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Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Basho, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others

Philip Harnden

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing
  • Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2003
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.62in - 5.28in - 0.61in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9781893361768
  • Categories: Motivational & InspirationalSpiritualPersonal Growth - Happiness

About the Author

Harnden, Philip: -

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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Praise for this book

"'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