Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
by:
Daniel Klein (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410455659 (1410455653)
Publish date: March 18th 2013
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 317
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Philosophy,
Greece,
Spirituality
I bought this book because recent reading has me suspecting that Epicurus has been rather maligned over the centuries and I wanted to learn more about what his philosophical school was really about. But I didn't want to find out via a dry, academic tome and I wanted to avoid anything that would hur...
Daniel Klein is getting on in years. He’s come to that time in life when you are very, very clear about what’s small stuff and what’s not. He decides to spend some time on a Greek island thinking a little and writing a little about what should matter to us in our last years. And here is this little ...