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THE HALF KNOWN LIFE - PICO IYER TASCHENBUCH

Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert  One of
our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and
where we might find paradise on Earth.  It's so easy  I thought  to place Paradise in the past
or the future - anywhere but here.  After half a century of travel  from Ethiopia to Tibet 
from Belfast to Jerusalem  Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a
world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey  both inward and outward  Iyer roams from
crowded mosques in Iran to a film studio in North Korea  from a holy mountain in Japan to the
sometimes spooky emptiness of the Australian outback.  At every stop  he makes connections with
unexpected strangers - mystics and taxi drivers and fellow travellers - and draws on his own
memories  of time spent in a Benedictine monastery high above the Pacific  of regular travels
with the Dalai Lama  of hearing his late mother speak of sunlit moments in pre-Partition India.
By the end  he has upended many of our expectations and dared to suggest that we can find
paradise right in the heart of our angry  confused and divided world.

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