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On Unknown Seas To Unknown Shores
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789696969921
Publisher: Daastan
Published: Dec 4 2025
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the corridors of Harvard to the quiet evenings of Rawalpindi, On Unknown Seas to Unknown Shores is a poetic chronicle of a life marked by love, loss, reflection, and resilience. Spanning decades of personal trials, cultural contrasts, and spiritual longing, this anthology gathers the deeply human and unmistakably lyrical voice of Dr. Maqbool Elahi - a civil servant turned poet whose soul found expression in solitude and sorrow, in travel and transition.
Written across continents and over half a century, these verses blend Eastern mysticism with Western thought, classical form with raw emotion. From intimate elegies to philosophical reflections, each poem is an invitation to witness not only a poet's journey but the quiet universality of grief, wonder, memory, and meaning.
Painfully honest yet profoundly graceful, this collection is a timeless offering from a man who never sought literary fame, but whose words now echo across seas and shores.
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