Journeys of Simplicity

Traveling Light With Thomas Merton, Basho, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others

Plot

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