Tales of Wonder

Huston Smith has led a remarkable life. He has conversed with the Dalai Lama, lived as a monk in Japan, done LSD with Tim Leary and introduced America to Hinduism, Buddhism and other religions considered exotic in the fifties. But I had hoped that his autobiography would bring these stories to life,......more

I seldom read biographies, and still less often, autobiographies, making exceptions only for those subjects who truly fascinate me or who I believe have much to teach. Huston Smith falls squarely into both categories. Many years ago, my husband and I took a class on World Religions being given at the......more

Many years ago when visiting a nursing home, I met man who at the age of 101 was writing his first book. I met him again two years later and he was working on his second book. Like this nursing home patient, Huston Smith wrote this book shortly before turning ninety while living in an assisted livin......more

An autobiography of a man who made the world's religions his lifelong study, not in any impersonal way, but with a child's wholehearted delight. Before I had finished the book, I already knew I wanted a copy of my own.......more