Tag: Pilgrim

Free Download Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZPFKGHL | 2024 | 10 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Annie Dillard
Narrator: Nan McNamara
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Dillard’s personal narrative highlights one year’s exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.

Free Download On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta By Thomas B. Ellis (auth.)
2013 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 940075230X | PDF | 3 MB
This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehta’s sense of cross-cultural philosophy and religious thought were affected by these engagements, and maps the two key contributions Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, Mehta outlined what the author dubs a ‘postcolonial hermeneutics’ that uses the ‘ethnotrope’ of the pilgrim to challenge the philosophical hermeneutic emphasis on supplementation and augmentation. For Mehta, the hermeneutic encounter ruptures, rather than supplements, the self. Secondly, Mehta extended this concept of hermeneutics to interrogate the Hindu tradition, arriving at the concept of the ‘negative messianic’. In contrast to Derrida’s emphasis on the ‘one to come’, Mehta shows how the Hindu bhakti model represents the very opposite, that is, the ‘withdrawn other,’ identifying thereby the ethical pitfalls of deconstructivism’s emphasis on the messianic tradition. This is the only full-length study in English of this high-profile Hindu philosopher.

Free Download Meg Murray, "Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0820328944 | PDF | pages: 548 | 5.7 mb
How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller, the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child. What does it mean? Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim as she wanders from New England into the larger world-and then back home under circumstances that Fuller herself likened to those of both the prodigal child of the Bible and Oedipus of Greek mythology.

Free Download The pilgrim art : cultures of porcelain in world history By Finlay, Robert
2010 | 415 Pages | ISBN: 0520244680 | PDF | 9 MB
Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances-from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.

Free Download Harry Bucknall, "Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim: On Foot, Across Europe to Rome"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1408187248 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 2.4 mb
Watching in disbelief as his computer was struck by lightning in 2007, Harry Bucknall had