"This is the first series to cater to the growing market for spiritual travel books. ...seeks not only to introduce sacred sites but to cultivate a sacred way of seeing.
[It] will be deeply appreciated... ."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

THE SPIRITUAL TRAVELER: NEW YORK CITY is a unique guidebook. It invites you to discover and explore a multitude of spiritual sites in all five boroughs where New Yorkers have sought peace and strength in the past and in the present. It covers all of the world's religions and spiritual movements, and is written for readers and seekers of every faith and none. The Spiritual Traveler: New York City introduces hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, shrines, meetinghouses, and other sacred spaces, and the communities that come together to worship, to celebrate, and to serve. It describes landmarks that rank among America's finest works of architecture and contain treasures of spiritual art and history. It lists restful rural-style cemeteries, the city's oldest and tallest trees, parks, botanical gardens, and other peaceful places. It includes sites that commemorate historic events of spiritual significance, great sacrifices, or movements for human welfare: memorials to those who gave their lives helping others, homes of writers and artists of spiritual masterpieces, and locations where new initiatives in social service were launched. The Spiritual Traveler: New York City reveals the stories behind these extraordinary spaces and places of spiritual power and takes you to the heart and soul of one of the world's great cities.

EDWARD F. BERGMAN is chairman of geographic studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York. He has also taught at other universities around the world, and has lectured at many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on topics ranging from New York City to world geography, world history and art. His previous writings about New York include A Geography of the New York Metropolitan Region; Woodlawn Remembers: Cemetery of American History; and a number of articles in The Encyclopedia of New York City.

PRAISE FOR THE SPIRITUAL TRAVELER SERIES

"...an important publishing venture and a notable achievement."
—Sunday Chicago Tribune

"...a unique travel series with a spiritual slant."
—Library Journal

"...explores a multitude of sacred sites..."
—Boston Sunday Globe

"...an exciting new addition to travel literature...splendid!" —Philadelphia Inquirer

"...an impressive new series of books."
—Dallas Morning News

"A travel guide with a difference!"
—NAPRA Review

"...gracefully written and quietly devout..."
—San Francisco Chronicle

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1-58768-003-3
400 pages (t) 5-3/8 x 8-1/4
with 100 color and b/w
$22.00 (t) Paperback with flaps