{"product_id":"the-way-around","title":"The Way Around","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781571313959\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way Around\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.' Robert Moor, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Trails: An Exploration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. 'Do the reps', he internalised. 'Commit to the work. Grind for your dreams.' Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepeningdiscontent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile travelling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object a kind of 'ritualised remembering' birthed by place. Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumambulation, he sets out here on three such extended walks. First, he completes the sacred thirty-two-mile revolution around Tibet's Mount Kailash, in search of a cultural counter to Western linearity. Then, following his mother's diagnosis with breast cancer, he returns home to California and takes part in an annual circuit of Mount Tamalpais, tracing a route made famous by Beat poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Allen Ginsberg. And then finally, he meets up with a quirky hydrogeologist in Butte, Montana, and joins his walk around the Berkeley Pit Complex, the largest Superfund site in thecountry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landsc\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41506871476357,"sku":"PR402230","price":61.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/the-way-around_TNXPTXRW598T.jpeg?v=1769644475","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-way-around","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}