Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

by Belden C. Lane

Book Overview

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen, Dag Hammarskj ld, and Thomas Merton, and as he walks, he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters--Bell Mountain Wilderness with S ren Kierkegaard,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199927812
• ISBN13: 9780199927814
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"