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Eaux sacrées : un pèlerinage sur le Gange à la source de la culture hindoue
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9780151005857
- EAN
- 9780151005857
- Book Title
- Sacred Waters : a Pilgrimage Up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Travel, Religion
- Topic
- Eastern, Asia / India & South Asia, Essays & Travelogues
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 25.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Product Information
This is an account of a journey taken in India. The destination is the source of the Ganges, the holy and most famous of Indian rivers. It is a physical journey, involving train rides across the vast plains and passages on foot far into snow-covered valleys and mountains. It is also a spiritual journey, taking a man deep into the heart and soul of the ancient religious culture of India. Stephen Alter, who was born in the Himalayan foothills, crosses many miles, and several millennia, to search for the source of Indian religion. Along the way, as he reaches one holy spot after another, meeting grounds for pilgrims, remote towns, and forgotten temples, he delves into the myths and traditions of an antique land. He explores the tales of heroic derring-do, evil and good, and recounts the great stories of death, warfare, passions, and sacred wisdom that animate the vibrant history and religious traditions of India. As every pilgrim learns, a spiritual search involves travel but ultimately returns to the inner self. Sacred Waters is a richly told narrative of a beautiful land and of a man's interior journey, and is for readers everywhere who seek to plumb their own spiritual sources.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151005850
ISBN-13
9780151005857
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1954506
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sacred Waters : a Pilgrimage Up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Eastern, Asia / India & South Asia, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Travel, Religion
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
25.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds414.2.A557 2001
Reviews
In his latest travel memoir, Alter (Amritsar to Lahore) tracks the inexorable path of "progress" and various human responses to it. Progress is embodied in the roads and new dams that exist where before there were only footpaths for Hindus traveling to the "four main sources of the Ganga a journey known as the Char Dham Yatra." The once arduous mountain pilgrimage used to take devout Hindus up to four months, but now, in public buses or air-conditioned coaches, it might take a couple of weeks. Alter begins his journey on foot, traveling through the Himalayas, in whose foothills he was born. Seeing himself not as a mountaineer but as a pilgrim who "becomes one with this terrain," undertaking "tapasya," Hindu for surviving on "whatever the forest provides," Alter, writer-in-residence at MIT, describes political, socioeconomic and ecological changes in the terrain and people he encounters. One man calls a series of dams in Tehri "temples of the future," while another describes the same as "sacrilege, modern technology obstructing the inexorable current of a holy river." Well-versed in Hindu mythology, Alter (an atheist, himself) infuses the book with spiritual tales. It was the author's goal to evoke a fast disappearing way of life and topography, to show spiritual interests eclipsed by material ones. With vivid descriptions of the many people, villages, dharamshalas, shrines, ashrams and Indian customs so foreign and seemingly inaccessible to most Westerners, Alter achieves this end, portraying a landscape before it is effectively trampled by what is called "progress.", PRAISE FOR ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN Exquisite detail . . . His memories are full of the fragrance of deodar trees, of roads blocked by buffalo carts and jammed with buses, of rivers that flow between the forested ridges of the lower Himalayas."-San Francisco Examiner A beautifully written book about growing up between two cultures . . . Remarkably engaging and smooth reading."-Library Journal A richly absorbing read-a skillfully crafted double-refraction, in which two distant worlds illuminate each other through the pinhole of a child's eye." -Amitav Ghosh, Garhwal, boasting the four sources of the Ganges River in northern India, must qualify as one of the most sacred stretches of land in the world, and novelist Stephen Alter transports us there in his travelogue Sacred Waters. Countless pilgrims make the same trip every year, but whereas they now travel by bus, Alter does it the old-fashioned way, trekking to each of the headwaters on foot. Since this is also Alter's birthplace and childhood stomping grounds, we couldn't ask for a better guide. He knows each species of plant, bird, and beast by name and tells the grand tales of Hindu mythology associated with the ancient terrain. Fluent in the local languages, he also makes us privy to his chats with pot-smoking sadhus, greedy Brahmins, simple nomads, and pilgrims that he meets along the way. Although Alter has the tendency to slip into the emotionless detachment of a journalist in his descriptions, there remains enough wonder at the power of the natural landscape and color in the fantastic myths to make Sacred Waters a trek worth taking.
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-024954
Dewey Decimal
954.05/2
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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