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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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" |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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, 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." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 Art of Stillness Adventures in Going Nowhere (Ted) by Pico Iyer Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Simon & Schuster Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4711-3886-7, ISBN: 1-4711-3886-0 "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. Through his extensive interviews with creative geniuses of our day, as well as historical records and his own life experience, acclai ..." |
 | | Abandon(1st Edition) A Romance by Pico Iyer Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2003 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41505-0, ISBN: 0-375-41505-X "John Macmillan is an Englishman in California studying Sufism, and in particular Rumi, the thirteenth-century Islamic mystic and at present the best-selling poet in America. Traveling to Damascus, he hears rumors of a secret, heretical manuscript that might have escaped from Iran during the chaos of its Revolution, and, taking a message back to California, ends up encountering Camilla Jensen, an open if somewhat wayward Californian, who ..." |
 | | The Global Soul(1st Edition) Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home by Pico Iyer Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-45433-5, ISBN: 0-679-45433-0 "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 ..." |
 | | Cuba and the Night(Reprint) A Novel by Pico Iyer Paperback, 233 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76075-7, ISBN: 0-679-76075-X "Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.From the Trade Paperback edition." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Falling Off the Map(Updated) Some Lonely Places of the World by Pico Iyer Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1994 by Black Swan Import ISBN-13: 978-0-552-99585-6, ISBN: 0-552-99585-1 "Using the same sympathy and eye for the absurd that characterized his "Video Night in Kathmandu", the traveller Pico Iyer describes countries ranging from Paraguay to Iceland, North Korea to Argentian, Cuba to Bhutan, and Vietnam to Australia - places which many people make a point of avoiding and which he calls "lonely places". In a tightly-sealed North Korea, he sees no tourists, yet notes that the Koreans are building the largest tou ..." |
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