Full name: Hermits: The Insights of Solitude

Author: Peter France Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780312155469 0312155468

In the tradition of Karen Armstrong's A History of God and Kathleen Norris' Cloistered Walk comes a magisterial history of hermits--from the Greek cynics to the Desert Fathers to more modern seekers such as Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and the American poet Robert Lax.