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Author : Robert Rubin
Release : 2009-03-03
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 430/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the Beaten Path by : Robert Rubin
Download or read book On the Beaten Path written by Robert Rubin. This book was released on 2009-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent, wise, and witty account of how one man's six-month, end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail led him back home.
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Release : 2003
Genre : Travel
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 244/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book Off the Beaten Path written by . This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated, this handbook spotlights over 1,000 of America's most overlooked must-see destinations in a state-by-state, A-Z format. 300 color photos.
Author : Ptolemy Tompkins
Release : 2001-07-24
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 229/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Beaten Path by : Ptolemy Tompkins
Download or read book The Beaten Path written by Ptolemy Tompkins. This book was released on 2001-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an America obsessed with quickie enlightenment and wisdom-acquisition, Ptolemy Tompkins is a seeker who has been there and done that. From Black Elk to the Dalai Lama -- from Hun Tun and mescaline to motorcycle Zen and mind at large -- the acclaimed author of Paradise Fever has followed many roads in pursuit of a universal truth. And he has survived to tell the tale. The Beaten Path Ptolemy Tompkins came of age in the '70s -- before Americans began spending uplifting Tuesdays with Morrie or perusing Little Instruction Books. In the wake of a quintessentially New Age childhood as the son of the radical freethinker Peter Tompkins, author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Plants, Ptolemy began a personal quest for enlightenment decades before it became trendy to do so. He gained much valuable insight as he careened from Buddha to the Bhagavad-Gita, from Krishna to Carlos Castaneda. But how much actual "wisdom" he accrued is a matter the author himself admits is up for debate. The Beaten Path is a work of great intelligence that is profound, moving, and hilariously entertaining. In his funny and touching account of a spiritual journey that went wildly off course, the author bares his soul even as he knocks down the gaudy signposts that guide eager pilgrims through today's pop-wisdom landscape. Yet he never loses sight of what is valuable and true in the literature of the spirit. Part gripping personal memoir, part merciless-yet-affectionate critique, and part genuine prescription for the good life, The Beaten Path is a provocative gift from a man who left no page unturned, no odyssey uncompleted, in his determination to find direction and meaning in the cosmos. In exploring what it is that makes so many of his contemporaries actively seek the light of peace and transformation in its most convenient and palatable form, he offers readers a unique, idiosyncratic insight into our modern world. And he has great fun while doing so.
Author : Lucy R. Lippard
Release : 2000-09-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the Beaten Track by : Lucy R. Lippard
Download or read book On the Beaten Track written by Lucy R. Lippard. This book was released on 2000-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, an "insightful" (San Francisco Bay Guardian) look at tourism and nostalgia from the bestselling author and art critic. In Lucy R. Lippard's On the Beaten Track, essays on cultural criticism, anthropology, and community activism are interwoven to examine how tourism sites are conceived and represented, and how they transform their surroundings. Called "stimulating" and "valuable" by Newsday, On the Beaten Track is now available in paperback for the first time. With her characteristic breadth of insight and critical eye, Lippard explores the act of being a tourist in one's own home, the role of advertising and photography in defining place, antique shops as populist museums, and the commodification of indigenous cultures. She discusses the political economies of leisure spaces; the tourist's fascination with tragic destinations such as the sites of massacres, nuclear weapons tests, and Holocaust memorials; and our willingness to let national parks and heritage sites define nature and history. Finally, the author that critic Andrew Ross calls "the most sure-footed tour guide you could hope for" surveys how artists are responding to the environmental, cultural, and political issues surrounding contemporary tourism.
Author : Gerald Singer
Release : 2013
Genre : Saint John (United States Virgin Islands)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 928/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book St. John Off the Beaten Track written by Gerald Singer. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
