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Pico Iyer has written 37 work(s)
Hardcover:
9780971523487 | Ad Editions, August 1, 2002, cover price $65.00
In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. Here, the author uses his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, and describes a journey - both physical and psychological - toward a definition of home in this world gone mobile.
Hardcover:
9780747549659 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us.
9780679454335, titled "The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A unique exploration of 'globalism' takes the reader on an international trek to discover the settings where cultures collide, from Hong Kong, where hotels are islands of selfsufficiency, to the Olympic Village in Atlanta, an unwitting monument of 'universalism.
Paperback:
9780747553502, titled "The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home" | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, June 4, 2001), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us.
9780679776116, titled "The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A unique exploration of 'globalism' takes the reader on an international trek to discover the settings where cultures collide, from Hong Kong, where hotels are islands of self-sufficiency, to the Olympic Village in Atlanta, an unwitting monument of 'universalism.
Why did Dire Straits blast out over Hiroshima, Bruce Springsteen over Bali and Madonna over all? The author was eager to learn where East meets West, how pop culture and imperialism penetrated through the world's most ancient civilisations. Then, the truths he began to uncover were more startling, subtle, and more complex than he ever anticipated.
Paperback:
9780747551201 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, June 4, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Why did Dire Straits blast out over Hiroshima, Bruce Springsteen over Bali and Madonna over all?
9780679722168 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1989), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.
A collection of award-winning travelogues and essays features Simon Winchester's account of a midnight drive through Romania, Maxine Rose Schur's recollections of her poverty-stricken days as a student in Paris, Tim Cahill's journey to the remote village of Roraima, Venezuela, and other works by Peter Mayle, Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Po Bronson, and others. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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Paperback:
9780679783633 | 1 edition (Villard Books, November 7, 2000), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A collection of travelogues and essays features Simon Winchester's account of a midnight drive through Romania, Tim Cahill's journey to the remote village of Roraima, Venezuela, and other works by Peter Mayle, Isabel Allende, and Po Bronson.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786117871 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: An account of the author's stay in a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, in order to learn about Zen Buddhism, introduces readers to Sachiko--a well-educated, English-speaking, Japanese housewife locked in a traditional marriage but drawn to the author and to Western culture.
A photographic portrait of the practice of Buddhism ranges from the Himalayas to Europe and America as it shares images of Buddhist traditions and rituals, accompanied by a short introduction to Buddhism and its mysteries. 17,500 first printing.
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Hardcover:
9780679457848 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, November 1, 1998), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A photographic portrait of the practice of Buddhism ranges from the Himalayas to Europe and America as it shares images of Buddhist traditions and rituals, accompanied by a short introduction to Buddhism
Hardcover:
9780679454328 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1997), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays on topics ranging from a hermitage in California and Cuba to profiles of Salman Rushdie, Raymond Chandler, and Henry Miller
Paperback:
9780679776109 | Vintage Books, July 1, 1998, cover price $14.95
Paperback:
9781885211231 | Travelers'' Tales Inc, January 1, 1998, cover price $12.95
Product Description: Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba...read more
Hardcover:
9780679440529 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In present-day Havana, Richard, a cynical American news photographer at an emotional dead end, finds romance, trouble, and redemption in the person of Lourdes, a vivacious, passionate Cuban dreaming of a better future
Paperback:
9780679760757 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba.
Hardcover:
9780679422648 | 1 amer ed edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Describes the building of the world's biggest tourist hotel in tourist-free North Korea, the effects of inflation in Argentina, shortages in Cuba, and crime in Paraguay
Paperback:
9780679746126 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Describes the building of the world's biggest tourist hotel in tourist-free North Korea, the effects of inflation in Argentina, shortages in Cuba, and crime in Paraguay
9780394280417 | Vintage, April 27, 1994, cover price $15.95
Hardcover:
9780679403081 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1991, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: An account of the author's stay in a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, in order to learn about Zen Buddhism, introduces readers to Sachiko--a well-educated English-speaking, Japanese housewife locked in a traditional marriage but drawn to the author and to Western culture
Paperback:
9780679738343 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An account of the author's stay in a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, in order to learn about Zen Buddhism, introduces readers to Sachiko--a well-educated, English-speaking, Japanese housewife locked in a traditional marriage but drawn to the author and to Western culture
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441785282 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 20, 2011), cover price $100.00
Paperback:
9780886950194 | Bookpeople, December 1, 1984, cover price $8.75
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