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Hardcover:
9781910787229 | Unicorn Pr Ltd, October 15, 2016, cover price $45.00
Product Description: âNobody who has not taken one can imagine the beauty of a walk through Rome by full moon,â wrote Goethe in 1787. Sadly, the imagination is all we have today: in Rome, as in every other modern city, moonlight has been banished, replaced by the twenty-four-hour glow of streetlights in a world that never sleeps...read more
Hardcover:
9780226030968 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 2011, cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9780226000466 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2012), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: âNobody who has not taken one can imagine the beauty of a walk through Rome by full moon,â wrote Goethe in 1787.
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9788493859510 | Azteca Difusora Del Libros S L, November 7, 2011, cover price $38.95
Through the centuries, people from all walks of life have heard the siren call of a pilgrimage, the lure to journey away from the familiar in search of understanding. But is a pilgrimage even possible these days for city-dwellers enmeshed in the pressures of work and family life? Or is there a way to be a pilgrim without leaving oneâs life behind? James Attlee answers these questions with Isolarion, a thoughtful, streetwise, and personal account of his pilgrimage to a place he thought he already knewâthe Cowley Road in Oxford, right outside his door.Isolarion takes its title from a type of fifteenth-century map that isolates an area in order to present it in detail, and thatâs what Attlee, sharp-eyed and armed with tape recorder and notebook, provides for Cowley Road. The former site of a leper hospital, a workhouse, and a medieval well said to have miraculous healing powers, Cowley Road has little to do with the dreaming spires of the touristâs or studentâs Oxford. What Attlee presents instead is a thoroughly modern, impressively cosmopolitan, and utterly organic collection of shops, restaurants, pubs, and religious establishments teeming with life and reflecting the multicultural makeup of the surrounding neighborhood.From a sojourn in a sensory-deprivation tank to a furtive visit to an unmarked pornography emporium, Attlee investigates every aspect of the Cowley Roadâs appealingly eclectic culture, where halal shops jostle with craft jewelers and reggae clubs pulsate alongside quiet churchyards. But the very diversity that is, for Attlee, the essence of Cowley Roadâs appeal is under attack from well-meaning city planners and predatory developers. His pilgrimage is thus invested with melancholy: will the messy glories of the Cowley Road be lost to creeping homogenization?Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from Robert Burtonâs The Anatomy of Melancholy to contemporary art, Attlee is a charming and companionable guide who revels in the extraordinary embedded in the everyday. Isolarion is at once a road movie, a quixotic stand against uniformity, and a rousing hymn in praise of the complex, invigorating nature of the twenty-first-century city.
Hardcover:
9780226030937 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Through the centuries, people from all walks of life have heard the siren call of a pilgrimage, the lure to journey away from the familiar in search of understanding.
Paperback:
9780226030944 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 2008), cover price $15.00
Hardcover:
9781590050491 | Nazraeli Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $35.00
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