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Improbable journeys / Robin Magowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magowan, Robin.
- Series:
- Marlboro travel Improbable journeys
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magowan, Robin--Travel.
- Magowan, Robin.
- Voyages and travels.
- Voyages and travels--Religious aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : The Marlboro Press/Northwestern, Northwestern University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- All writers risk their identities, some with each sentence. But abroad, writing about a life that can't help but seem elusive, the charlatan in oneself may feel all too exposed. Limited to the surface, to the most fortuitous of impressions, how can a foreign pair of eyes hope to pen anything that can vie with something an insider, born there, carrying that landscape in his bones, might write? For more than four decades, poet Robin Magowan has journeyed in search of ecstatic spiritual experiences. Hitchhiking and walking, by bus or boat or when necessary by horse, he has explored lands as exotic as Nepal and New Guinea, as classic as Italy or France, and as forgotten as Persia and pre-Castro Cuba. All the while he has submerged himself, whether in the mysteries of Haitian voodoo or the simples pleasures of Burgundian peasant life. Known for the beauty, wit, and expressive power of his prose, Magowan's writing vibrates with the intensity of an outsider who crawls into the skin of a country--and emerges transformed.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- IMPROBABLE JOURNEYS
- Voyage Noir: Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica
- Persian Mirages
- Dancing Outside: A Summer on Lesbos
- Zambia: Bars and Barflies
- Madagascar: Life in the Red Lane
- A Trek in Nepal
- Beginnings of a Life Abroad: Two Houses in the Burgundian Auxois
- Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva
- Trinidad: Rain Forest Birding
- Indelible Gestures: New GuineaÌs Birds and Men
- On Learning to Travel in a Rock Garden
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-2004-6
- OCLC:
- 646716356
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