![]() ![]() Interest in Opal Whiteley, won an American Book Award. The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, the book most often credited with the current worldwide With a selection of Benjamin Hoff’s lyrical color landscape photographs, this is a unique, and uniquely accessible, And his chapter notes shed new light on the author’s surprisingly ![]() Than the long-alleged author, the “Old Master” of legend, Lao-tzu. He also makes the provocativeĬlaim-and demonstrates by revealing clues in the text-that the Tao Te Ching’s author was a young nobleman hiding his identity, rather Hoff points out in his chapter notes the many incidents of meddling and muddling that have been made over theĬenturies by scholars and copyists, and he corrects the mistakes and removes such tampering from the text. The Eternal Tao Te Ching is the first translation to employ the meanings of the pre-writing brush characters in use 2,400 yearsĪgo, when the classic was written, rather than relying on the often-different meanings of the more modern brush characters, as other ![]() From Benjamin Hoff, author of The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, comes The Eternal Tao TeĬhing (Abrams DecemUS $24.99 Hardcover), a new translation of the Chinese philosophical classic, the Tao Te Ching. ![]()
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