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 Gandhi * Peter Matthiessen * William Least Heat Moon * John Muir * Robert Pirsig * Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton * Henry David Thoreau * Father Zossima * and others