Sacred Mountains of the World

Bernbaum, Edwin

ISBN 10: 0520214226 / ISBN 13: 9780520214224

Verlag: University of California Press, 1998

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Inhaltsangabe:

Since the beginning of human history, mountains have had an extraordinary power to evoke the sacred in our lives. Regarded as places of mystery and spiritual attainment by people in every culture, mountains arouse feelings of reverence and awe. In this strikingly beautiful book Edwin Bernbaum combines exquisite photography with years of mountaineering and scholarly research to provide the most comprehensive study of sacred mountains to date.

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"This book is fascinating . . . full of adventure, cultural significance and religious symbology."—Sir Edmund Hillary

"A treasure of a book that masterfully weaves together fact, history, legend, and spiritual truth."—Jacob Needleman, author of The New Religions

"Edwin Bernbaum has succeeded in unfolding the many aspects of this rich symbol, and has never forgotten to let the reader climb with him in this symbolic ascent. In our time of increasing ecological disasters—as well as awareness—such a book is a timely and important contribution."—Raimon Panikkar, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Once in a great and precious while, a book comes across a columnist's desk that arrests the spirit and causes one to see the world in a breathtakingly new way. [This] is such a book."—Georgie Ann Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sacred Mountains of the World
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good