# The Book

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- Book: [The Book](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-w-watts/the-book) ([The Book.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-w-watts/the-book.md))
- Authors: [Alan W. Watts](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-w-watts)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-300-4
- Pages: 176
- Published: 1989-08-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A revelatory primer on what it means to be human and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence, by “perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the...