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TROPICAL CLASSICAL : ESSAYS FROM SEVERAL DIRECTIONS by IYER, PICO (Paperback - 1998) ISBN: 9780679776109 Subject: TRAVEL Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS The acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu and The Lady and the Monk continues his one-man reinvention of the essay in this eloquent new book, which soars from the remotest places on the planet to the frontiers of contemporary literature, culture, and manners. In Tropical Classical, Pico Iyer visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshipers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Midle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay’s dabbawallahs, who each day ferry 100,000 different lunches to 100,000 different workers. Iyer chats with the Dalai Lama and assesses books by Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy. And he brings his perceptive eye and unflappable wit to bear on the postmodern vogues for literary puffery, sexual gamesmanship, and frequent-flier miles. Glittering with aphorisms, overflowing with insight, and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is Pico Iyer at his globe-sprinting best. and students of Chinese cer |
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VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU by IYER, PICO (Paperback - 1989) ISBN: 9780679722168 Subject: TRAVEL Publisher: VINTAGE |
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VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU by IYER, PICO (Paperback - 2001) ISBN: 9780747551201 Subject: TRAVEL Publisher: BLOOMSBURY |
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開闊之路: 達賴喇嘛的人生智慧 5 OPEN ROAD: THE GLOBAL JOURNEY OF THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA by 皮科.艾爾 IYER, PICO (Paperback - 2009) ISBN: 9789571349862 Subject: 中文 Publisher: 時報出版 |
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