White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

Condition - Very Good
The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and functions properly. Item may arrive with damaged packaging or be repackaged. It may be marked, have identifying markings on it, or have minor cosmetic damage. It may also be missing some parts/accessories or bundled items.

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.
Â
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.
Â
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.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Geoff Dyer
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101870860
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2016-05-03
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2016-05-03
Studio	Pantheon

White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

You might also like...