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Cargando... Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublimepor Stephen Alter
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I quite like this book, on several levels. While the writing style can be seen to be somewhat bland, it does indeed suit the book. Stephen starts by writing about a horrific incident at his home, and the somewhat sparse style suits this perfectly. If he had become too emotional, the book would have started on a weepy note and this would have prevented me from going ahead. He struck a good balance. This section is critical, as it set the stage for the rest of the book - the journeys. The journeys themselves are more temporal than spiritual. They, to me, tend to reflect who we are, and how we respond to places and things. We are not all mystical by nature. In his writings, I think he shows great respect for the traditions of the places he visits, and the mountains. In all, the only wish I have is for a longer epilogue. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature, a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt like a foreigner in the land of his birth. This book is his account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence--to Bandar Punch (the monkey's tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He set himself this goal to prove that he had healed mentally as well as physically and to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, a way to rediscover mountains in his inner landscape. Weaving together observations of the natural world, Himalayan history, folklore and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving meditation on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I enjoyed the travelogue part of it a lot more than I did the philosophical one.
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