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Run to the Mountain
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the journals are the last major piece of writing to... more...
A Search for Solitude
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99The third volume of Thomas Merton's journals chronicles Merton's attempts to reconcile his desire for solitude and contemplation with the demands of his new-found celebrity status within the strictures of conventional monastic life. more...
The Road to Joy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1989; US$ 7.99The second volume of Thomas Merton's letters is devoted to his correspondence with friends -- relatives and family friends, longtime friends, special friends, young people he regarded as new friends, and circular letters addressed to groups of friends. They range from 1931, ten years before he became a monk, to 1968, the year in which he died at... more...
Finding Happiness
Orion 2008; US$ 20.83Abbot Christopher Jamison from hit TV series THE MONASTERY, turns his attention to the eternal questions of how to be happy, and why we believe it is so important. more...
Tom Merton
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 37.00Thomas Merton did not choose to keep his most personal writing secret. He provided for his diaries to be released 25 years after his death. This biography combines the details of those diaries with the more widely known and published circumstances of his life. This is the biography that tells, for the first time, of Thomas Merton as he wanted us to... more...
An Infinity of Little Hours
PublicAffairs 2007; US$ 13.95This riveting chronicle of an unimaginably difficult spiritual journey offers an unprecedented look inside a secretive world unchanged since medieval times more...
Hermit's Cookbook
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 23.95The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and passionate abandonment of the ordinary comforts of life, the most striking... more...
The Medieval Monastery
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 7.95Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of England's medieval heritage. Simultaneously places of prayer and spirituality, power and charity, learning and invention, illusion and superstition, they survive today as haunting ruins, great houses and as some of our most important cathedrals and churches. This book examines the growth... more...
Scottish Monastic Landscapes
The History Press 2006; US$ 30.61This is an important companion volume to James Bond's award-winning Monastic Landcapes, which covers England and Wales more...
In the Spirit of Happiness
Little, Brown and Company 2000; US$ 10.99The bestselling authors of "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend" show how their strong connections with dogs and the natural world stem from the principles of monastic life. 14 line drawings. more...









