{"product_id":"9781570621178","title":"Hard Travel to Sacred Places","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHard Travel to Sacred Places \u003c\/i\u003e is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer—novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner—travels with his wife, photographer Lynn Davis, on a photo assignment to the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents provide a vivid contrast to the peace that Wurlitzer and Davis seek, still reeling from the death of their son in a car accident. As Davis with her camera searches for a thread of meaning among the artifacts and relics of a more enlightened age, Wurlitzer grasps at the wisdom of the Buddhist teachings in an effort to assuage his grief. His journal chronicles the survival of age-old truths in a world gone mad.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shambhala Publications, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040738623728,"sku":"9781570621178","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781570621178_p0.jpg?v=1763792960","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781570621178","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}