Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bashō, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others
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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Book details
- Author
- Philip Harnden
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Spiritual
Self-Help › Motivational & Inspirational
Self-Help › Personal Growth › Happiness - Topics
- simple living · mindfulness · inspirational vignettes · spiritual journeys · minimalism · travel and exploration · philosophical reflections · happiness
- ISBN-13
- 9781594731815 (Paperback)9781893361768 (Hardcover)
About the author
PHILIP HARNDEN is a Quaker writer and the author of Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bashō, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others.
Harnden served as publisher of The Other Side, a magazine of spirituality and social action, for approximately twelve years, and worked as a correspondent for Religion News Service and a commentator on North Country Public Radio.
When he’s not writing, Harnden engages with subjects ranging from the land rights of Native Americans to the spiritual life of artist Fritz Eichenberg. This breadth of concern with place, faith, and human action runs through his writing.
Philip lives in northern New York State, not far from the Canadian border.