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Hard Travel to Sacred Places Hard Travel to Sacred Places is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer - novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner - travels with his wife, photographer Lynn Davis, on a photo assignment to the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents provide a vivid contrast to the peace that Wurlitzer and Davis seek, still reeling from the death of their son in a car accident. As Davis with her camera searches for a thread of meaning among the artifacts ...
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Hard Travel to Sacred Places is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer - novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner - travels with his wife, photographer Lynn Davis, on a photo assignment to the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents provide a vivid contrast to the peace that Wurlitzer and Davis seek, still reeling from the death of their son in a car accident. As Davis with her camera searches for a thread of meaning among the artifacts and relics of a more enlightened age, Wurlitzer grasps at the wisdom of the Buddhist teachings in an effort to assuage his grief. His journal chronicles the survival of age-old truths in a world gone mad.
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A traveogue and journey of personal exploration set against the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma and Cambodia. After the death of his wife's son, screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer and photographer Lynn David embarked on a journey of the sacred sights of Cambodia, Thailand and Burma. Looking for the peace and wisdom of a more enlightened age, they found instead, amidst the relics and artefacts of the ancient past, the painful realities of a dissident and decadent modernity - golf clubs, sex clubs, ageing hippies, professional expatriates and myriad other monuments to Western invasion, alongside the harsh, homegrown political realities of the region and their own transportable, private grief. Part traveller's tale, part personal journey, the book explores the dark corners and dangerous roads of both worlds.
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- PublisherShambhala
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1570621179
- ISBN 13 9781570621178
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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