his he ..."






Falling off the Map
Some Lonely Places of the World
by Pico Iyer, Reshma S. Ruia, Penguin Books India
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303210-6, ISBN: 0-14-303210-0

"Whenever I meet a foreigner here , " an Icelandic girl told me in a disco , “ I ask him , ' Why do you come to Iceland ? ... and to poets ( from Auden and MacNeice to Leithauser ) may be self - evident , it seems to evoke something poetic even in an everyman . ... For centuries , Iceland has been a kind of hermit among nations , a private , inward - looking Lonely Place of fishermen and visionaries and poets ."






Cuba And The Night(1st Edition)
by Pico Iyer
Hardcover, 233 Pages, Published 1995 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-44052-9, ISBN: 0-679-44052-6

"The Setting Is Cuba now, a place of yearnings, a strange place. Its economy wrecked, its revolution gone sour, its isolation almost complete, it lives largely on hopes and dreams -- of sex, of money, of escape to America, Europe, anywhere. In this atmosphere of intense eroticism and frustration a love story develops, one as odd, abandoned, and ambiguous as Cuba itself.Richard is an American news photographer at an emotional dead end, wh ..."






The Skeptical Romancer(1st Edition)
Selected Travel Writing (Everyman's Library)
by William Somerset Maugham, Pico Iyer
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2009 by Everyman's Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27212-6, ISBN: 0-307-27212-5

"W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that are collected here for the first time.Maugham worked as a secret agent in Russia, published novels in London, staged plays in New York, and traveled throughout Europe, Asia, India, and the ..."






Autumn Light
Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
by Pico Iyer
Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-1146-8, ISBN: 1-5266-1146-5






A Beginner's Guide to Japan(1st Edition)
Observations and Provocations (Paperback)
by Pico Iyer
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Uk
ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-1151-2, ISBN: 1-5266-1151-1






By the Seat of My Pants(3rd Edition)
(Lonely Planet Travel Literature)
by Wickham Boyle, Tim Cahill, Joshua Clark, Sean Condon, Don George, Pico Iyer, Jan Morris, Danny Wallace, Simon Winchester, Lonely Planet Publications
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Lonely Planet
ISBN-13: 978-1-78657-191-5, ISBN: 1-78657-191-9

"Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherHumorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable - and hilarious - travel stories.These 31 globegirdling ta ..."



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