Hard Travel to Sacred Places
by Rudolph Wurlitzer
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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.
- Rank: #1144052 in Books
- Published on: 1995-09-11
- Released on: 1995-09-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.28" h x .43" w x 5.00" l, .42 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
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