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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
In this witty, wandering travelogue, Geoff Dyer drifts through cities, deserts, and festivals, turning half-hearted journeys and misadventures into the occasional accidental insight.From the canals of Amsterdam to the temples of Cambodia, from the streets of Rome to the dust-choked spectacle of Burning Man, Geoff Dyer drifts, meanders, and sometimes flounders, finding glimpses of calm, clarity, and occasionally wisdom.Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It explores Dyer's fascination with landscapes, cities, and human oddities-festivals, ruins, roadside curiosities, and the stories we attach to them. Along the way, he considers the gap between expectation and experience, the curious ways we try (and fail) to improve ourselves, and how wandering, however half-heartedly, can sharpen awareness of the world, of time, and of ourselves.Written in Dyer's intimate, slyly funny, and reflective voice, this book is a travelogue of misadventures, fleeting revelations, and the kind of self-improvement that doesn't require mats, meditation, or much effort at all.
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White Sands
In this witty, searching collection of travel essays, Geoff Dyer journeys to remote and storied places, exploring art, time, and the restless nature of being alive.In this meditation on movement and meaning, Geoff Dyer reflects on why we go where we go, what we hope to find there, and how places, both real and imagined, shape our inner lives. From the deserts of the American Southwest to remote corners of China, Tahiti, and Scandinavia, he traces the strange mixture of anticipation, disappointment, wonder, and revelation that accompanies being elsewhere.White Sands explores Dyer's fascination with landscapes, art, and cultural sites-ancient ruins, land art installations, sacred spaces, and vast, empty terrains-and the ideas they stir. Along the way, he considers the stories we attach to places, the gap between expectation and experience, and the way travel can sharpen awareness not only of the world, but of time, mortality, and attention itself.Written in Dyer's characteristically intimate, sharp, and playful voice, White Sands captures the exhilaration and unease of being on the move, where travel is an ongoing attempt to understand what it means to be here, now, and briefly passing through.
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The Missing of the Somme
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
A Journey Through YugoslaviaA travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
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Isolarion
A Different Oxford JourneyA travel writing classic, with a new preface by the author and an afterword by Geoff Dyer.
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The Bad Side of Books
Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence€ 21,95 -
America
New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer.
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White Sands
Experiences from the Outside WorldIn the spirit of Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, his bestselling book about travel, Geoff Dyer is back on the road.
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
'A screamingly funny genre-defying feat . . . sublime' Maggie O'Farrell, Daily Telegraph
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Restless Cities
The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, this book traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis.
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White Sands
In White Sands, Geoff Dyer (“one of the funniest writers alive” —Chicago Tribune) finds himself on the road again, crisscrossing the globe from French Polynesia to northernmost Norway. Throughout his adventures—with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his “greatest experience from the outside world”; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles—Dyer interweaves fiction and nonfiction to craft an often hilarious, always inquisitive travelogue about the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves.
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Mordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and “one of our most original writers” (New York Magazine). This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In these genre-defying tales, he travels from Amsterdam to Cambodia, Rome to Indonesia, Libya to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert, floundering in a sea of grievances, with fleeting moments of transcendental calm his only reward for living in a perpetual state of motion. But even as he recounts his side-splitting misadventures in each of these locales, Dyer is always able to sneak up and surprise you with insight into much more serious matters. Brilliantly riffing off our expectations of external and internal journeys, Dyer welcomes the reader as a companion, a fellow perambulator in search of something and nothing at the same time.
€ 19,50