The Greatest Escape
Balcom, David Oh, if there were someone to tell us the history of that subtle feeling called solitude, " mused the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In The Greatest Escape, David Balcom answers that call, showing that solitude is an inevitable--yet vital and exciting--facet of our existence with a long, tumultuous past. He travels back in time to trace the spirit flights of shamans, wanders in the mountains of China, listening to the poetry of recluse schola...