Ebook {Epub PDF} Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster

Seriously unfit and unmotivated, Lisa Dempster is an unlikely candidate for a gruelling outdoor adventure. But when her life needs a shake-up, she decides the only thing for it is to hike the henro michi, a kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan. Lisa plunges into life on the road, getting well off the beaten track and experiencing the highs and devastating lows of 4/5(1).  · Neon Pilgrim is Lisa’s account of her pilgrimage on the Henro Michi trail in Shikoku, Japan – walking km of mountainous terrain in the gruelling summer heat. I admire people who have the courage to step outside their comfort zone to experience truly life-changing events.4/5. Neon Pilgrim. During a culture-shocked exchange year in Japan, fifteen-year-old Lisa Dempster promises herself to one day walk the henro michi, an arduous temple Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan’s Shikoku island.

Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster (eBook is basically the only edition which is easy to obtain outside of Australia/NZ) - another pilgrimage memoir, this time by a fat Australian vegan who did the pilgrimage in an attempt to treat her own depression. This is the one which has the most practical information about doing the pilgrimage, both because. Lisa Dempster is the Director and CEO of the Melbourne Writers Festival and the former Director of the Emerging Writers' Festival Director, where she founded both the Digital Writers' Conference and EWFdigital, an innovative online programming stream. Lisa has pioneered online literary programming in Australia and in she curated Future Bookshop, a National Gallery of Victoria studio. Title: Neon Pilgrim Author: Lisa Dempster Publication Year: Publisher: Aduki Independent Press Pages: According to her own description of herself, Lisa Dempster was an overweight and depressed woman approaching thirty when she decided to walk the Shikoku pilgrimage route between eighty-eighty temples. I am currently an overweight and depressed woman who just turned thirty, and I have.

Neon Pilgrim is a rollercoaster account of an Australian woman s km trek around the island of Shikoku, the famed 88 Temple Pilgrimage performed in honour of the ninth-century monk who brought Buddhism to Japan. Depressed, unemployed and overweight, year-old Lisa Dempster undertook the epic walk to cure her body and mind. Check out this great listen on bltadwin.ru During a culture-shocked exchange year in Japan, year-old Lisa Dempster's imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous 1,kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan. Perfectly suiting the romantic view of he. Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster - During a culture-shocked exchange year in Japan, fifteen-year-old Lisa Dempster’s imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan.