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Improbable journeys / Robin Magowan.
LIBRA G465 .M34 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magowan, Robin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magowan, Robin--Travel.
- Magowan, Robin.
- Travel.
- Voyages and travels.
- Voyages and travels--Religious aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 220 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : The Marlboro Press/Northwestern, Northwestern University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Forty years of travel writing from a noted poet
- For more than four decades, poet Robin Magowan has journeyed in search of spiritual experiences. Hitchhiking and walking, by bus or, when necessary, by horse, he has explored lands as exotic as Nepal and New Guinea, as classic as Italy and France, and as forgotten as Persia and pre-Castro Cuba, submerging himself in the mysteries of Haitian voodoo and the simple pleasures of Burgundian peasant life. Known for its beauty, wit, and expressive power, Magowan's prose vibrates with the intensity of an outsider who crawls into the skin of a country -- and emerges transformed.
- Contents:
- Voyage Noir: Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica 3
- Persian Mirages 23
- Dancing Outside: A Summer on Lesbos 51
- Zambia: Bars and Barflies 85
- Madagascar: Life in the Red Lane 91
- A Trek in Nepal 101
- Beginnings of a Life Abroad: Two Houses in the Burgundian Auxois 120
- Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva 139
- Trinidad: Rain Forest Birding 191
- Indelible Gestures: New Guinea's Birds and Men 199
- On Learning to Travel in a Rock Garden 213.
- ISBN:
- 0810160927
- OCLC:
- 50144860
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