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Autore: Hill Barry Visualizza persona
Titolo: Peacemongers / / Barry Hill Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia : , : University of Queensland Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (678 p.)
Disciplina: 291.446
Soggetto topico: Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Author's Note - Rabindranath Tagore; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; 1 SLIPPERY BUDDHA; 2 TAGORE GOES EAST - First Visit to Japan; 3 IN THE NAME OF THE BUDDHA - Tagore's Return to the Far East, 1924 and 1929; 4 TAGORE'S PIANO; 5 MOTHER BURNING; 6 REASON AND LOVELESSNESS - Tagore, the Tokyo Trial and Justice Pal; 7 AT THE EDGE OF THE FOREST - Essential Death, Essential Life; 8 HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR; 9 THREE DAYS LATER; 10 TRUE DREAMS OF FLIGHT; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index; Copyright
Sommario/riassunto: A literary masterpiece, this latest book from award-winning author Barry Hill is a travel book, a history book, and a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment, and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its atomic bomb. His traveling is imbued with the life and ideas of India's greatest artist and intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore, along with that of M. K. Gandhi, who Tagore called "Mahatma," Great Soul. He's then traveling, like Tagore, in Japan, and meditating on its militarist turn, its warmongering
Titolo autorizzato: Peacemongers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7022-5308-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459851103321
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