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The hermits of Big Sur / Paula Huston ; with a foreword by Pico Iyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huston, Paula, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Camaldoli Hermitage (Big Sur, Calif.).
- Hermits--California--Big Sur.
- Hermits.
- Monastic and religious life--California--Big Sur.
- Monastic and religious life.
- California--Big Sur.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Between World War II and Vatican II, an eleventh-century order of contemplative monks in the Apennines were urged by Thomas Merton to found a daughter house on the rugged coast of California. A brilliant but world-weary ex-Jesuit, who had recently withdrawn from a high-intensity public life to go into reclusion at the ancient Sacro Eremo of Camaldoli, was tapped for the job. Based on notes kept for over sixty years by an early American novice at New Camaldoli Hermitage, The Hermits of Big Sur tells the compelling story of what unfolds within this small and idealistic community when medievalism must finally come to terms with modernism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Huston, Paula. Hermits of Big Sur
- ISBN:
- 9780814685303
- 0814685307
- Publisher Number:
- 40030786104
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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