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The price of finding love? Not less than everything.Philippa Rees, an 'ardent stoic', in search of love, recaptures A Life of extra-ordinary timely miracles, improbable encounters with vivid, brave characters, and wondrous wild places. Her bleak longing is stripped of illusions and then dressed for the loving embrace of the Love in search of her, the spontaneous, loving Creation which gifts an emerging writer the fortitude and vocabulary for something truly to write home about! Writing of this calibre is a rarity, as it is also to find an autobiography that goes far beyond the annals of ordinary experience to become a voyage of mythic proportion for both the author and the reader. ROBERT KNOWLES An only child, a burden to her single mother and born in South Africa in the middle of a war, the author had to discern life's purpose by living it. She rides through the widest emotional landscapes of contrast: the Apartheid conflict between black and white, between Boer and British, and the disconnect between African and European cultures, the generosity of strangers, the betrayal of friends, and rejection by family. Through all these fractured mirrors, the patchwork pilgrimage is towards the transcendent lovingness of Creation. We all have a lamp to trim for the coming of our bridegroom. This harrowing but often humorous chronicle (God tells good stories with both wit and parody) is one such Trimming. Its natural mysticism emerges like smoke from damp leaves. Only the companionship of a long-dead author, the inspiration of George Eliot and her nostalgic portraits of England's ancient antiquity and its unsung heroes kept her company, affirmed her independence of mind, and summoned her to make the poetic English language her own. Profound insights into spiritual and philosophical understanding are subtly woven throughout the beautifully written narrative. They will challenge your conventional beliefs and inspire recognition in your own life of your Perfection in the Commonplace. ' it is rare to find such an unflinching gaze - unsentimental but tender. Her prose is matchless and her characters live and breathe. I so enjoyed this book' JOBO on Amazon

About the Author :
About the Author's Life: Reconciliation of extremes could be said to be the overarching theme, both in this book and in the author's life. An only child in the conflicted world of apartheid South Africa, she had a grandfather fluent in both Zulu and Swahili and a grandmother who claimed to be related to Elizabeth Barrett Browning with an aunt who knew George Eliot. She did not believe either claim! That was the hybrid blood. Then other ingredients were enfolded: the languages that this book would draw upon: Theology and Metaphysical poetry at school, and almost every faculty at University, from Medicine through Architecture and Fine Art, until Classics gave way to Psychology and Zoology, studying under the seminal palaeontologist Raymond Dart and the father of embryology, B.I. Balinsky. Later, marriage to a marine biologist and photographer meant a nomadic life on deserted Mozambique islands with fiddler crabs and mangrove swamps. An association with Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz, at the Max Planck Institute introduced the dynamic field of animal behaviour. Later, she lectured on Saints and Scientists at Bristol University. Safari of a Patchwork Pilgrim is her creative recovery of an extraordinary life. Through writing it, she discovered George Eliot 'seated' at her own family's fire in South Africa!

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'Philippa's artistry documents a rich adventure at the confluence of the sacred and the material...from an African childhood to the jungles of British academia. A wonderful life of discovery and enchantment.' JACKIE BORTOFT ' The descriptive writing is so vivid that I could smell the heat of Africa and feel the comfort and safety of an England tragically now destroyed. The dichotomy between them, with vastly different experiences and characters in each, is as fascinating as the story itself...The conversations between her and the Daimon, told with light-hearted objectivity, added a philosophical dimension of universal relevance. This book is not only about her life but about all of us searching for meaning, understanding and our hunger to be spiritually uplifted. It left me profoundly moved. ' AN INKLING Throughout this life story, synchronicity is woven into its remarkably colourful tapestry. "Coincidences" that defy both time and space and hint that something mysterious is going on beneath the surface of normal life suggest, as the story unfolds, that everything that happens is profoundly connected. ROBERT KNOWLES


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780957500273
  • Publisher: CollaborArt Books
  • Publisher Imprint: CollaborArt Books
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 636
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A LIfe
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0957500270
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jan 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 929 gr


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