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Pico Iyer
'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert 'A work of spiritual evolution [and] inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors' Washington Post One…
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It’s so easy, I thought, to place Paradise in the past or the future - anywhere but here.
After half a century of travel, from Ethiopia to Tibet, from Belfast…
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Our first time publishing Pico Iyer, we are repositioning him as a New York Times bestselling, major spiritual thinker - with a book that speaks to the growing readership for…
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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…
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness comes a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan.
A study of the work of celebrated Hong Kong photographer and designer Basil Pao. Carnival of Dreams offers a glimpse into the wide-ranging, fifty-year career of the internationally renowned Hong…
We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it’s their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty.
Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law’s…
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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…
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After meeting the well-educated wife of a Japanese salaryman , Iyer fashions a beautifully written book about someone looking for ancient dreams in a strange modern place (LA Times Book…
David Zurick
Photo book that vividly captures the beguiling love affair between East and West in its portrayal of modern-day India, and the free-spirited people who travel or reside there - Westerners…
In The Art of Stillness, Iyer investigates the lives of people that made a life seeking stillness: from Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman with a PhD in molecular biology who left…
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Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is 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…
The acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu continues his one-man reinvention of the essay in an eloquent new book which soars from the remotest places on the planet to…
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…
From one of our most astute observers, a haunting and unexpected investigation of the many voices he carries inside himself
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…
In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. Here, the author uses his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a…
A collection of travel writing from the author of Video Night in Kathmandu .
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration-for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike-of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas…
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 and Andrew Motion
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From the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the personal impact of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement. The author…
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now focuses on the work and ideas of the 14th Dalai Lama, as Iyer examines the spiritual leader’s…
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…
A journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world –
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…
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"Originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2019."
Michael Ondaatje
During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last…
Mark Chester
This collection of engaging black-and-white photographs captures America from the driver's seat. Offering fresh perspectives on the United States' iconic highways, byways, back roads, and small-town main streets, Mark Chester…
Bernard Diederich
This title examines Graham Greene travels through Haiti and Central America - a part of his life story that has never been told. It includes previously unseen letters and photographs…
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Jason Wilson
A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
Paula Huston
Based on notes kept for over sixty years by an early American novice at New Camaldoli Hermitage, The Hermits of Big Sur tells the story of what unfolds within this…
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Chris Rainier,Pico Iyer
Mask presents a striking collection of rare masks steeped in ancient tradition, captured through the lens of one of the world's most celebrated documentary photographers.
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In Illumination, photographer Lynn Davis reveals the spiritual nature of her work through her exploration of the world’s greatest universal sites, both man-made and natural. Setting herself in the grand…
Don George
As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in…
Thomas Swick
Falling into Place: A Memoir of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer is a coming-of-age story tied to a historic moment, the defining one of the second…
Paul Quenon
Monastic life and its counter-cultural wisdom come alive in the stories and lessons of Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., during his more than five decades as a Trappist at the Abbey…
Paul Relis
In Out of the Wasteland, founding Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council Paul Relis takes us on a journey of the environmental frontier, from the heady days of the…
Ronald Wright,Pico Iyer
Time Among the Maya shows Ronald Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures.‘…
Arto Paasilinna
While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he quits his job, leaves his wife, sells his possessions, and spends a…
Graham Greene
The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence-this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the…
Paula Arai, Pico Iyer
Accessible and adaptable Japanese Buddhist rituals to infuse your life with purpose, healing, and gratitude when you need it most.
Accessible and adaptable Japanese Buddhist rituals to infuse your life…
W. Somerset Maugham
Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the 20th century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Iyer maps out…
R. K. Narayan
Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time
These two novels show R. K. Narayan at his best, offering enchanting…
Robert Macfarlane,William Boyd,Candice Carty-Williams,Chigozie Obioma,Philip Pullman
An anthology of essays about the joys of reading and of giving books, from some of the world’s most beloved writers. Inspired by and including Robert Macfarlane’s own essay, ‘The…
Cristiano Bianchi,Kristina Drapic
A photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea’s model utopia.
