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A memoir set in rural Italy, and a journey through history about a series of earthquakes that devastated the region

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When the Mountains Dance is a journey through place and time to the heart of a community ripped apart by earthquakes in Italy, past and present. It explores the ways, when faced with uncertainty, we create protective niches for ourselves - physical, emotional, sometimes imaginative - and how we find the courage the move on and rebuild. Through Christine Toomey's experience of the earthquakes and that of friends and neighbours and others she me...

When the Mountains Dance is a journey through place and time to the heart of a community ripped apart by earthquakes in Italy, past and present. It explores the ways, when faced with uncertainty, we create protective niches for ourselves - physical, emotional, sometimes imaginative - and how we find the courage the move on and rebuild. Through Christine Toomey's experience of the earthquakes and that of friends and neighbours and others she me...

A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two year, 60, 000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female spirituality that stretches back through the centuries and now embraces the radical possibility that the next Dalai Lama could be female.In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of e...

Part travel and history, part oral biography and reflection, Buddha's Daughters tells the story of the women - past and present, in the East and the West - who choose to become Buddhist nuns

An award-winning journalist vividly reports her two-year, 60, 000-mile global odyssey in the company of exceptional women who choose to dedicate their lives to Buddhism

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