Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-107).
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
On Traveling Light -- Thomas Merton -- John Muir -- Henry Beston -- Marcel Duchamp -- Annie Dillard -- Matsuo Bashåo -- Edward Abbey -- Father Zossima -- Dolores Garcia -- Henry David Thoreau -- The other Henry Thoreau -- Will Baker -- A Celtic woman -- Father Terence -- Werner Herzog -- Raymond Carver -- Sue -- Ephraim M'Ikiara -- Japheth M. Ryder -- Emma "Grandma" Gatewood -- Ishmael -- Fermina Daza -- Peter Matthiessen -- John Jack -- Eric Hoffer -- Bilbo Baggins -- Bill Wasovwich -- The Hermit of Tailaoshan -- Jesus of Nazareth -- George Washington Sears -- William Least Heat Moon -- Arctic Tern -- Frank O'Malley -- Kamo no Chåomei -- David and Goliath -- Dorothy Day -- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton -- Robert Pirsig -- Peace Pilgrim -- Nellie Bly -- Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi.