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

You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. 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.

Philip Harnden

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5 x 7¼, 144 pp | 978-1-59473-181-5

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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

“‘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

“Should be read by anyone who has ever wondered how to pack a lighter suitcase, de-clutter personal space or move through the world less encumbered by worldly goods.”

Cape Cod Times

“Intriguing.”

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