{"product_id":"a-pelican-in-the-wilderness-isabel-colegate-9781582435916","title":"A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isabel Colegate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 158243591X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781582435916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.08w x 0.83d","brand":"Isabel Colegate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995075969279,"sku":"9781582435916","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7809df87-1903-4553-b157-77fa1a61dccd.jpg?v=1683333765","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-pelican-in-the-wilderness-isabel-colegate-9781582435916","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}