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Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture - Hardcover

Alter, Stephen

 
9780151005857: Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151005850 ISBN 13: 9780151005857
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stephen Alter is writer-in-residence in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, and was the director of the writing program at Cairo's American University. He is the author of four novels and a memoir, All the Way to Heaven, as well as the recently published Amritsar to Lahore.


Stephen Alter is writer-in-residence in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, and was the director of the writing program at Cairo's American University. He is the author of four novels and a memoir, All the Way to Heaven, as well as the recently published Amritsar to Lahore.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151005850
ISBN 13 
9780151005857
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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