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001 3305859
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008 010802s2002 dcua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001047242
020 $a1582431213 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)506201990
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100 1 $aColegate, Isabel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50038460
245 12 $aA pelican in the wilderness :$bhermits and solitaries /$cby Isabel Colegate.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bCounterpoint,$c2002.
263 $a0204
300 $axix, 284 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-274) and index.
520 1 $a"The desire for solitude is as old as human society, its pursuit as various as the individual temperament. From Lao Tsu and the Buddha, St Antony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin and Thomas Merton, certain gifted persons, each in his own way, 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.
520 8 $aOthers, 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 fantasy." "In this book, Isabel Colegate gives us the lives of the solitaries - male and female, mediaeval and modern, divinely inspired and merely eccentric."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHermits.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85060417
650 0 $aSolitude.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124673
852 00 $bbar$hBJ1499.S65$iC65 2002