Verso la montagna sacra
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- ISBN: 8862203772
- Casa Editrice: Ponte alle Grazie
- Pagine: 219
- Data di uscita: 08-09-2011
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To a Mountain in Tibet tells two stories. One is the great travel writer’s observations along his trek to a significant physical and religious site. The other is his inner journey of coming to terms with the death of his mother, whose passing prompted this adventure. The sights, smells and sounds of Leggi tutto
Brilliant. It is a short book about three intertwined mysteries: the mysteries of culture, of death, and of human personality. It offers no easy answers--no answers at all, really. It is a pilgrimage finished, but unfulfilled. Thubron is a famed travel writer, and he left to visit Mt. Kailas shortly a Leggi tutto
A Sacred Mountain Located in remote southwestern Tibet on the border with Nepal, the 22,000 foot high Mount Kailas is sacred to four religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and the ancient Tibetan Bon. The mountain is regarded as the center of the world, and as the concrete realization of the mythica Leggi tutto
3.5 stars. Oh, what a private, intimate book it was! I'm slightly embarrassed to confess it was the first book by Thubron that I’ve read, although I own a few. My relationship with the author is somewhat turned upside down. Firstly, I took part in a meeting with him a few years ago in Warsaw. He was Leggi tutto
I'm still trying to figure out what I got out of this book. The Tibetan facts/history were not effectively organized, I didn't get to know any interesting characters, and although this book is billed as a sort of elegy for the author's deceased family, other than a few pages on the father's travels
Hành trình tới núi thiêng Kailash, Tây Tạng của một nhà văn người Anh, người có lẽ là một trong những nhà văn viết du ký nổi tiếng nhất hiện nay (và được tạp chí Times xem là 1 trong 50 nhà văn Anh quốc lớn nhất từ sau năm 1945). Xen kẽ cáu chuyện về hành trình của ông và gặp gỡ những người dân Nepa Leggi tutto
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