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The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha's Daughters by Christine Toomey
Category: Travel
A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female spirituality that stretches back through the centuri ...Show more
When the Mountains Dance - Love, Loss and Hope in the Heart of Italy by Christine Toomey
Category: Biography
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth. The dance they spoke of was unrelenting.' Foreign correspondent Christine Toomey spent years r ...Show more
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy by Christine Toomey
Category: Biography
A memoir set in rural Italy, and a journey through history about a series of earthquakes that devastated the region 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerin ...Show more
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