A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses by Colegate, Isabel

A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781582435916)

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A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses by Colegate, Isabel

A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses

$16.95
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses by Colegate, Isabel

A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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From Lao-tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin, and up to the present day, certain gifted persons have shown a vocation for living alone and apart, finding in simplicity and attention to nature a spiritual space to be explored and rejoiced in. Others, retreating from the world in scorn or cut off from it by scandal, have found that solitude is Hell, a pit of melancholy and morbid fancy. In this, her first work of nonfiction, novelist Isabel Colegate gives us the lives of the solitaries -- male and female, medieval and modern, divinely inspired and patently fraudulent. But this is no mere gallery of saints and sinners, poets and misanthropes. It is also a reevaluation of solitude for our times, and a reminder that it is in solitude that the soul meets itself, refreshes itself, and from there goes out to join the communal dance.

Author: Isabel Colegate
ISBN-10: 158243591X
ISBN-13: 9781582435916
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.08w x 0.83d
By Isabel Colegate
By Isabel Colegate
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Isabel Colegate was born in London and has long lived near Bath. She is the author of fourteen books, including, The Shooting Party and, most recently, the acclaimed novel Winter Journey.

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