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Search - Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart
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Aama in America A Pilgrimage of the Heart Author: Vishnu Maya, called Aama (mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, was living high in the Himalayas when she befriended American Peace Corps worker Broughton Coburn in 1974. In 1988, Aama came to visit him - on a trip prescribed by village priests as a way for the eighty-four-year-old, four-foot-eight woman to earn merit by making a dif... more »
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Eileen G. (dulcimerlady) reviewed Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart on + 337 more book reviews
Fascinating memoir/travelogue of an elderly woman from Nepal who travels through America with her young befriended Peace Corps man and his girlfriend. I eagerly read each page, reveling in the cultural discoveries as well as the descriptions of our country itself. This was a pilgrimage like no other, an inner one as well as the obvious outer one. Deeply spiritual.
Interesting story of American man who brings an elderly woman from Nepal to the USA, and takes her on a cross country tour. The Nepalese woman' s impressions and encounters with American life.
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- Travel >> United States >> Regions >> General
- Travel >> Reference & Tips >> Essays & Travelogues
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> General