White Sands

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From one of our most original writers Kathryn Schulz comes an expansive and exacting book firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves.Geoff Dyer s perennial search for tranquility, for something better, continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelated pilgrimages with a tour guide who is in fact not a tour guide at the Forbidden City in Beijing, with friends at the Lightning Field in New Mexico, with a hitchhiker picked up near a prison at White Sands, and with a dream of how things should have been at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries to work out what a certain place a certain way of marking the landscape means what it s trying to tell us what we go to it for He takes his title from Gaugin s masterwork, and asks the same questions Where do we come from, what are we, where are we going The answers are elusive, hiding in French Polynesia, where he travels to write about Gaugin and the lure of the exotic at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he goes to see the masterpiece in person only to be told it is traveling and in Norway, where he and his wife journey to see, but end up not seeing, the Northern Lights But at home in California, after a medical event that makes Dyer see everything in a different way, he may finally have found what he s been searching for. Free Read White Sands author Geoff Dyer For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr BOTWhttp www.bbc.co.uk programmes b07h6fmfDescription Many people love the books of Geoff Dyer and author William Boyd calls him a true original be they novels, ruminations or travel essays White Sands is his latest travel book and today he writes about his new home in Los Angeles and makes a pilgrimage to visit the house of an intellectual hero With characteristic wit and a keen eye for detail, he writes beautifully about place and always acknowledges that travel can be as much about BOTWhttp www.bbc.co.uk programmes b07h6fmfDescription Many people love the books of Geoff Dyer and author William Boyd calls him a true original be they novels, ruminations or travel essays White Sands is his latest travel book and today he writes about his new home in Los Angeles and makes a pilgrimage to visit the house of an intellectual hero With characteristic wit and a keen eye for detail, he writes beautifully about place and always acknowledges that trav...His visits to Tahiti, China, the Northern Lights, archeological sites of wonder is to experience Experience himself reacting to the site So that in the end he hopes to find himself through this experience of his experiences Thus he winds up where he started but before was not aware The villain though at times is the experience being diluted by tourism and commercialism, the corrosive passing of time Yet sometimes the experience of having no exper...premessa importante NON un libro di viaggio.Ci ho messo un po a capirlo, e all inizio mi piaceva pochissimo Poi, compreso che i viaggi sono solo un espediente per parlare di altro, l ho trovato brillante, intelligente, colto, autoironico, britannico.L unico fastidio rendermi conto del pozzo della mia ignoranza Pi di una volta ho dovuto far ricorso a wikipedia o a google images per capire di cosa si stesse parlando voi lo sapete per esempio chi era Sabato Rodia Senza googlare eh Ditemi premessa importante NON un libro di viaggio.Ci ho messo un po a capirlo, e all inizio mi piaceva pochissimo Poi, compreso che i viaggi sono solo un espediente per parlare d...I have a really hard time giving up books I ve started, but White Sands has me pulling the plug with 40 pages left to go I always feel guilty abandoning a book, especially now that there is so little left to read, and yet I have to admit that there s better stuff on my shelves beckoning to me while I sit here mostly not enjoying this book I ve come to the point in my reading that I can tell when an author has failed to win me over and getting to the finish line is nothingthan an exerci I have a really hard time giving up books I ve started, but White Sands has me pulling the plug with 40 pages left to go I always feel guilty abandoning a book, especially now that there is so little left to read, and yet I have to admit that there s better stuff on my shelves beckoning to me while I sit here mostly not enjoying this book I ve come to the point in my reading that I can tell when an author has failed to win me over and getting to the finish line is nothingthan an exercise in masochism So, reluctantly, I ve decided to call it quits a bit early and offer my thoughts on rest of the book that I read Dyer wrote this book, I think, to try and ...This book of incredibly written travel essays and some other meditations thrown in there deal with the essential question Why do we travel Some other, perhaps evenappropriate questions also arise as a result of traveling How did we get here And why did we come That one, most often asked when things fall apart see Dyer s essay on traveling in the middle of winter to Norway to see the Northern Lights.Just one of so many quotes I ve underlined in this book was the following, which ap This book of incredibly written travel essays and some other meditations thrown in there deal with the essential question Why do we travel Some other, perhaps evenappropriate questions also arise as a result of traveling How did we get here A...In this series of ten essays, Geoff Dyer explores the reasons why we travel using examples from the excursions that he makes He travels to China to see the Forbidden City in Beijing where he starts to become besotted with his guide there From his home town of Los Angeles, he makes a pilgrimage to visit the residence of TW Adorno and the art that is the Watts Towers There is a trip to Mexico to visit the art installation of Walter De Maria called The Lightni...Definitely not his best work, but still better than most when it comes to essays The thing about Dyer that generally makes him irresistible is he puts his own self in his work, his personality, his thoughts and ideas But this collection was missing, for the most part, Geoff Dyer Not until the last two essays does the Brit show up in the way I am accustomed to The second to last essay about the history and his visiting The Watts Towers in Los Angeles was one of his best he has written, and th Definitely not his best work, but still better than most when it comes to essays The thing about Dyer that generally makes him irresistible is he puts his own s...Dyer s a bit of a pill in his fussy, English way, and his initial eagerness to pluck himself up by the roots and thrust himself into alien environments is almost always a prelude to sustained passages of spirited whinging Flustered and querulous, like a duck who s been awakened in the middle of a really cool dream about wet bread, it s as if he s forever unaware that there is no exact antonym in the language for disappointment But bearing witness as Dyer s enthusiasm...Hilarious Insightful Masterful Fun I could go on it s just a great read. From BBc Radio 4 Book of the Week Many people love the books of Geoff Dyer and author William Boyd calls him a true original be they novels, ruminations or travel essays White Sands is his latest travel book and today he writes about his new home in Los Angeles and makes a pilgrimage to visit the house of an intellectual hero With characteristic wit and a keen eye for detail, he writes beautifully about place and always acknowledges that travel can be as much about disappointment as it From BBc Radio 4 Book of the ...

White Sands
  • English
  • 12 November 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 240 pages
  • 1101870850
  • Geoff Dyer
  • White Sands