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Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice
Category: Books > Spirituality > Spirituality Books
Author/Artist: BELDEN LANE
ISBN / ID: 9780199927814
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Binding: HARDBACK
Price: AU$39.95
  
Description: Carrying only basic camping equipment, 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 Hammarskjold, and Thomas Merton, and as he walks, he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters - Bell Mountain Wilderness with Soren Kierkegaard, Moonshine Hollow with Thich Nhat Hanh - demonstrating how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior landscape, and how the saints' writings reveal the divine in nature.

In this intimate and down-to-earth narrative, backpacking is shown to be a spiritual practice that allows the discovery of God amidst the beauty and unexpected terrors of nature. An enchanting narrative for Christians of all denominations, Backpacking with the Saints explores how solitude, simplicity, and mindfulness are illuminated and encouraged by the discipline of backcountry wandering, and of how the wilderness itself becomes a way of knowing - an ecology of the soul.
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