"These beautiful picaresque forays into the mind of the world
manage
to stand still and stand for themselves--as evidence that we belong
to one place--a seat of imagination made real by the storytellers,
architects, painters, musicians, and mystics Tillinghast
encounters. He brings to his sojourns a brilliant eye, a friendly
soul, and eclectic knowledge of a variety of disparate areas--Civil
War history, Venetian architectures, Eastern cultures, Irish music,
and the ways of out-of-the-way people."
--Philip Brady, author of By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt
BardTillinghast's prose is beautifully crafted throughout, which,
in itself, might sufficiently reward the reader for accompanying
this peripatetic pied piper on his extended world journey. But
Tillinghast's depth of knowledge in subject areas ranging from
theology, ethnology, sociology, architecture, art, and history
establish him as a true renaissance man."--David Brill, author of
As Far As the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail
Hiker "An Irish abbot in a monastery in Regensburg, Germany in the
twelfth century dispatched two local carpenters to Ireland to help
the Irish king Cormac McCarthy to build a chapel. Richard
Tillinghast hunted down the ruined church on a stormy day. Here is
his sentence about it: "Its steeply pitched roof, blind arcading,
and square twin towers on either side of the junction of nave and
chapel, if they could talk, would speak German." For armchair
travel, one could hardly do better than Richard Tillinghast. To the
Hilo coast in Hawaii, to Nepal and India, rural Ireland, to London
at Christmas and to the river towns of Tennessee and the story of
his particular South, he brings a remarkable combination of
erudition, wit, curiosity, and a limpid, wry, sometimes startling
prose."--Robert Hass "Whether old haunts or new ones, Richard
Tillinghast is the best of fellow pilgrims, commingling, as he
does, scholarship and erudition, a poet's word-smithing and
sentence making, with heart and humanity deepened in his travels.
He finds, in distant places and in different people, the exotic
treasure and the familiars of home. Journeys into the Mind of the
World is first class booking, a welcome aboard for a remarkable
ride." --Thomas Lynch
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