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Title: Seduced By the Beauty of the World : Travels In India by Iman Bijleveld, Don Bloch ISBN: 0-8109-4543-6 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A MAGICALLY SEDUCTIVE BOOK
Comment: This magical book of beguiling photos and writing seduced me with the beauty of the world its authors captured. These aren't just colorful shots of India, but shots and text so vivid that I felt as if I were partaking in this "masti," the Indian philosophy which Bloch describes at one point as not so much seizing the day as letting the day seize you. I've been to India, but with Bloch and Bijleveld as guides, I felt I could move beyond the "rich surfaces" of the place, as Bloch aptly calls them, to the treasure beneath. The very first picture takes us inside: we're looking through two doors, the first giving onto a courtyard where someone minds a child, the second into a room beyond where a squatting couple polish gem,stones in their primitive shop. Whether the pictures are of tea pickers at lunch, their babies in baskets by their sides, or a naked holy man or a stonecutter using the heels of his powdery feet to steady his saw, there's masti in every one. Bijleveld's colors, the warmth of his eye, the brazen light suffuse each scene with human feeling and fellowship, of the viewer and the viewed. Masti is in Bloch's stories of encounters with barbers and fishermen, hijra and Sufis. It's in his descriptions of a man's "driftwood" face, a sari enveloping a woman like "a pod," the "soothing growl" of the yoga master, the dance of old women who "brace their feet against their partner's, clasp each other's wrinkled hands, and lean back and start spinning, their gaunt arms fully extended." This isn't just a great holiday gift, it's a joyous holiday in itself.
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Title: India Unveiled by Robert Arnett ISBN: 0965290018 Publisher: Atman Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Eyewitness Travel Guides: India (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Abha Narain Lamba, Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0789483955 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Impressions of Rajasthan by Carisse Busquet, Gerard Busquet ISBN: 208011171X Publisher: Flammarion Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters by William Dalrymple ISBN: 1864501723 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet India (LONELY PLANET INDIA) by Sarina Singh, Arnold Barkhordarian, Charlotte Beech ISBN: 1740594215 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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