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India - A Guide to the Experience

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Updated version now available in ebook format.
200 pages, over 150 original photographs, in full color. (Kindle only shows the images in black and white, ipad and iphone give full color). Hardback: (0 905116 10 0) $25 Paperback: (0 905116 11 9) $18

Read two sample chapters on the net.

Benares

The Taj Mahal

"The entire text is spread out in 28 short chapters, some of them buttressed with useful and relevant historical facts and figures (Ryan studied ancient history and philosophy at London University)..double page spreads in colour convey the ambience in the light at Pushkar, Goa and Benares..'
The Hindustan Times, India's leading newspaper.

'A delightful book...takes readers on a journey from one end of the country to the other'
Homes and Travel

'Breathtaking...a lovely book..the author knows the perils of travelling in India so well...he has scattered tips for would-be ventureres throughout'
Birmingham Evening Mail

Taboo.

A novel by David Stuart Ryan. 192pp. Now in ebook format
Set in modern day Germany with echoes back to the troubled past. A mystery romance and probe into the very heart of the new Germany.

Read the first chapter as have over 10,000 people on the web. First chapter of Taboo

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The Lost Journal of Robyn Hood - Outlaw

 

A novel by David Stuart Ryan. Now available as an ebook.

'The racy writing style is worth a place on some antique coffee table if not in the monastery library.' Yorkshire Post.

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John Lennon's Secret.

The bestselling biography reveals a very different John Lennon from the popular image. The author draws on the extensive files of Time magazine as well as interviewing many of those who were part of the Beatles circle.

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The Cream of the Troubadour Coffee House

112pp, 100 poems, large format paperback. $20.

From the legendary haunt of Bob Dylan, the Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon, Joan Baez and many more, 40 mainly British and American poets who read at the weekly performances that became a landmark for London poetry.

Sample poetry from David Stuart Ryan, Home Cronyn, indian yogi Ganesh Baba, Ariane Loersch, David Satherley, Allyson Scott, Cinzia Napoli, Mike Burgess and Loris Essary.

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The Blue Angel

- the life and films of Marlene Dietrich

 

An award-winning biography that reveals previously hidden secrets about the German star including her relationship with Adolf Hitler.

Click here for the first chapter.

"It was a very interesting book and really lets you step into the life of Marlene Dietrich before she BECAME Marlene Dietrich. It really kept my interest to the last page.
Highly recommended. " Karen Werner

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The Sphere of the Moon Goddess

- the illustrated poetry of David Stuart Ryan

 

This new book has taken a long time to be published but it has been well worth the wait. New technology makes it possible to reproduce all the original pictures and poems of the poet as he journeys overland to India, recreating in astonishingly vivid form the experience of visiting the mysterious East. Strange discoveries await as you enter the entirely different Indian environment, and find, like the poet, that you are subtly, imperceptibly and permanently changed as a result.

It is now available both as an ebook and in print form, through Amazon, CreateSpace and Barnes and Noble

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The Conjunction of the Sun and Moon

- the illustrated poetry of David Stuart Ryan

 

The second volume of The Seven Worlds takes you on a journey into the heart of the human condition, the natural world and the world of man and woman meet head on in a stunning series of pictures and poems, more than 150, all of which are original and released for the first time. Sensual and erotic, powerful and persuasive, this is an exploration into what exactly is the relationship of male and female as dictated by the world of nature, the supreme arbiter of our actions and instincts.

It is now available both as an ebook and in print form, through Amazon, CreateSpace and Barnes and Noble

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Postcards from around the globe

- the illustrated poetry of David Stuart Ryan

 

The third volume of The Seven Worlds.

Join the poet on his journey to the East and experience the searing intense encounters along the way as the overland trip extends right across Asia to China, Nepal, India and Thailand.

Over 100 original colour illustrations by the poet bring all this wealth of experience incredibly and indelibly alive as the mystery of the East wafts across the pages and the pictures. A real art and poetry lover's collector item.

It is now available both as an ebook and in print form, through Amazon, CreateSpace and Barnes and Noble

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New new world. The land of Australia and the islands of Fiji

Book Four of The Seven Worlds

- the illustrated poetry of David Stuart Ryan

 

Over 100 original poems and illustrations explore the very nature of Australia, with its haunting wide open spaces, pure colours and magical wildlife. This is a complete immersion in the Australian experience by a poet whose roots there go back to the pioneering 1870s.

You will get a very different take on the land and its peoples once you have journeyed with the poet back into the dreamtime of an ancient yet very new continent. Revealed here in all its stark beauty.

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Available in print and ebook formats. Preview of selected poems

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Home - and a journey to the USA

Book Five of The Seven Worlds

- the illustrated poetry of David Stuart Ryan

 

The fifth volume of The Seven Worlds features more than 100 original full color illustrations to accompany the poems that explore what it means to return to your home and roots after a long time away.

The exploration is interrupted by a visit to the USA where David Stuart Ryan describes the impact of the vast continent on its settlers, it is a country still being created he reports back. Glorious color pictures evoke the American experience.

The volume continues by digging ever further back into memory, and the nourishing bedrock upon which we build our lives and ever seek to fully understand.

Generations come and go, life continues, the pictures remind us of all the many layers to existence until finally a sense of being at home in the world is achieved. If only briefly.

Available in both print and ebook formats.

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Introduction to the poetry of David Stuart Ryan.

Grand Festival of the Wind Sun Moon Stars and Ocean at Colva Beach

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