<![CDATA[Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure]]>

false <![CDATA[Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165366078m/3858.jpg 3858 9 In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive. 4227 2002 Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure total:1565|5:263|4:590|3:487|2:170|1:55| 1565 5531 2163 398 4 5 false false Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 21:01:26 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 23 18:38:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 6 false false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 18:47:02 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 14:35:34 -0700 2008
Basically, this is the memoir of a...more...]]> 1 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 11:45:29 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 11:46:14 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Sep 28 13:03:38 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 13:03:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 13:15:19 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 13:24:26 -0800 2008
I traveled to India this past year and her accounts from a western perspective are accu...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 21 19:11:47 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 19:15:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 14:14:52 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 20:28:13 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 17 10:17:38 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 10:17:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 21 21:04:09 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 21:04:09 -0800 2009
For my twenty-first birthday my parents gave me a plane ticket and a blessing to leave home and Australia for a year. ... ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 10 07:06:24 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 07:17:35 -0700 2009 I was hoping that this book is a deep, insightful someone's travel diary to India.
I just finished reading Chapter 2 when I had it returned.
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"In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India - a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 17:26:15 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 17:39:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 04:50:54 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 01:15:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat May 30 23:48:12 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 23:57:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 20:18:29 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 14:21:03 -0800 2008
This is a book I should have liked a lot. It was... okay. I'm not exactly sure w...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 14:53:07 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 14:56:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3858