Hermits around the web – Hermitary
news, sites, and pages of interest about hermits and solitude
Independent filmmaker (US) Stephen Riehl of Maboroshi Productions has begun development on a documentary film titled The Stylite: A Matter of Faith, about a monk who is hoping to live atop Katskhi Pillar as a stylite in the Republic of Georgia’s Imereti region. A Hermitary blog entry refers to the monk.
URLs: http://www.thestylite.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Stylite-a-matter-of-faith/109361395794331 
In National Geographic magazine’s February 2008 issue is a wonderful essay titled “On the Poet’s Trail” — on Japan’s pre-eminent 17th-century hermit-wanderer, Basho. Text by American novelist Howard Norman; includes a photo gallery, interactive travelog (map)ue, and notes by photographer Michael Yamashita.
URL: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/bashos-trail/howard-norman-text/1