Hermits around the web – Hermitary
news, sites, and pages of interest about hermits and solitude
This news item from Siberia recalls the book Lost in the Taiga by Vassily Peskov, reviewed in Hermitary here in 2002, although no mention of the book is included in the news article. Since such news items tend to disappear from the web, it is produced in full here: NOVOSIBIRSK, October 24 (RIA Novosti) – …
Wilderness survival skills have always struck the American imagination. In recent times, authentically skilled figures like Appalachian wilderness expert Eustace Conway are rare, and he is not reluctant to share his story and his vision with a critical public. But taking advantage of American fascination with wilderness heroes was 43 year old Joseph Knowles, who …
The German-Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has created the “Field Chapel” dedicated to Brother Klaus or Nicholaus of Flue, the early modern Swiss hermit and visionary. An article from the Guardian entitled “Solitary Refinement” by Jonathan Glancey describes the chapel: The apparently simple form of Zumthor’s building proves to be far richer than it first appears. …
This news item from Reuters and variously broadcast in web media is entitled “Colombian hermit finds paradise on Lebanon trail.” The article describes a Colombian monk and hermit, Dario Escobar, now residing in a cave in the Qadisha Valley in Lebanon. The article is chiefly about the fledgling effort to create the Lebanon Mountain Trail …
Two more films about hermits: 1. The Fort Fisher Hermit: The Life and Death of Robert E. Harrill is a documentary film. The blurb explains that Harrill “spent 17 years under the stars and scrub oaks of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Surviving off the land and the contributions from thousands of visitors, he became one …