500 Great Books By Women discussion

The World and the Bo Tree, Helen Bevington, 1991, United States, ESSAYS

"Helen Bevington, a retired English professor, traveled extensively in the 1980s "in search of something—call it a bo tree, or Shangri-La, or earthly paradise—which is only another name for peace itself and these days is decidedly a fool's errand."...Her observations and intimate writing style make reading The World and the Bo Tree, a personal adventure; you are with her for a sunrise in Tibet, watching the river rocks change "every shade from brown to magenta to shining gold," and feel anxious with her when she goes back to her hometown "to dispel the more persistent phantoms by looking with my eyes instead of my memory."..."

(H.S., p. 224)