| Letters from a Young Poet: A Lonesome Journey to the Heart of the Latin American Dream Contributor(s): Molyneux, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1941830641 ISBN-13: 9781941830642 Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Travel | South America - General |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Inspired by a lonesome journey through South America, this collection of true stories documents an equally difficult journey through the dark corners of the human psyche via the colossal canyons of Peru, deserted strips of paradise in Ecuador, volcanic salt-flats in Bolivia, windswept grasslands of Patagonia, and the far reaches of Tierra Del Fuego. With engaging descriptions and intriguing tales, Molyneux delivers a sensual portrait of a wild continent, exploring cultural landscapes and the nature of human restlessness and ecstasy. Ultimately, these stories, as all others, are about the essential elements of the human condition: suffering and love. |
Contributor Bio(s): Molyneux, Michael: - Michael Molyneux was born in Preston, England, in 1982. As a young man, in a small woodfire cottage on the west coast of Ireland, his uncle gave him copies of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters, Carlos Castaneda's Teachings of Don Juan, and John Muir's My First Summer In The Sierra, and -widened out the boundaries of [his] being.- A series of hiking trips around Europe cemented the belief that, as Muir had observed, -going out . . . was really going in.- He developed an interest in poetry and meditation and studied philosophy at university. He had a series of short-term jobs: careworker for Alzheimer's patients, postman, note-taker for deaf undergraduates, reader for a blind law lecturer, book seller, pizza maker, gardener, and painter. He hitchhiked to London to take an English-teaching course, after which he moved to Galicia in northern Spain to work in a language school. He saved up enough money to spend a year traveling around Latin America, the trip on which Letters from a Young Poet is based, before moving to Borneo to work on a teaching development project while completing the book. He now lives in Santa Marta on Colombia's northern coast, between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Caribbean sea. |