Where do our journeys take us? What do we leave behind? What do we carry with us? How do we find our way? You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them - from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death. Edward Abbey * Nellie Bly * Raymond Carver Dorothy Day * Marcel Duchamp * Dolores Garcia/Emma "Grandma" Gatewood * Mohandas GandhiPeter Matthiessen * William Least Heat MoonJohn Muir * Robert Pirsig * Sir Ernest Henry ShackletonHenry David Thoreau * Father Zossima * and others