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The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth Of Yoga In America (2010)

by Robert Love(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

067002175X (ISBN13: 9780670021758)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: This book was not as good as I expected it to be. Don't read it if you actually want to learn anything about the practice of yoga. It is a somewhat interesting story of boom and bust. After great success during the 20's, Bernard's situation gradually declined, and he gradually sold off assests and his properties fell into disprepair. He was nearly destitute when he died in the 1950's. But the depression and World War II probably had as much to do with that as anything.
review 2: Missing a lust for life, a curiosity about the world, an acumen for history, and the grace to take the hand of the reader and explore with her the outlandish history of the P.T. Barnum of yoga. 'Tis a far, far better thing to read an engaging, thrilling and accurate history: "The Sub... moretle Body: The Story of Yoga in America" by Stefanie Syman. Published this summer, I think it's one for the ages. less

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