A Place of Healing for the Soul: Patmos (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802140609)

The tiny, arid Greek island of Patmos is one of the most sacred places in the Christian world, and a place of bewitching power, where people come for a brief summer visit and end up returning, year after year, for the rest of their lives. In A Place of Healing for the Soul, BBC commentator Peter France -- who arrived on the island a hardened skeptic -- tells how he came to change his life perspective. Learning from the island's gregarious inhabitants and its religious eccentrics-hermits, ascetics, monks, and nuns -- he discovered the pleasure and security of living simply and doing without, in a timeless realm where history, myth, and spirituality are endlessly alive.

Author: Peter France
ISBN-10: 0802140602
ISBN-13: 9780802140609
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2003
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.54w x 0.61d