Janine Pommy Vega (1942–2010)
Auteur de Tracking the Serpent: Journeys into Four Continents
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Janine Pommy Vega
Journal of a Hermit. 1 exemplaire
Journal of a Hermit 1 exemplaire
Island of the Sun 1 exemplaire
The Road To Your House Is a Mountain Road 1 exemplaire
Red Bracelets 1 exemplaire
The Walker 1 exemplaire
Skywriting 1 exemplaire
Janine Pommy Vega's Book 1 exemplaire
Pokhara 1 exemplaire
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Telephone 14 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Pommy, Janine (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1942-02-05
- Date de décès
- 2010-12-23
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Willow, New York, USA
- Professions
- poet
musician
lecturer
teacher
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Bull Tongue (2)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 78
- Popularité
- #229,022
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 14
Janine Pommy Vega's book has a fantastic and promising title and delivers on it. She travels light, it seems to me, and is more concerned about seeing the world as it moves around than being seen out in the world. She chooses destinations based on the serpent that she tracks in symbol and temple. The serpent is a symbol of the Goddess, and Ms. Pommy Vega is very much in touch with her inner divinity, though not in any egomaniac way.
Her descriptions are lucid and intriguing. I would like to see the places that she has seen. I would like to be as flexible a traveler as she is, and now have some sense of what that would involve. Much of it is not very pretty. Most of it reminds me that, unlike her, I will likely not travel alone.
It is a weekend read, yes, but a long weekend that does not involves chores or distractions.… (plus d'informations)