Magowan blends his intriguing account of the turbulent history and unique architecture of the fabled cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva--Mysterious oasis paradises deep in the deserts of Soviet Central Asia. 160 full-color illustrations.

Fabled Cities of Central Asia : Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva

Travel

Magowan, Robin

Asia

Cassell

Presents a collection of photographs of all fifty states, with views of wilderness and wildlife, urban centers, and country villages

America America

Arts & Photography

Bullaty, Sonja

Lomeo, Angelo

Photography & Video

Abbeville Pr

Heaven on Earth

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

All writers risk their identities, some with each sentence. But abroad, writing about a life that can't help but seem elusive, the charlatan in oneself may feel all too exposed. Limited to the surface, to the most fortuitous of impressions, how can a foreign pair of eyes hope to pen anything that can vie with something an insider, born there, carrying that landscape in his bones, might write? For more than four decades, poet Robin Magowan has journeyed in search of ecstatic spiritual experiences. Hitchhiking and walking, by bus or boat or when necessary by horse, he has explored lands as exotic as Nepal and New Guinea, as classic as Italy or France, and as forgotten as Persia and pre-Castro Cuba. All the while he has submerged himself, whether in the mysteries of Haitian voodoo or the simples pleasures of Burgundian peasant life. Known for the beauty, wit, and expressive power of his prose, Magowan's writing vibrates with the intensity of an outsider who crawls into the skin of a country--and emerges transformed.

Improbable Journeys (Marlboro Travel)

Travel Writing

Marlboro Press

And Other Voyages

Literature & Fiction

Mho & Mho Works

Internal Weather

Science & Math

Environment

Pasdeloup Press

Kings of the Road: A Portrait of Racers and Racing

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Springfield Books

Kings of the Road

SPRINGFIELD BOOKS LTD

Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral: Poems (The James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series)

This collection of poems by Robin Magowan represent moments such as a child mat-riding on Red Flag day, and drug overdoses during an affair with a terrorist dragon lady. It aims to take the reader inside, using an instinctive notation to register his fascination with sensation, movement and colour.

Poetry

University of South Carolina Press

Robin Magowan's poems in Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral represent a poetry of heightened awarenesses and high-edge experiences caught on the run. Seized from a miniaturist's perspective, the subjects are privileged moments: a child mat-riding on a Red Flag day; birds in a tropical forest; Greek sailors dancing; a trek in the Himalayas; drug overdoses during an affair with a terrorist dragon lady; personal experiences that combine into an oeuvre and a life. Magowan's aim is to take the reader inside, as far as possible, using an instinctive notation to register his fascination with sensation, movement, and color.

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