Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance
Autor Robert Crispen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781448215232
ISBN-10: 1448215234
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Reader
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1448215234
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Reader
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Robert Crisp was an extraordinary man: a Test cricketer described by Wisden as "one of the most extraordinary men to play Test cricket"; a decorated soldier (DSO, MC); a journalist who founded the South African newspaper, Drum, and wrote for The East Anglian Daily Times and The Sunday Express; an author, a mink farmer, an adventurer, a charmer. In short, a man of many talents.
Cuprins
ForewordA Note from EditorPrologue: A Hankering for Pericles SmithPart 1: Greece1 The Pattern of My Magic Carpet2 Rich Beyond the Potency of Wealth3 An Enormous Contentment4 A Small Piece of Warm Bread Dipped in Hot Olive Oil5 Money Itself Was Becoming Meaningless6 This Unlikely Foreigner7 It Was All Going a Bit Too Well8 I Could Have Happily Wrung a Million Speckled Necks9 What I Was Really Looking For Was a Miracle10 A Feast to Assuage Any Sort of Hunger11 Operation Whitewash12 My World Was Full of Spectacle and Conundrum13 Mugs Like Me14 Water, Water Every Where, Nor Any Drop to Drink15 Profuse Green Hands of Thanksgiving16 A Wiser and Better-Equipped Man17 I Was Due to be Haunted18 I Taught the Children of Gythion a New Game19 Sounds of the Sea and the Sky and the Earth20 The One Signal Failure of My New Career21 I Knew I Had to Come Home22 Eat, Drink and Be MerryPart 2: Crete23 I Liked to Think of Myself as a Leader24 My Travels with a Donkey25 It Seemed like the Savoy Hotel to Me26 An Ignorant Alien Who Didn't Know an Ass from an Elbow27 An Explicit Manifestation of a Trackless Waste28 I Had Seldom Felt More Alive29 No Place to Take a Donkey for a Walk30 Heraklion Lay Behind Me and All of Summer Lay Ahead31 A Tradition as Old as Crete32 Where Sea and Sky and Earth Blended in a Haze of Infinity33 A Scene Straight from the Bible34 I Was a Successful Experiment35 The Ultimate Peninsula36 The Crowd Shouted Their Approval37 A Hell of a Day38 A Mixture of Sadness and Joy39 Donkey for Sale - Speaks English40 Damnit, I Wanted to Be Recognised41 I Was on This Small Floating Paradise42 I Took the First Strokes of My Odyssey43 I Became Sensitive to Such Imperceptibles44 I Was Strangely Happy45 The Civilising Presence PhotographsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the AuthorHis Final Message
Recenzii
You have to buy this book! It's the perfect antidote to the cares of the world and an opportunity to indulge all latent escapist desires