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Tragic shores
- Title
- Tragic shores / Thomas H. Cook.
- Author
- Cook, Thomas H.
- Publication
- London : Quercus, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-9601 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 1 volume; 24 cm
- Summary
- Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward.With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he reflects on what these sites may teach us, not only about human history, but about our own personal histories. During the course of a lifetime of traveling to some of earth's most tragic shores, from the leper colony on Molokai to ground zero at Hiroshima, he finds not darkness alone, but a light that can illuminate the darkness within each of us. Written in vivid prose, this is at once a personal memoir of exploration (both external and internal), and a strangely heartening look at the radiance that may be found at the very heart of darkness.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography (pages 367-374).
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9601
- ISBN
- 9781849163262
- 184916326X
- 1784292427
- 9781784292423
- OCLC
- 982385691
- Author
- Cook, Thomas H., author.
- Title
- Tragic shores / Thomas H. Cook.
- Publisher
- London : Quercus, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliography (pages 367-374).
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781784295578
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9601