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Wrack

by James Bradley

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

A user-friendly guide illustrated with 240 two-color photographs and illustrations, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit sets forth the tenets of this gentle yet rigorous exercise as no other book has. Integrating the teachings of every tradition, internationally renowned yoga instructor Donna Farhi reveals how yoga enhances the connections between the mind, body, and spirit. She outlines the seven simple movement principles that underlie all human motion and provides exercises to help readers understand how they can achieve all yoga postures. She also discusses the ten ethical precepts that are the foundation of all yoga teachings and explains how to incorporate them into a spiritually and emotionally rewarding inner practice. At the heart of Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit are more than seventy-five yoga asanas or postures. Each is one pictured and described in detail, and they are arranged into related groups-including standing postures, sitting postures, arm balances, and breathing practices-for easy reference. A selection of yoga practices of varying lengths and levels of difficulty provides challenges and inspiration for beginner, inter- mediate, and advanced students. A huge resurgence of interest in yoga is sweeping the country. With its broad scope and holistic approach, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit is the ideal book for today's mainstream audience.

Review:

"Wrack is taut with raw human need, both the hot-blooded romantic kind and a chillier 'reptilian hind-brain hunger'... An elegant debut:" (Janice P. Nimura, The New York Times Book Review.)

Review:

"Bradley's prose reverberates with a stark, primal rhythm as past and present collide in the shifting sands of the New South Wales coast ... a novel that is both ingenious and gripping" (Robin Vidimos, The Denver Post).

Synopsis:

David Norfolk, an archaeologist searching for a sixteenth-century Portuguese ship long rumored to be buried beneath sand dunes in southern Australia, unearths the body of a man apparently murdered fifty years ago. Nearing the end of his funding and desperate to find the ship, Norfolk calls upon a decrepit old man named Kurt Seligman, who lies dying in a shack near the excavation site. Hoping that Seligman knows something about the location of the Portuguese ship and about the identity of the dead man, Norfolk soon finds himself entranced by a strange and impassioned tale, a cryptic confession of obsessive love and betrayal in the 1930s and '40s.

Sensuous, erudite, and framed by maritime history and myth, Wrack spins a web of lies, sex, and regret that is as unusual as it is beautiful.

About the Author

James Bradley, lauded as one of Australia's most talented new writers, lives in Sydney. Wrack won the 1998 Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award and was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Holt will publish Bradley's new novel, The Deep Field in May 2000.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780805064476
Subtitle:
A Novel
Author:
Bradley, James
Publisher:
Holt Paperbacks
Location:
New York, NY
Subject:
General
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Australia
Subject:
Suspense
Subject:
Shipwrecks
Subject:
Suspense fiction
Subject:
Excavations (archaeology)
Subject:
Archaeologists
Subject:
Excavations
Subject:
Literary
Edition Description:
Owl Books
Series Volume:
00-486
Publication Date:
20000501
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.38x5.54x.92 in. .76 lbs.

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