Title: Tracking the serpent
First published: 1997
Description: These are the true-life adventures of a woman who ranges over four continents, endeavoring to go beyond the limits of ordinary life. Recovering from an accident, she goes to Glastonbury, where she finds energy portrayed in ancient earthworks as a snake coiled in concentric circles around a hill. To walk this spiral is called threading the maze, which means both to ascend and to go deep within.

This becomes a guiding emblem of her pilgrimages to sites of female spiritual and temporal power, from the Irish countryside to the Amazon jungle to the high mountain cultures of Nepal.
Subjects: Voyages and travels, Travel, Sacred space, Women poets, Women travelers, Beat generation, Women, united states, biography, Beats (persons)
People: Janine Pommy-Vega
LC classification: G465 .R656 1997