Hard Travel to Sacred Places Paperback - 1995
by Rudolph Wurlitzer
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- Title Hard Travel to Sacred Places
- Author Rudolph Wurlitzer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Shambhala Publications, Incorporated, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1570621179I2N00
- ISBN 9781570621178 / 1570621179
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.48 x 0.42 in (21.56 x 13.92 x 1.07 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 915.9
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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.