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Video Night in Kathmandu

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0747551200

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Mohawk haircuts in Bali. In Guangzhou in the New China a buffeteria serving dishes called Yes, Sir, Cheese My Baby , A Legitimate Beef , and Ike and Tuna Turner . In Japan, a madder-than-ever baseball madness (favourite team: Yomiuri Giants), while the Japanese enact their own unfathomable rites against postcard-perfect backdrops of suburban America. But in Lhasa, the horrendous age-old ceremonial of Celebration Burial endures& When Pico Iyer born in England of India parents, at home both in East and West and now settled in Japan set out to explore the East, he was wholly aware that the international pop culture has already arrived at some of the remotest reaches of the Asian continent. But he was unprepared for the bizarre mixture of old and new, calculation and innocence, illusion and disillusion that he found and brilliantly recaptures in Video Night in Kathmandu.

Video Night in Kathmandu

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307761903

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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.

Sun After Dark

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307428011

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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 Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer’s latest itinerary. But the true subject of Sun After Dark is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so Iyer takes us along to meditate with Leonard Cohen and talk geopolitics with the Dalai Lama. He navigates the Magritte-like landscape of jet lag, “a place that no human had ever been until forty or so years ago.” And on every page of this poetic and provocative book, he compels us to redraw our map of the world.

Falling Off the Map

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307367198

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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.

The Man Within My Head

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408831557

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We all carry other people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than the people we know.Pico Iyer investigates the mysterious closeness he has always felt with Graham Greene and follows him from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American. The further he delves, the more he begins to wonder whether the man within his head is not Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself. Drawing upon experiences across the globe - from Bolivia to Berkhamsted to Bhutan - one of our most resourceful cultural explorers gives us his most personal and revelatory book.

Autumn Light

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780451493941

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Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.

Love and Death in Kathmandu

Amy Willesee,Mark Whittaker
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Author : Amy Willesee,Mark Whittaker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466872325

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On June 1, 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military fatigues, armed himself with automatic weapons, walked in on a quiet family gathering, and, without a word, mowed his family down before turning a gun on himself. But Dipendra did not die immediately, and while lying in a coma was declared king. He was now a living god. Award-winning journalists Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker set out to understand what could have led to such a devastating tragedy, one that fascinated and appalled the world. Exploring Kathmandu and other parts of the kingdom, they conducted exhaustive interviews with everyone from Maoist guerillas to members and friends of the royal family, gaining insight into the people involved in and the events behind the massacre. At the heart of the story is the love affair between Dipendra and the beautiful aristocrat Devyani Rana, whom he was forbidden to marry. Culminating their portrait of Nepal is a chilling reconstruction of the events of that fatal day. As conspiracy theories circulate and rebels threaten to topple the monarchy, the future of this small Himalayan kingdom promises to be as tumultuous as its past. Revealing a country where the twenty-first century mingles uneasily with the fourteenth, Love and Death in Kathmandu is both an enlightening portrait of a place that is a world apart and a riveting investigation of an incredible crime.

The Global Soul

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307764638

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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 world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. As Iyer points out, "everywhere is so made up of everywhere else," and our very souls have been put into circulation. Yet even global beings need a home. Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and psychological, to find what remains constant in a world gone mobile. He begins in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life — shops, services, sociability — is available without a town, and in Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels. He moves on to Toronto, which has been given new life and a new literature by its immigrant population, and to Atlanta, where the Olympic Village inadvertently commemorates the corporate universalism that is the Olympics' secret face. And, finally, he returns to England, where the effects of empire-as-global-village are still being sorted out, and to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces, Iyer unexpectedly finds a home. "As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed," The New Yorker has written. In The Global Soul, he extends the meaning of far-flung to places within and all around us.

Cuba and the Night

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307764645

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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 cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.

The Art of Stillness

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781476784724

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Explores why modern-day technology is making people more likely to retreat into solitude and quiet, with growing numbers of people practicing yoga, meditation and tai chi and even taking an “Internet Sabbath” where online connections are shut down for a day. 50,000 first printing.

The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing

Debbie Lisle
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Author : Debbie Lisle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521867800

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This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.

Abandon

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307424594

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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 California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally absorbing quests. The first is for a mysterious Rumi manuscript that may have been smuggled out of Iran; the second for the elusive Camilla Jensen, who continually offers herself to him only to repeatedly slip from his grasp. Are these quests somehow related? And can Macmillan give himself over to them without losing his career and identity? Moving deftly from California academia to the mosques of Iran, filled with insights into the minds of Islam and the modern West, Abandon is a magic carpet-ride of a book.

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

Pico Iyer
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Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780451493965

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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 travels, conversations, readings, and reflections—to craft a playful and profound book of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. He recounts his adventures and observations as he travels from a meditation hall to a love hotel, from West Point to Kyoto Station, and from dinner with Meryl Streep to an ill-fated call to the Apple service center in a series of provocations guaranteed to pique the interest and curiosity of those who don’t know Japan—and to remind those who do of its myriad fascinations.

Cuba

Brian Andreas
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Author : Brian Andreas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781683831440

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This award-winning book by the acclaimed travel photographer showcases the vibrant beauty of Cuba in stunning images captured over twenty-one years. In more than fifty trips to Cuba over twenty-one years, Travel Photographer of the Year Award-winner Lorne Resnick has sought to capture the experience of being in Cuba: moments filled with passion, desire, and laughter. Featuring two hundred sixty-six extraordinary color and black-and-white photos, this exceptional volume provides a stunning portrait of the vitality of Cuban culture, the beauty of the island, and the enduring spirit of the Cuban people. With a foreword by celebrated author Pico Iyer and an introduction by noted art critic Gerry Badger, this volume combines poignant stories and gorgeous visuals. Cuba: This moment, Exactly So has won several awards including a gold medal in the photography category from the Independent Publishers Book Awards; a Silver medal from the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Art/Photography, 1st place for Books in the International Photography awards. It was also a Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award winner.

I'll Call You in Kathmandu

Bernadette McDonald
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Author : Bernadette McDonald
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898868005

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A biography of Elizabeth Hawley, an American woman on her own in Nepal for more than four decades, celebrated as the official chronicler of Himalayan expedition climbing.