Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage by John Schott (English) Paperback Book

Description: Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage by John Schott, Phil Smith, Tony Whitehead Follow mythogeographer Phil Smith, photographer John Schott and ornithorgrapher Tony Whitehead, in words and pictures, on an imagined pilgrimage through a real but extraordinary landscape. Over the course of the 19-day Armchair Pilgrimage, we experience the world around us just as they did as they walked – finding our own destination. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Phil Smith (Crabman/Mythogeography) and Tony Whitehead join forces with master photographer John Schott to lead readers on a `virtual journey to explore difference and change on their way to an unknown destination. "What is most real is what you have still to discover.""Relax in your seat. Allow the train to take you along the waters edge to the beginning point of your walking pilgrimage… When the train pulls into the platform, step off. Hidden behind the platform is a broken machine; a mechanised fortune teller – the `voice of truth – discarded from the nearby arcade of slot machines. Propped against the side of a building, its mouth is silent, its pronouncements have ceased; any truths you find today will be your own."Pilgrimages – real and imagined - are always popular, sometimes compulsory. Bodh Gaya, Santiago, Mecca, Jerusalem, Puri: a few of the sites that beckon. The pilgrimage to the authentic self takes a similar path in an interior landscape. In the 15th century, Felix Fabri combined the two, using his visits to Jerusalem to write a handbook for nuns wanting to make a pilgrimage in the imagination, whilst confined to their religious houses.For Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage, the authors followed Fabris example: first walking together over many weeks – not to reach a destination but simply to find one – then, in startling words and images, conjuring an armchair pilgrimage for the reader… along lanes and around hills, into caves and down to the coast. "We arrived again and again at what we assumed would be a final `shrine, only to be drawn onwards and inwards towards another kind of finality… rather than reaching a destination, the pilgrimage was repeatedly reborn inside us, until its most recent rebirth in this book."Over the course of the 19-day Armchair Pilgrimage, they invite us to experience the world around us just as they did as they walked. So, over the first three days, they suggest that we contemplate, among other things:•Our habit of generalising – acquired 40-50,000 years ago, when our `chapel mind of specialisms became a `cathedral mind•Our tendency to let one thing remind us of another thing•What it might be like to be an ocean where fish swim through us•How the world experiences us just as we experience it: `gently feel for the feelers feeling for you•A world where we tend to `add meaning and intensity•A world where we let go (without the aid of dementia) of memory, imagination, desire and wild fancy.And, as the pilgrimage concludes: "Returning is never going back to the same place.""A brilliant idea, inviting us to `be present to a reality that is imagined and recorded, mediated by words and images. The feelings and emotions are no less `real than if we were actually standing in and experiencing that reality. I love the genius of words and images displayed here -- no less than the reality itself." Carol Donelan, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, Minnesota Author Biography Dr. Phil Smith has written more than 100 plays for companies including St Petersburg State Comedy Theatre, Opera North and Perpetual Motion, and he is dramaturg with TNT (Munich)]. He creates site-specific performances in South Devon beach huts, lidos, tea shops and other unconventional settings, mis-guides in National Trust properties, and counter-tours and drifts in city streets. He is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth and a visiting lecturer at the University of Exeter.John Schott is a noted photographer, filmmaker and academic. In 2003 he was Executive Producer of the three-part national PBS series, American Photography: A Century of Images, with an accompanying book authored by Vicki Goldberg and Rob Silberman. Since 1979 he has been a Professor at Carleton College in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies.Tony Whitehead is a celebrated ornithologist with a passion for the sounds of birds and how people can be encouraged to connect to nature through listening to and learning the "language" of wildlife. Review "A brilliant idea, inviting us to `be present to a reality that is imagined and recorded, mediated by words and images. The feelings and emotions are no less `real than if we were actually standing in and experiencing that reality. I love the genius of words and images displayed here -- no less than the reality itself." Carol Donelan, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, Minnesota Details ISBN1911193597 Author Tony Whitehead Pages 134 Publisher Triarchy Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1911193597 ISBN-13 9781911193593 Publication Date 2019-07-25 Language English Format Paperback UK Release Date 2019-07-25 Imprint Triarchy Press Place of Publication Bridport Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 50 colour photographs AU Release Date 2019-07-25 NZ Release Date 2019-07-25 Alternative 9781911193586 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:125252642;

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