Improbable Journeys (Malboro Travel) [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

It is Magowan's power of observation that makes this book special, but he is no passive observer. He not only describes scenes, he plunges in and creates a center of action.... It is magic that Magowan spins, a megic made more believable by his understanding and acceptance of the people he meets. - Mark O'Brien, San Francisco Chronicle; ""Magowan is that rare traveler who allows himself to experience everything and then to describe in clear detail what caused the experience... The difference between travel writing such as Magowan's and the ordinary variety is truly a matter of depth - how deep (that is, how much, how truly, how accurately) one can see."" - Donald Richie, Japan Times; ""Vissi d'amore, vissi del viaggio might well be this writer's theme song. He travels in order to love, he loves in order to find himself elsewhere. From deep in this or that interior his reader gets postcards; dissolving views, myth-haunted, radiantly dislocated particulars."" - James Merrill

For more than four decades, poet Robin Magowan has journeyed in search of spiritual experiences. Hitchhiking and walking, by bus or, when necessary, by horse, he has explored lands as exotic as Nepal and New Guinea, as classic as Italy and France, and as forgotten as Persia and pre-Castro Cuba, submerging himself in the mysteries of Haitian voodoo and the simple pleasures of Burgundian peasant life. This volume relates his adventures and experiences. His prose vibrates with the intensity of an outsider who crawls into the skin of a country - and emerges transformed.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.