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A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few ot ...Show more
Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico IYER
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Meditation on impermanence, mortality & grief
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with ...Show more
Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico Iyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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 sudden death, Pico Iyer soon picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites- going to the post office in t ...Show more
Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Have tea with the Dalai Lama, meditate with Leonard Cohen and travel from Cambodia to Ethiopia all within the pages of this book.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 ...Show more
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help | Series: TED | Reading Level: very good
Part of the TED series: The Art of Stillness In this age of constant movement and connectedness, when so many of us are all over the place, perhaps staying in one place - and locating everything we need for peace and happiness there - is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
The Global Soul: Jetlag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home by Pico Iyer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. "Everywhere is made up of everywhere else," motion is our most constant state of being, our very souls have been put into circulation.
The Lady and The Monk : Four Seasons in Kyoto by Iyer Pico
$32.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Monks who cherish Mickey Mouse and collect motorbikes, hardened businessmen who read love poetry and geishas who visit temples...Such was the paradoxical world that Pico Iyer was confronted with when he spent a year in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto. On a mission to learn the subtleties of Zen an ...Show more
The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me by Pico Iyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
We all carry other people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than the people we know. Pico Iyer investigates the mysterious closeness he has always felt with Graham Greene and follows him from his first novel, The Ma ...Show more
The Man within My Head by Pico Iyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
We all carry other people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the writer Graham Greene: he ...Show more
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father's) for the last three decades - an ongoing exploration of his message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama's position- though he has brought t ...Show more