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Pico Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and, most recently, Abandon. His articles appear often in such magazines as Harper’s, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He lives in suburban Japan.
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The Open Road
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
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The Skeptical Romancer
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that are collected here for the first time.
Maugham worked as... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that are collected here for the first time.
Maugham worked as... Read more >
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The Global Soul
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
From the acclaimed author of Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement.
Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life?shops, services, sociability?is available without a town, Pico Iyer takes us on a tour of the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
From the acclaimed author of Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement.
Beginning in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life?shops, services, sociability?is available without a town, Pico Iyer takes us on a tour of the... Read more >
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Video Night in Kathmandu
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 18, 1989
Price: $14.95
Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 18, 1989
Price: $14.95
Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East. Read more >
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Sun After Dark
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Lady and the Monk
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $14.95
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $14.95
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world... Read more >
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Falling Off the Map
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $12.95
The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $12.95
The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious. Read more >
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The Open Road
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $24.00
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father’s)... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $24.00
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher.
Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father’s)... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Abandon
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane.
John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane.
John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Cuba and the Night
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 1996
Price: $14.95
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 1996
Price: $14.95
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the... Read more >
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Wanderlust
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $19.00
Simon Winchester in Romania
Isabel Allende in the Amazon
Pico Iyer in Bali
Bill Barich in Italy
Sallie Tisdale in Japan
Carlos Fuentes in Zurich
Po Bronson in the Caribbean
and thirty-four more scintillating and sizzling tales of serendipity and wanderlust. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $19.00
Simon Winchester in Romania
Isabel Allende in the Amazon
Pico Iyer in Bali
Bill Barich in Italy
Sallie Tisdale in Japan
Carlos Fuentes in Zurich
Po Bronson in the Caribbean
and thirty-four more scintillating and sizzling tales of serendipity and wanderlust. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Tropical Classical
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $14.95
In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's dabbawallahs, who each day ferry 100,000 different... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $14.95
In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's dabbawallahs, who each day ferry 100,000 different... Read more >
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The Open Road
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Abandon
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
John Macmillan is an Englishman in California studying Sufism, and in particular Rumi, the thirteenth-century Islamic mystic and at present the best-selling poet in America. Traveling to Damascus, he hears rumors of a secret, heretical manuscript that might have escaped from Iran during the chaos of its Revolution, and, taking a... Read more >
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
John Macmillan is an Englishman in California studying Sufism, and in particular Rumi, the thirteenth-century Islamic mystic and at present the best-selling poet in America. Traveling to Damascus, he hears rumors of a secret, heretical manuscript that might have escaped from Iran during the chaos of its Revolution, and, taking a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Sun After Dark
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
Pico Iyer – one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers – invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist... Read more >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
Pico Iyer – one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers – invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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