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

    By Philip Harnden

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    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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJan 6, 2011
    ISBN9781594733628
    Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bashō, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others
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    Philip 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. 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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