A Beginner's Life: The Adventures of Tom Phillips
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (514 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1938812530 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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His other books include The Postcard Century. He is himself a collector of African art, specializing in the arts of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The English painter, writer, and composer Tom Phillips curated the groundbreaking exhibition Africa: The Art of the Continent at the Royal Academy in 1992.
About the Author The English painter, writer, and composer Tom Phillips curated the groundbreaking exhibition Africa: The Art of the Continent at the Royal Academy in 1992. His other books include The Postcard Century. He is himself a collector of African art, specializing in the arts of Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
"A reluctant journalist's remarkable journey" according to Nuzmon. Tom Phillips writes a wonderful memoir of a reluctant journalist, a man who would rather be a folksinger or a ballet dancer or a whirling dervish, but who jumps at a chance to chase stories around the world from the Velvet Revolution to Tiananmen Square to Nelson Mandela's release."My true nature is the present moment," Phillips announces as his moment of Zen epiphany. His journey through journalism and life has a bit of phenomenology about it, a sense that the meaning of our existence is created by what people do in each moment. It is an extremely kind book by a writer who prefers self-deprecation to criticism of others, but it offer. Joyce Hamlin said funny and poignant. This book is indeed an adventure. It's honest, well written, funny and poignant. Phillip's journey encourages us all on our own adventures.Like many men, Tom Phillips was determined to be successful. And he did well. As a journalist, he worked for Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Katie Couric. He witnessed Gorbachev's Moscow, the Velvet Revolution in Czechosolovakia, Tienanmin Square and Nelson Mandela's return from prison. Phillips met life head on (and it gave him plenty of knocks).But Phillips also sought meaning in life. He learned about Judaism, meditated at Zen Buddhist retreats and studied at India's ashrams before he encountere. "A wonderful memoir of a remarkable life told by a master" according to Virginia H. Brown. A wonderful memoir of a remarkable life told by a master story-teller with an incredible memory! From an unusual childhood to the ballet, to India and the study of Zen, to journalism, to a career in journalism that allowed him to witness history first hand, to a stunning epiphany, to a life with a warm, loving family. Highly recommended!
That's just the surface of this engaging memoir, both a panorama of history and a personal account of a beginner's life-one adventure after another.. AS A JOURNALIST, TOM PHILLIPS covered the turbulent second half of the 20th century from New York, Moscow, Prague, Beijing, South Africa and Somalia. As a seeker, he hitch-hiked across America, rode the rails to the four corners of India, sat with a Japanese Zen master, and encountered Christianity on a subway escalator