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Author:Pico Iyer
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
"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...- $17.00
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Abandon
From the national bestselling author of The Half-Known Life comes an intoxicating novel that's 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...- $19.00
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Aflame: Learning from Silence
From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high...- $30.00
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
In this "exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life" (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death and picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites, reminding us...- $16.00
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Cuba and the Night
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...- $21.00
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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
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.Author: Pico IyerISBN-10: 0679746129ISBN-13:...- $15.00
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Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
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;...- $19.00
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The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
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...- $17.99
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
From the acclaimed author of Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement. Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life--shops, services, sociability--is available without a town, Pico...- $16.00
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The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
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...- $26.00
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
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...- $17.00
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The Man Within My Head
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,...- $16.00
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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - For Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, "an exceptionally intimate portrait" (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love) of the Dalai Lama--one of the most singular figures of our time.For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has...- $19.00
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Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions
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...- $22.00
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Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far-East
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...- $15.95
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