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Sun After Dark Flights into the Foreign Pico Iyer First Ed HCDJ + Mylar Cover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 2000s
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Mylar Book Jacket Cover
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780375415067
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375415068
ISBN-13
9780375415067
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5928636
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sun after Dark : Flights Into the Foreign
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Travel
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-054612
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed." The New Yorker "If Iyer is only a travel writer, then so was Henry James." Los Angeles Times "Iyer brings . . . startling freshness to his accounts of travel. . . . Ranks as one of Iyer's best books." The Seattle Times "Pico Iyer's remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies." Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Iyer] reflects back at us images from a post-colonial world that is gorgeously complex and stubbornly elusive, yet firmly within his grasp." New York Times "Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation." Time "Iyer travels to places that many of us have never been to, and may never go to. . . . Iyer writes beautifully, and I was happy to follow wherever his wanderings (physical and spiritual) led." San Francisco Chronicle "Pico Iyer is a writer like no other, sui generis, and in this book his particular gifts of thoughtfulness, perception and descriptive power, allied by now with profound experience, reach new levels of grace." Jan Morris "Jan Morris has retired; Graham Greene is dead. Pico Iyer is on his way to replacing them... Leave your guidebook behind. Go follow Iyer." National Geographic Adventure "Iyer is an exceptional travel writer, who not only limns Peruvian street maps with clarity and wit, but also offers a compelling rationale for immersing yourself in a foreign environment." Gotham "Iyer is a master of the ironic detail, and in these pieces he is able to notice the very objects whose juxtaposition will nail shut the lid of his beautifully constructed metaphorical box. . . . Goes where most of us will not go and returns with the dire details." Kirkus Reviews "Hallucinatory and observant, this little book confirms Iyer as one of the most gifted wanderers writing today." Seattle Weekly "Mr. Iyer writes with remarkable grace. . . . He is not only wonderful company but will take you on journeysof place, heart and spirityou perhaps had not dared imagine." Santa Barbara News-Press "The world's best travel writer." The Oregonian, "As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed." The New Yorker "If Iyer is only a travel writer, then so was Henry James."Los Angeles Times "Iyer brings . . . startling freshness to his accounts of travel. . . . Ranks as one of Iyer's best books."The Seattle Times "Pico Iyer's remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies." Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Iyer] reflects back at us images from a post-colonial world that is gorgeously complex and stubbornly elusive, yet firmly within his grasp." New York Times "Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation." Time "Iyer travels to places that many of us have never been to, and may never go to. . . . Iyer writes beautifully, and I was happy to follow wherever his wanderings (physical and spiritual) led." San Francisco Chronicle "Pico Iyer is a writer like no other, sui generis, and in this book his particular gifts of thoughtfulness, perception and descriptive power, allied by now with profound experience, reach new levels of grace." Jan Morris "Jan Morris has retired; Graham Greene is dead. Pico Iyer is on his way to replacing them... Leave your guidebook behind. Go follow Iyer." National Geographic Adventure "Iyer is an exceptional travel writer, who not only limns Peruvian street maps with clarity and wit, but also offers a compelling rationale for immersing yourself in a foreign environment." Gotham "Iyer is a master of the ironic detail, and in these pieces he is able to notice the very objects whose juxtaposition will nail shut the lid of his beautifully constructed metaphorical box. . . . Goes where most of us will not go and returns with the dire details." Kirkus Reviews "Hallucinatory and observant, this little book confirms Iyer as one of the most gifted wanderers writing today." Seattle Weekly "Mr. Iyer writes with remarkable grace. . . . He is not only wonderful company but will take you on journeysof place, heart and spirityou perhaps had not dared imagine." Santa Barbara News-Press "The world's best travel writer." The Oregonian From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
910.4
Synopsis
Pico Iyer - one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers - invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist attraction is a collection of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and travels through southern Arabia in the weeks before September 11, 2001. He practices meditation with Leonard Cohen and discusses geopolitics with the Dalai Lama, travels to Easter Island and through the imaginative terrains of W. G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro, weaving physical and psychological challenges together into a seamless narrative. Throughout his travels, the familiar thrill of adventure is haunted by the unsettling questions that arise for Iyer everywhere he goes: How do we reconcile suffering with the sunlight often found around it? How does the foreign instruct the traveler, precisely by discomfiting him? And how does travel take us more deeply into reality, both within us and without? Intensely affecting, Iyer's explorations are a road map of thinking in new ways about our changing world., Pico Iyer one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist attraction is a collection of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and travels through southern Arabia in the weeks before September 11, 2001. He practices meditation with Leonard Cohen and discusses geopolitics with the Dalai Lama, travels to Easter Island and through the imaginative terrains of W. G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro, weaving physical and psychological challenges together into a seamless narrative. Throughout his travels, the familiar thrill of adventure is haunted by the unsettling questions that arise for Iyer everywhere he goes: How do we reconcile suffering with the sunlight often found around it? How does the foreign instruct the traveler, precisely by discomfiting him? And how does travel take us more deeply into reality, both within us and without? Intensely affecting, Iyer's explorations are a road map of thinking in new ways about our changing world.
LC Classification Number
G465.I95 2004
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- p***k (304)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseFast shipping, great price, wonderful packaging, arrived as pictured and described, excellent seller! My parents went to the Hotel Claremont on their wedding night in 1947! I have the picture, and now I have the folder that goes with it! Many thanks!
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- p***k (304)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseFast shipping, great price, wonderful packaging, arrived as pictured and described, excellent seller! My parents went to the Hotel Claremont on their wedding night in 1947! I have the picture, and now I have the folder that goes with it! Many thanks!
- e***n (10)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseShipped much faster than I thought, and came in great packaging. Was described well, although one of the pages was torn out, but I reckon that could be my mistake. Definitely was priced perfectly ❤️
- n***a (144)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseShipping and packaging were outstanding: prompt delivery with padded envelope and interior cardboard on each side of the stamp collection. Stamp collection is as described and is in mint condition. The original plastic wrap is unopened but has shrunk somewhat which is common. In my opinion this is a good value. Also, thanks for the receipt which for some reason some sellers neglect.Celebrate the Century 1940s WWII Era USPS Fifteen 33 Cent US Stamps Sheet Sealed (#365474292782)