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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 12051 7 515460 1984 Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World total:92|5:39|4:34|3:16|2:3|1:0| 92 385 159 9 7659 4.04 4731 549 6528609 133661 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.19 89 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 5 5 false Thu Sep 20 22:32:14 -0700 2007 Thu May 01 16:41:26 -0700 2008 65942133 82944 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 4 0 false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 20:01:46 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 20:09:48 -0700 2009 The Road To Oxiana - these aristocratic types head off for North Africa and Asia with a refreshing lack of expectation that there are any bourgeois comforts to be had and tend to report on exactly what they see. It is only the passing mention that he is circumnavigating India...more...]]> 69773126 2509119 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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This book is great, Paul Bowles is an amazing writer.]]> 15207780 359659 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 4 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 20:41:15 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 20:41:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 44829813 1261238 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 0 0 false Thu Jan 29 23:18:39 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 23:19:40 -0800 2009 29628962 547376 527700 0060571675 9780060571672 1 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175550060m/527700.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175550060s/527700.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/527700.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.00 2 "Bowles, one of the four or five best writers in English in the second half of the twentieth century, embraced the desert as a Christian saint embraces his martyrdom. His self-abnegation and his love of traditional culture made him one of the keenest observers of other civilizations we have ever had in America. Unlike his countrymen he did not brashly set out to improve the rest of the world. For Bowles, Americanization was the problem, not the solution. As these startling, sober travel pieces show, Bowles, because of his powers of negative capability, was able to enter into the inner truth of even the most remote places and peoples."

-- from the Introduction by Edmund White

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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how do you get the job of recording the tribal musics of morocco for the library of congress? what a job

and his description of one's ex...more...]]> 8284889 528031 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 0 0 false Fri Oct 26 12:24:58 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 12:25:28 -0700 2007
"in a Western country, if a whole segment of the population desires, for reasons of protest, to isolate itself in a radical fashion from the society around it, the quickest and surest way is for it to rep...more...]]> 82408571 1492096 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 0 0 false Tue Dec 29 03:34:31 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 29 03:34:31 -0800 2009 81455709 2954566 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 0 0 false Mon Dec 14 18:14:11 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 18:14:11 -0800 2009 79183823 2987343 12051 0061137375 9780061137372 8 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048m/12051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491048s/12051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12051.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

]]> 1984 5 0 false Fri Nov 13 06:30:53 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 06:30:59 -0800 2009 75805858 48376 527700 0060571675 9780060571672 1 <![CDATA[Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175550060m/527700.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175550060s/527700.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/527700.Their_Heads_Are_Green_and_Their_Hands_Are_Blue_Scenes_from_the_Non_Christian_World 4.18 92 "Bowles, one of the four or five best writers in English in the second half of the twentieth century, embraced the desert as a Christian saint embraces his martyrdom. His self-abnegation and his love of traditional culture made him one of the keenest observers of other civilizations we have ever had in America. Unlike his countrymen he did not brashly set out to improve the rest of the world. For Bowles, Americanization was the problem, not the solution. As these startling, sober travel pieces show, Bowles, because of his powers of negative capability, was able to enter into the inner truth of even the most remote places and peoples."

-- from the Introduction by Edmund White

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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