Crossing the unknown sea : work as a pilgrimage of identity

✍ Scribed by Whyte, David, 1955-

• Book ID: 110512442
• Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 332 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Includes bibliographical references (page 246) and index;The author assesses the workplace in terms of opportunity for rediscovering, shaping, and nurturing our personal lives, as he applies the stages of a holy pilgrimage to the process of seeking one's identity through work;I. Courage and conversation : setting out with a firm persuasion -- II. The Mountain farm : a stranger at the door -- III. At the cliff edge of life : from powerlessness to participation -- IV. A star for navigation : ambition, horizon and arrival -- V. Out of Ireland : a short sea crossing -- VI. The awkward way the swan walks : from exhaustion to wholeheartedness -- VII. The fatal shore : arrival and authenticity -- VIII. Outlaw imaginings : when the real you wants out -- IX. A Marriage with silence : escaping the prison of time and work -- X. Crossing the unknown sea : a voyage through the hours of the day. -- XI. Keats and conversation : the new and newly youthful world of work