Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas - Couverture souple

Geddes, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1402753446 ISBN 13 : 9781402753442

Editeur : Sterling, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From war-torn Afghanistan, through the snow-capped Himalayas and across the burning sands of the Taklamakan desert, to a rapidly modernising China and on to the Central American jungles: it seems an impossible journey, but one that Gary Geddes eagerly undertook in order to retrace the voyage of the legendary 5th-century Buddhist monk Huishen. Geddes was long fascinated with stories of Huishens life and travels: this Afghan holy man fled Kabul for China and may have crossed the Pacific to North America 1,000 years before Columbus. The length and breadth of this expedition, and its difficulty, would have been amazing enough on its own, but Geddess trip takes on an added dimension and poignancy due to its timing: he reaches Afghanistan one month before September 11, 2001 and arrives in China as the tragic events unfold. Along the way, Geddes encounters Afghan refugees, Pakistani dissidents, Tibetan monks, Buddhist scholars, a KFC outlet in Luoyang, mysterious cairns in Haida Gwaii, and ghostly remains in Mexico. As the Silk Road morphs into superhighways, ancient sculptures turn into military targets and Geddes glimpses, in the collision of past and present history, important clues for imagining a workable future.

Biographie de l'auteur :

GARY GEDDES is a poet, writer, editor and critic. He has written and edited more than 30 books, including the bestselling Sailing Home, and won over a dozen national and international awards, among them theAmericas Best Book Award and the Gabriela Mistral Prize. Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things will be published in the US in Spring 2007 by Sterling Books. Most recently, Geddes was Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University. He lives in Sooke, British Columbia. Visit him online at www.garygeddes.ca.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sterling
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402753446
• ISBN 13: 9781402753442
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400