{"product_id":"9781571313959","title":"The Way Around","description":"Author: Nicholas Triolo\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781571313959\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way Around\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.'  Robert Moor, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Trails: An Exploration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. 'Do the reps', he internalised. 'Commit to the work. Grind for your dreams.' Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepeningdiscontent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile travelling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object  a kind of 'ritualised remembering' birthed by place. Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumambulation, he sets out here on three such extended walks. First, he completes the sacred thirty-two-mile revolution around Tibet's Mount Kailash, in search of a cultural counter to Western linearity. Then, following his mother's diagnosis with breast cancer, he returns home to California and takes part in an annual circuit of Mount Tamalpais, tracing a route made famous by Beat poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Allen Ginsberg. And then finally, he meets up with a quirky hydrogeologist in Butte, Montana, and joins his walk around the Berkeley Pit Complex, the largest Superfund site in thecountry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes,\u003ci\u003e The Way Around \u003c\/i\u003emodels what it means to experience a true revolution of heart and home  for the flourishing ofall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830044119198,"sku":"ADS-9781571313959","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781571313959.jpg?v=1778558982","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781571313959","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}