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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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From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness comes a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan.
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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…
Hermann Hesse
An inspirational classic from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a beautiful tale of self-discovery.
'A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form' -Sunday Times
'It's hard…
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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…
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From one of our most astute observers, a haunting and unexpected investigation of the many voices he carries inside himself
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Why did Dire Straits blast out over Hiroshima, Bruce Springsteen over Bali and Madonna over all? The author was eager to learn where East meets West, how pop culture and…
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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…
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…
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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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"Originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2019."
A journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world –
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
Chris Rainier,Pico Iyer
2020 IBPA Awards Winner!
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.
Celebrated…
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Paula Arai, Pico Iyer
How do we make and sustain meaning amidst the messy conditions of daily life? Personalized rituals can help us blossom like lotuses right in the mud of the present. On…
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.‘…
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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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…
Arthur Drooker,Pico Iyer
More than 100 large-format photographs depict extraordinary sites in South and Central American Mexico and the Caribbean
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…
When Pico Iyer visited Japan, he met the vivacious, attractive Sachiko. The result of that meeting is this ironic and heartfelt portrait of cross-cultural infatuation and a view of both…
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…
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…
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…
Harry Hervey
Harry Hervey’s lush account takes us on a quest for a lost Khmer temple in 1925 French Indochina. Three stories march side-by-side to the measure of his cadenced prose: the…
