A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses
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ISBN: 0006531881 / Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, January 2003
A man that studies Happiness must sit alone like a Sparrow upon the House Top, and like a Pelican in...
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A man that studies Happiness must sit alone like a Sparrow upon the House Top, and like a Pelican in the Wilderness' -- Thomas Traherne. Celebrated novelist Isabel Colegate explores the lives and works of those who've followed the call of solitude, from Lao Tzu and the Desert Fathers to Wordsworth and Thoreau.
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