Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.
PIRSIG, Robert M.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there”: First Edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1974.
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First edition of one of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
"Enormously influential journey of self-discovery permeated by philosophical discussion, and startlingly original and disturbing imagery, based on an autobiographical account of a journey across the USA on a motorbike undertaken with his son in 1968; the shifts between narrative, analogy, and philosophical meditation have prompted several critics to see this work as a latter-day Moby-Dick" (Stringer, 532).
