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OverviewRenowned poet Richard Tillinghast’s wanderlust and restless spirit are nearly as well known as his verses. This book of essays captures that penchant to wander, yet Journeys into the Mind of the World is not merely a compilation of travel stories – it is a book of places. It explores these chosen locations – Ireland, England, India, the Middle East, Tennessee, Hawaii – in a deeper way than would be typical of travel literature, attempting to enter not just the world, but “the mind of the world” – the roots and history of places, their political and cultural history, spiritual, artistic, architectural, and ethnic dimensions. Behind each essay is the presence, curiosity, and intelligence of the author himself, who uses his experience of the places he visits as a way of bringing the reader into the equation. Tillinghast illuminates his travels with a brilliant eye, a friendly soul, and eclectic knowledge of a variety of disparate areas – Civil War history, Venetian architecture, Asian cultures, Irish music, and the ways of out-of-the-way people. This attention to history and cultural embeddedness lends unique perspectives to each essay. At the heart of his journeys are his deep roots in the South, tracing back to his hometown in Tennessee. The book explores not only Tillinghast’s childhood home in Memphis, but even the time before his birth when his mother lived in Paris. Readers will feel a sense of being everywhere at once, in a strange simultaneity, a time and place beyond any map or guidebook. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard TillinghastPublisher: University of Tennessee Press Imprint: University of Tennessee Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781621902812ISBN 10: 1621902811 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 28 February 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThese beautiful picaresque forays into the mind of the world manage to stand still and stand for themselves as evidence that we belong to one place a seat of imagination made real by the storytellers, architects, painters, musicians, and mystics Tillinghast encounters. He brings to his sojourns a brilliant eye, a friendly soul, and eclectic knowledge of a variety of disparate areas Civil War history, Venetian architectures, Eastern cultures, Irish music, and the ways of out-of-the-way people. Philip Brady, author of<i>By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard</i></p>Tillinghast s prose is beautifully crafted throughout, which, in itself, might sufficiently reward the reader for accompanying this peripatetic pied piper on his extended world journey. But Tillinghast s depth of knowledge in subject areas ranging from theology, ethnology, sociology, architecture, art, and history establish him as a true renaissance man. David Brill, author of<i>As Far As the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker</i></p> These beautiful picaresque forays into the mind of the world manage to stand still and stand for themselves as evidence that we belong to one place a seat of imagination made real by the storytellers, architects, painters, musicians, and mystics Tillinghast encounters. He brings to his sojourns a brilliant eye, a friendly soul, and eclectic knowledge of a variety of disparate areas Civil War history, Venetian architectures, Eastern cultures, Irish music, and the ways of out-of-the-way people. Philip Brady, author of<i>By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard</i></p>Tillinghast s prose is beautifully crafted throughout, which, in itself, might sufficiently reward the reader for accompanying this peripatetic pied piper on his extended world journey. But Tillinghast s depth of knowledge in subject areas ranging from theology, ethnology, sociology, architecture, art, and history establish him as a true renaissance man. David Brill, author of<i>As Far As the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker</i> An Irish abbot in a monastery in Regensburg, Germany in the twelfth century dispatched two local carpenters to Ireland to help the Irish king Cormac McCarthy to build a chapel. Richard Tillinghast hunted down the ruined church on a stormy day. Here is his sentence about it: Its steeply pitched roof, blind arcading, and square twin towers on either side of the junction of nave and chapel, if they could talk, would speak German. For armchair travel, one could hardly do better than Richard Tillinghast. To the Hilo coast in Hawaii, to Nepal and India, rural Ireland, to London at Christmas and to the river towns of Tennessee and the story of his particular South, he brings a remarkable combination of erudition, wit, curiosity, and a limpid, wry, sometimes startling prose. Robert Hass</p> These beautiful picaresque forays into the mind of the world manage to stand still and stand for themselves--as evidence that we belong to one place--a seat of imagination made real by the storytellers, architects, painters, musicians, and mystics Tillinghast encounters. He brings to his sojourns a brilliant eye, a friendly soul, and eclectic knowledge of a variety of disparate areas--Civil War history, Venetian architectures, Eastern cultures, Irish music, and the ways of out-of-the-way people. --Philip Brady, author of <i>By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard</i></p>Tillinghast's prose is beautifully crafted throughout, which, in itself, might sufficiently reward the reader for accompanying this peripatetic pied piper on his extended world journey. But Tillinghast's depth of knowledge in subject areas ranging from theology, ethnology, sociology, architecture, art, and history establish him as a true renaissance man. --David Brill, author of <i>As Far As the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker</i> An Irish abbot in a monastery in Regensburg, Germany in the twelfth century dispatched two local carpenters to Ireland to help the Irish king Cormac McCarthy to build a chapel. Richard Tillinghast hunted down the ruined church on a stormy day. Here is his sentence about it: Its steeply pitched roof, blind arcading, and square twin towers on either side of the junction of nave and chapel, if they could talk, would speak German. For armchair travel, one could hardly do better than Richard Tillinghast. To the Hilo coast in Hawaii, to Nepal and India, rural Ireland, to London at Christmas and to the river towns of Tennessee and the story of his particular South, he brings a remarkable combination of erudition, wit, curiosity, and a limpid, wry, sometimes startling prose. --Robert Hass Whether old haunts or new ones, Richard Tillinghast is the best of fellow pilgrims, commingling, as he does, scholarship and erudition, a poet's word-smithing and sentence making, with heart and humanity deepened in his travels. He finds, in distant places and in different people, the exotic treasure and the familiars of home. <i>Journeys into the Mind of the World </i>is first class booking, a welcome aboard for a remarkable ride. --Thomas Lynch</p> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |