The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

by Pico Iyer

Book Overview

A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.

Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ultimate adventure? Because in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476784728
• ISBN13: 9781476784724
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/ Ted
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.3"