Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Basho, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others
Language: English
Published by Jewish Lights Publishing, 2007
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You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity,Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with themfrom place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.
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- Title
- Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Basho, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others
- Author
- Philip Harnden
- Publisher
- Jewish Lights Publishing
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594731810
- ISBN 13
- 9781594731815
Where do our journeys take us?
What do we leave behind?
What do we carry with us?
How do we find our way?
You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them—from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.
Edward Abbey • Nellie Bly • Raymond Carver • Dorothy Day • Marcel Duchamp • Dolores Garcia • Emma "Grandma" Gatewood • Mohandas Gandhi • Peter Matthiessen • William Least Heat Moon • John Muir • Robert Pirsig • Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton • Henry David Thoreau • Father Zossima • and others
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About the Author
Philip Harnden was the publisher of The Other Side, a magazine of spirituality and social action, for a dozen years. A Quaker, he has written on subjects as diverse as the land rights of Native Americans and the spiritual life of Fritz Eichenberg. A former correspondent for Religion News Service, Harnden has also been a commentator on North Country Public Radio. He lives in northern New York State, not far from the Canadian border.
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