Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart

Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, was living high in the...
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Author: Broughton Coburn
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Language: English
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Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart by Coburn, Broughton

Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart

$57.97

Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart

$57.97
Author: Broughton Coburn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, was living high in the Himalayas when she befriended American Peace Corps worker Broughton Coburn in 1974. In 1988, Aama came to visit him--on a trip prescribed by village priests as a way for the eighty-four-year-old, four-foot-eight woman to earn merit by making a difficult journey late in life.

Aama in Americais a vivid chronicle of what became a twenty-five-state, coast-to-coast adventure. Guided by the perpetual curiosity and deeply spiritual orientation of their ingenious, unpredictable travel companion, Coburn and his fiancée gradually began to view their country from an entirely new perspective. "Beneath the uniform, commercial, man-made epidermis of our country," Coburn writes, "Aama found a culture and landscape that was alive and sacred, and she steered us toward it."

Aama in America is on one level an offbeat American travelogue. But on another it is a profound exploration of beliefs, values, and lost spirituality, a rediscovery of the spiritual that lies beneath the surface of America, and a singular account of the meeting of two widely divergent cultures.

Author: Broughton Coburn
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/01/1996
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.23w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780385474184


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/1996

About the Author
Broughton Coburn, author or editor of seven books, including two national bestsellers, has worked in environmental conservation and development projects in the Himalayas for more than two of the past three decades. In addition, he has directed projects for the World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and American Himalayan Foundation.

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