Author: William H Eddy
Publisher: Tara-India Research
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187943556
Description
These fascinating essays and stories invite readers to join author Bill Eddy in exploring far-off places and unfamiliar cultures. He leads us as well to distant times in history and to other landscapes of the mind where his unusual perspective will challenge many of the habits of our thinking.
As he introduces us to a remarkable diversity of subjects and ideas, ranging from the navigational skills of camel caravans in the deserts of southern Tunisia to the ways in which verbal metaphors shape human thought, we are asked to reconsider our entire relationship to the natural environment. By the time we arrive at the end of this thoughtful journey, our view of the other side of the world will have taken on a very different meaning.
REVIEWS
These thoughtful essays invite the reader to see our environment in a very different light-not simply as a collection of external problems to be solved, but as an outgrowth of the way our minds have learned to perceive the world. If we are to change the outside, we must change the inside first.
-Russell E Train, Chairman Emeritus, World Wildlife Fund
Fresh, inspiring, and brief-these essays are a delight, and bring together a sharp focus on particular experiences with insight and wisdom.
-Rupert Sheldrake, Ph D, Biologist and author of The Rebirth of Nature
In this beautifully articulated, large collection of small essays, Bill Eddy shows us how breaking out of traditional patterns of thought can revolutionize our attitudes toward ourselves and our world.
-David Budbill, poet and playwright
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER PLACES
The Rendille
The Maasai
A Lost African Chief
Maps and Territories
The Dhami at Labar
Towers of Silence
Plane Tales from the Hills
Canyon de Chelly
In the Eye of the Beholder
BEYOND THE FAMILIAR
Kenge and the Buffalo
What Did the World Look Like
Galileo-Truth and Consequences
Let’s Change the Subject
The Great Reversal
The Missing Link
De Docta Ignorantia
Piece of Mind
The Sea
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
In the beginning
Metaphor
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
The Evolution of Evolution
THE DANCE OF MIND WITH NATURE
The Taj Mahal
Thou and It
Indoors-Outdoors
The Inside of Nature
Mind over Matter
To Talk of Many Things
Hail Columbia
The Early Exploration of Space
The Spirit in the Stone
THOUGHT AND THINGS
The Diversity of Life
Topsy Turvy
What’s That?
What Happened to Shangri La?
Uphill or Downhill in Nepal?
Is Small Really Beautiful?
How Much is Too Much?
Land’s End?
Something Missing
FROM AFRICA TO INDIA - FIVE TALES
A Garden Far Away
The Man with the Sun in His Hand
Of Ships, Giraffes, and Unicorns
Worlds Apart
My Father’s Desk