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Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign
A Blend of 5-Star and 1-Star Selections: To say that my reactions to this book were "mixed" would be an understatement. The volume left me, at some points, half-decided to abort reading it altogether, but at others, deeply appreciative that I'd [... more]
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Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the ...
Amazon.com Review: Only in India would the American film Rambo be remade with the title role played by a woman--in a sari, no less! Only in Hong Kong would a man at a cocktail party pick up a woman with the line "What do you think of the dollar?& [... more]
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Living Faith: Windows into the Sacred Life of India
Just beautiful...: This book is drop-dead gorgeous. It is well-composed and laid out so that you sit and look through it without getting tired of it or over-saturated with images. And it is touching too. I think it has a valid point to make about the [... more]
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
Beautiful but aggravating: There is no doubt that Pico Iyer is a masterful writer: his descriptions of Kyoto and Japan are breathtakingly gorgeous. He does have a tendency to ramble at times, but the passages that are good are worth slogging through the [... more]
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Video Night in Kathmandu
Amazon.com Review: Only in India would the American film Rambo be remade with the title role played by a woman--in a sari, no less! Only in Hong Kong would a man at a cocktail party pick up a woman with the line "What do you think of the dollar?& [... more]
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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World
home is where everything is the same and yet different: Pico Iyer's prose caught my eye in his Time Magazine columns where he did a good job showing us how recognizable the exotic has become. This collection, his first in book form, again reiterates that [... more]
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The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (The Best American ...
The Best? Hmm...: Whether or not you like this collection of essays will depend on your definition of travel writing. D.Cooper's "Canadian Gothic", J.McPhee's "A Fleet of One" and B.Donahue's "Under the Sheltering Sky" are [... more]
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search ...
Amazon.com Review: Pico Iyer's book of essays about international locales contends that the modern world-scurrying citizen, pushed by business demands or political migrations, can easily lose both roots and sense of home. Airports have morphed into [... more]
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Cuba and the Night: A Novel
A gray, dreary read of a Terrifically Vibrant Country: This book reads like one of those foriegn 'art' films where you follow people agonizing through everyday life but nothing much ever happens - you wait for hours for a flat, non-ending. Oh well, you [... more]
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search ...
Amazon.com Review: Pico Iyer's book of essays about international locales contends that the modern world-scurrying citizen, pushed by business demands or political migrations, can easily lose both roots and sense of home. Airports have morphed into [... more]
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Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions
Amazon.com Review: As a respected and beloved journalist and travel writer, Pico Iyer has earned a reputation and a loyal following, and Tropical Classical is a good indication why. This "best of " collection of essays, book reviews, and [... more]
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Abandon
Rumi in California: Abandon is a novel that explores the results of mixing ancient mysticism with the rootless, multicultural modern world. This topic is also the subject of much of Pico Iyer's nonfiction, such as Video Night in Kathmandu and The Global [... more]
$14.00
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