Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
Author(s): David Hinton
Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont--excursions informed by the worldview he's imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape to the origins of consciousness and the Cosmos, from geology to Chinese landscape painting, from parenting to pictographic oracle-bone script, to a family chutney recipe. It's a spiritual ecology that is profoundly ancient and at the same time resoundingly contemporary. Your view of the landscape--and of your place in it--may never be the same.
General Information
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- : Random House US
- : SHAMBHALA - TRADE
- : 0.367
- : 01 November 2012
- : 01 December 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : David Hinton
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 333.72
More About The Product
"A gorgeous book, a book of power, the very opposite of mystical. If you have a special mountain in your life, you'll read it with understanding; if you don't, it will make you want to get one!"--Bill McKibben, author of "The End of Nature" and "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet"
"A beautiful and compelling meditation on consciousness and the cosmos through a series of peregrinations around and beyond the intricacies of Chinese philosophy. The erudition is staggering, the spiritual aspiration profoundly moving. I couldn't put this guidebook down, into the night, a diamond moon over my shoulder, and suddenly it was radiant dawn. A unique and dazzling achievement."--Anne Waldman, author of "The Iovis Trilogy "
