Book description
In April 2004, Piers Moore Ede embarked on a very unusual journey.
Disheartened by a world seemingly hooked on material wealth and
scientific fact, he decided to travel the world in search of something
completely other - the magical, the mystical, the numinous.
In All Kinds of Magic
, Piers recounts this voyage of re-enchantment, which led him from
snow-blanketed villages in the Himalayas to a dappled, ancient Sufi
quarter in Delhi; from the world's largest religious festival on the
banks of the swollen Ganges to tiny, covert communities of whirling
dervishes in rural Turkey. He met remarkable individuals who appeared to
be able to heal any ailment, channel powerful deities, glimpse the
future or transcend everyday consciousness by imbibing strange, bitter
herbs. Along the way he began to explore what spirituality means to us
now, and what it can and ought to mean in our looming future of
political, economic and environmental uncertainty.
Lyrical and clear-sighted, All Kinds of Magic
is a fascinating quest to the hidden world of miracles that is at once
deeply personal and universal in its scope. Piers Moore Ede has worked
as a farmer, boat driver, surfing instructor, poetry teacher, and baker.
He has travelled widely, and contributed to many literary, travel and
environmental publications including the Daily Telegraph
, the Times Literary Supplement
, Ecologist
, Traveller
and Earth Island Journal
. He is the author of Honey and Dust
, winner of a D. H. Lawrence Prize for Travel Writing.
