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Journeys of Simplicity
Philip . Ed(S): Harnden
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Description for Journeys of Simplicity
Paperback. Editor(s): Harnden, Philip. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 194.
You are invited to consider a more graceful way of travelling through life. With arresting clarity, this slim spiritual companion offers vignettes of forty travellers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them - from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death. What Thoreau took to Walden Pond. What Thomas Merton packed for his final trip to Asia. What Annie Dillard keeps in her writing tent. What Edward Abbey and a friend packed (and forgot to pack) for a float trip down the Colorado River. What an impoverished cook served M. F. K. Fisher ... Read more
You are invited to consider a more graceful way of travelling through life. With arresting clarity, this slim spiritual companion offers vignettes of forty travellers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them - from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death. What Thoreau took to Walden Pond. What Thomas Merton packed for his final trip to Asia. What Annie Dillard keeps in her writing tent. What Edward Abbey and a friend packed (and forgot to pack) for a float trip down the Colorado River. What an impoverished cook served M. F. K. Fisher ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jewish Lights Publishing United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Woodstock, United States
ISBN
9781594731815
SKU
V9781594731815
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99-15
About Philip . Ed(S): Harnden
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
Reviews for Journeys of Simplicity
"'How much should I carry with me?' is the quintessential question for any journey, especially the journey of life. Herein you’ll find sage, sly, wonderfully subversive advice." —Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature