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White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

From â€œone of our most original writersâ€ (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting bookâ€”firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitiveâ€”about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves.
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Geoff Dyerâ€™s restless searchâ€”for what? is unclear, even to himâ€”continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his â€œgreatest experience from the outside worldâ€; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
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Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries â€œto work out what a certain placeâ€”a certain way of marking the landscapeâ€”means; what itâ€™s trying to tell us; what we go to it for.â€

With 4 pages of full-color illustrations.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 24925470
ReleaseDate 2016-05-03
EANs 9781101870853

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