Having finished reading David Gordon White’s The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography (2014), I am eager to find more books by Mircea Eliade. His understanding of yoga’s roots in shamanism is uppermost in my mind at present. Sadly, White misses the connection entirely. As all my books are in Motovun, where I have several books by Eliade, most of which are about shamanism, today I went to the only remaining bookstore with foreign books in the center of Zagreb, where I had found White’s book only a short while ago. In particular, I searched for Eliade’s Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (1958). I was told that they used to have it, but that it was sold. The way the person behind the counter sounded, that was many years ago. And so I ordered it from Amazon as soon as returned to my beloved’s apartment. As it turns out, the introduction to the edition I ordered was written by no-one else but White. At any rate, the book will be with me by the end of this month. Phew! In praise of Amazon, I wonder why bookstores still exist.