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72 produkter
Gifts of Reading
Av Robert Macfarlane, William Boyd m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
130 kr
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With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, …
Same Sun Same Moon
Av Pico Iyer
Inbunden, 2026
358 kr
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This elegant collaboration pairs Michael Kenna’s luminous black-and-white landscapes with Pico Iyer’s contemplative prose, tracing the parallels of two lives lived in motion. Though they didn’t meet until they were both in their sixties, photographer Michael Kenna and writer Pico Iyer had been …
The Art of Stillness
Adventures in Going Nowhere
Av Pico Iyer
Inbunden, 2014
227 kr
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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 …
Autumn Light
Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
Av Pico Iyer
Häftad, 2020
165 kr
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We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty.Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer soon picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office …
A Beginner's Guide to Japan
Observations and Provocations
Av Pico Iyer
Häftad, 2020
250 kr
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“Arguably the greatest living travel writer” ( Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as he is the first to admit, the country remains an enigma even to its long-term residents. In A Beginner’s Guide to Japan , Iyer draws on his years of experience—his …
Open Road
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2008
240 kr
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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 …
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Av Pico Iyer
Häftad, 2009
267 kr
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Abandon
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2007
142 kr
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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, …
Sun After Dark
Flights Into the Foreign
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2007
110 kr
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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 …
The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing
Av W. Somerset Maugham, Pico Iyer
Häftad, 2012
277 kr
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Falling Off the Map
Some Lonely Places of The World
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2011
163 kr
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Lady and the Monk
Four Seasons in Kyoto
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2011
121 kr
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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 …
Video Night in Kathmandu
And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2010
163 kr
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Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.
Global Soul
Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness. In the transnational village that our …
Cuba and the Night
A Novel
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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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 …
Tropical Classical
Essays from Several Directions
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2011
211 kr
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In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay''s dabbawallahs , who each …
Autumn Light
Season of Fire and Farewells
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2019
163 kr
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From one of our most astute observers of human nature, 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 …
Beginner's Guide to Japan
Observations and Provocations
Av Pico Iyer
E-bok, 2019
221 kr
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From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness- -one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers--a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan. After 32 years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both …
Half Known Life
In Search of Paradise
Av Pico Iyer
2023
321 kr
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES , THE NEW YORKER , NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE “Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best.” — Washington Post “Dazzling.” — Time Magazine , Best Books of 2023 From “one …
Half Known Life
In Search of Paradise
Av Pico Iyer
2023
184 kr
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From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world. "Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soulA masterpiece." - #1 New York …
Video Night in Kathmandu
And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Av Pico Iyer
Häftad, 1989
209 kr
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Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.
Cuba and the Night
Av Pico Iyer
Häftad, 1996
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
329 kr
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