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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: White sands
    sub title: experiences from the outside world
  title info:
    title: Essays. Selections
  name:
    name part: Dyer, Geoff
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: essay
  genre: Essays.
  genre: Travel writing.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 233 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
  abstract: "From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book--firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive--about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's perennial search for tranquility, for "something better," continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelated pilgrimages--with a tour guide who is in fact not a tour guide at the Forbidden City in Beijing, with friends at the Lightning Field in New Mexico, with a hitchhiker picked up near a prison at White Sands, and with "a dream of how things should have been" at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries "to work out what a certain place--a certain way of marking the landscape--means; what it's trying to tell us; what we go to it for." He takes his title from Gaugin's masterwork, and asks the same questions: Where do we come from, what are we, where are we going? The answers are elusive, hiding in French Polynesia, where he travels to write about Gaugin and the lure of the exotic; at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he goes to see the masterpiece in person only to be told it is traveling; and in Norway, where he and his wife journey to see, but end up not seeing, the Northern Lights. But at home in California, after a medical event that makes Dyer see everything in a different way, he may finally have found what he's been searching for"--
  table of contents: Where? What? Where? -- Forbidden city -- Space in time -- Time in space -- Northern dark -- White sands -- Pilgrimage -- The ballad of Jimmy Garrison -- Beginning.
  note: Geoff Dyer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    topic: Self-consciousness (Awareness)
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL
    topic: Essays & Travelogues
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL
    geographic: United States
    topic: General
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dyer, Geoff
    topic: Travel
  classification: PR6054.Y43 A6 2016
  classification: 824/.914
  classification: 910/.4092
  classification: TRV010000 BIO026000 TRV025000
  identifier: 9781101870853
  identifier: 1101870850
  identifier: 9781101870860
  identifier: 2015030019
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150909
    record change date: 20170927135731.0
    record identifier: in00003781078
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng