{"product_id":"the-book-of-hermits-a-history-of-hermits-from-antiquity-to-the-present-paperback","title":"The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Rodriguez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society - from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand mountains, depicted in art, literature, and lore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are their motives? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligious, spiritual, philosophical? Ethical, aesthetic, psychological? From a love of wilderness to a desire for the anonymity of life as a \"hermit in the city.\" From an inkling about the universe to a desire for radical simplicity. The historical hermits have reflected all of these. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Kahlil Gibran put it, \"A hermit renounces the world of fragments to enjoy the world wholly, without interruption.\" Hermits want, as Thoreau proposed of himself, to \"live deliberately.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin these pages, all these motives are explored, all the hermits considered: poets, sages, teachers, philosophers, the eccentric, pious, irreverent, sociable, reclusive, and wise - men and women. Hermits from India, China, Japan, and South Asia, huts, cells, and cabins, from the Middle East to Europe to the United States. The waning of hermits shifted the modern Western world to solitude. But the persistence of hermits, even today, is universal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 374\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978577641773,"sku":"9781736866504","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/SU5lbnlweWdOS1hoU1J4clh6VTlhUT09.webp?v=1775805929","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-book-of-hermits-a-history-of-hermits-from-antiquity-to-the-present-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}