Peacemongers.
A literary masterpiece, this latest book from award-winning author Barry Hill is a travel book, a history book, and a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment, and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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St. Lucia, Qld. :
University of Queensland Press,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | A literary masterpiece, this latest book from award-winning author Barry Hill is a travel book, a history book, and a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment, and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its atomic bomb. His traveling is imbued with the life and ideas of India's greatest artist and intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore, along with that of M.K. Gandhi, who Tagore called "Mahatma," Great Soul. He's then traveling, like Tagore, in Japan, and meditating on its militarist turn, its warmongering |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (678 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780702253089 0702253081 0702253251 9780702253256 070225309X 9780702253096 0702253103 9780702253102 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
