Download PDF by Satish Kumar: No Destination: Autobiography of a Pilgrim

By Satish Kumar

ISBN-10: 0857842617

ISBN-13: 9780857842619

whilst he used to be in simple terms 9 years outdated, Satish Kumar renounced the realm and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain priests. Dissuaded from this direction by means of an internal voice on the age of eighteen, he turned a campaigner for land reform, operating to show Gandhi's imaginative and prescient of a renewed India into truth. Fired through the instance of Bertrand Russell, he undertook an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, strolling from India to the United States with none funds, via mountains, deserts, storms and snow. It was once an experience within which he used to be thrown into penal complex in France, confronted a loaded gun in the USA, and brought packets of 'peace tea' to the leaders of the 4 nuclear powers. In 1973 he settled in England, taking over the editorship of Resurgence journal, and turning into the guiding mild at the back of a few ecological, non secular and academic ventures. Following Indian culture, in his 50th yr he undertook one other pilgrimage: back with none cash, he walked to the holy locations of england - Glastonbury, Lindisfarne, and Iona. the recent hardback 4th variation is released in 2014 to commemorate 25 years because the origin of Schumacher university, with new chapters concerning the collage and to convey Satish's tale up to date. Written with a penetrating simplicity, No vacation spot is an exciting account of a rare life.

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