ARGONAUT BOOKS

The World Within blends a moving personal account with history, biography and travel, offering a profound exploration of the impulse to withdraw. It asks why retreat still enchants people to this day and hints at how each one of us can find a sanctuary of our own.  Reviews 'Stagg writes well and brightly about all he encounters: church architecture, monastic history, the people?, landscapes and weather?, and his own hesitancies. He is candid and flexible in his thinking. As to his three chosen figures, he is generous in his dealings with them, questing and explicating, never...Read More