Janine Pommy Vega (1942–2010)
Autor(a) de Tracking the Serpent: Journeys into Four Continents
About the Author
Obras por Janine Pommy Vega
Journal of a Hermit. 1 exemplar
Journal of a Hermit 1 exemplar
Island of the Sun 1 exemplar
The Road To Your House Is a Mountain Road 1 exemplar
Red Bracelets 1 exemplar
The Walker 1 exemplar
Skywriting 1 exemplar
Janine Pommy Vega's Book 1 exemplar
Pokhara 1 exemplar
Associated Works
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Pommy, Janine (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1942-02-05
- Data de falecimento
- 2010-12-23
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Willow, New York, USA
- Ocupações
- poet
musician
lecturer
teacher
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Bull Tongue (2)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 78
- Popularidade
- #229,022
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 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.… (mais)