100 Journeys for the Spirit

Sacred * Inspiring * Mysterious * Enlightening

Pico Iyer

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Simon & Schuster
01 November 2018

Mind, Body, Spirit; Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Travel around the world to some of the most spiritual places on the planet with a collection of star authors including Michael Ondaatje, Alexander McCall Smith Jan Morris, and Andrew Motion.

At dawn I wake up to bells . . . red-tailed hawks above the golden pampas grass and the great, still blue plate of the Pacific far below . . . Many places offer you beauty, grandeur, spaciousness; none but Big Sur, in my experience, tells you so powerfully that all those blessings lie within.

-Pico Iyer on Big Sur, California

Some 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 monument, a wayside shrine, or a landscape feature that is saturated in the ambience of ancient sacred traditions. Such places are worth taking the trouble to visit. They add meaning to our lives, awakening a sense of beauty, tranquility or awe.

From the prehistoric megaliths of Carnac in Brittany to the Buddhist temple complex of Borobodur in Java, from the giant medicine wheel at Bighorn, Wyoming in the USA to the Confucian Temple of Heaven in Beijing, this book will guide you on a journey to 100 of the world's most spiritually uplifting sites. Accompanying the superb photographs are evocative descriptions of each place, many from esteemed writers who share their personal responses in their own inimitable style. Read Joseph Williams III on Pipestone in Minnesota, Jan Morris on Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, Michael Ondaatje on the Arankale Forest Monastery in Sri Lanka, and more. And if you wish to seek out these places for yourself, there is a helpful gazetteer at the back of the book giving key facts for visitors.

By immersing ourselves in those special places where landscape, art, and spirit meet in a radiant intersection, we enlarge our perspective on life. This book gives us the inspiration and knowledge to do so.

By: Pico Iyer
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 249mm, Width: 218mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.057kg
ISBN: 9781780280318
ISBN 10: 1780280319
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pico Iyer is a respected travel writer, close confidant of the Dalai Lama, and author of several books. Jan Morris is one of the world's most celebrated and respected travel writers. She has written more than 30 books. Mark Tully is a prolific journalist for the BBC and CNN based in India. He is the author of several bestselling books. Alexander McCall Smith is a bestselling author of more than 60 books incuding the No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency series. Andrew Motion is a celebrated poet, novelist and biographer. He was Poet Laureate of the UK from 1999 to 2009. Michael Ondaatje is the bestselling author of The English Patient, In the Skin of the Lion and Anil's Ghost. Joseph Marshall III is a Native American historian, writer, teacher and actor.