Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture - Couverture rigide

Alter, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151005850 ISBN 13 : 9780151005857

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

This is an account of a journey taken in India. The destination is the source of the Ganges, the holy and most famous of Indian rivers. It is a physical journey, involving train rides across the vast plains and passages on foot far into snow-covered valleys and mountains. It is also a spiritual journey, taking a man deep into the heart and soul of the ancient religious culture of India.

Stephen Alter, who was born in the Himalayan foothills, crosses many miles, and several millennia, to search for the source of Indian religion. Along the way, as he reaches one holy spot after another, meeting grounds for pilgrims, remote towns, and forgotten temples, he delves into the myths and traditions of an antique land. He explores the tales of heroic derring-do, evil and good, and recounts the great stories of death, warfare, passions, and sacred wisdom that animate the vibrant history and religious traditions of India. As every pilgrim learns, a spiritual search involves travel but ultimately returns to the inner self. Sacred Waters is a richly told narrative of a beautiful land and of a man's interior journey, and is for readers everywhere who seek to plumb their own spiritual sources.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is an account of a journey taken in India. The destination is the source of the Ganges, the holy and most famous of Indian rivers. It is a physical journey, involving train rides across the vast plains and passages on foot far into snow-covered valleys and mountains. It is also a spiritual journey, taking a man deep into the heart and soul of the ancient religious culture of India.

Stephen Alter, who was born in the Himalayan foothills, crosses many miles, and several millennia, to search for the source of Indian religion. Along the way, as he reaches one holy spot after another, meeting grounds for pilgrims, remote towns, and forgotten temples, he delves into the myths and traditions of an antique land. He explores the tales of heroic derring-do, evil and good, and recounts the great stories of death, warfare, passions, and sacred wisdom that animate the vibrant history and religious traditions of India. As every pilgrim learns, a spiritual search involves travel but ultimately returns to the inner self. Sacred Waters is a richly told narrative of a beautiful land and of a man's interior journey, and is for readers everywhere who seek to plumb their own spiritual sources.

Revue de presse

PRAISE FOR ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN
Exquisite detail . . . His memories are full of the fragrance of deodar trees,
of roads blocked by buffalo carts and jammed with buses, of rivers that flow between the forested ridges of the lower Himalayas."-San Francisco Examiner
A beautifully written book about growing up between two cultures . . .
Remarkably engaging and smooth reading."-Library Journal
A richly absorbing read-a skillfully crafted double-refraction, in which two distant worlds illuminate each other through the pinhole of a child's eye."
-Amitav Ghosh

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151005850
• ISBN 13: 9780151005857
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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