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

Philip Harnden

SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2007 - Simplicity - 144 pages

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

What people are saying

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - TeresaLuneau - LibraryThing

I had no idea what a treasure I would be getting when I ordered this little book. It is so much more than a book about travel or simplifying one’s life or any of the other trendy topics on the best ...

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - jolyonpatten - LibraryThing

One of my desert island books. Lovely pieces from all over the place, including Thomas Merton and Raymond Carver as standouts (for me). Much to learn.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bashō, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard and Others; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Author: Philip Harnden
• Editor: Philip Harnden
• Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2007
• ISBN: 1594731810, 9781594731815
• Length: 144 pages