Questions of Heaven The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist |
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| Author:
| Ehrlich, Gretel |
| Series title: | Concord Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8070-7311-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1998 |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press
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| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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A Haunting pilgrimage to one of China's holy mountains "Ehrlich . . . writes with tremendous grace and passion." --Miles Harvey,
Outside "In spare, lyrical prose, Ehrlich inventively recounts her 1995 spiritual trip to China and Tibet. . . . Like one of the landscape paintings of which she writes, Ehrlich's book is at once delicate, deeply considered and moving." --
Publishers Weekly, starred review "Ehrlich's...
More Description A Haunting pilgrimage to one of China's holy mountains
"Ehrlich . . . writes with tremendous grace and passion."
--Miles Harvey, Outside
"In spare, lyrical prose, Ehrlich inventively recounts her 1995 spiritual trip to China and Tibet. . . . Like one of the landscape paintings of which she writes, Ehrlich's book is at once delicate, deeply considered and moving."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Ehrlich's highly personal travelogue centers on her attempt to find what remains of [the] once-flourishing spiritual culture in the sacred mountains of western China. . . . [Ehrlich] intersperses her personal narrative with bits of the intellectual, political, historical and spiritual."
--Alexandra Hall, The New York Times Book Review
"If Questions of Heaven has a message, it may reside in the author's belief in a bond across geography and generations, one transcending space and time."
--David L. Ulin, The Village Voice
"This is travel writing at its best." --Glenn Masuchika, Library Journal