Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas

by Gary Geddes

Book Overview

Features Afghan refugees, Pakistani dissidents, Tibetan monks, Buddhist scholars, mysterious cairns in Haida Gwaii, and ghostly remains in Mexico. As the Silk Road morphs into superhighways, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402753446
• ISBN13: 9781402753442
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Fun read.

I found this book to be engaging as well and for lack of a better word... fun. To me, this book is not so much about making political statements or discovery, or about trying to provide a dissertation on the turmoil in asia or the americas. I took this as a journal of a man who was trying to find himself just as much he is trying to "rediscover" the steps of an obscure monk in history. If you take it as such, you would find that the things he describes are much like what you would see if you traveled to places like cambodia or indonesia and you would enjoy the book. I did not like the abrupt changes transitions into a recollections or choppy timeline. The descriptions of the characters he meets are certainly poignant and sometimes revolting. However, Mr. Geddes ought not think that all chinese women are crazy about him.

A Passionate, Engaging Journey

Explore Gary Geddes' emotionally charged, spiritual terrain with him as he passionately traces the pre-Columbian steps of Afghan monk, Huishen, to North America. The compelling poetic prose, humorous at times, subtly reveals much about the political concerns of China, the Middle East, and Central America while transporting the reader into a significant adventure that is both history lesson and pure escapism. Comparatively, think about doing the dishes while singing along to Bob Marley's "One Love/People Get Ready." It's at once engaging and liberating.