The Desert Pilgrim
Subtitle: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: August 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780670031955
Subjects: Religion And Medicine; Spiritual biography; Patients; Comparative Religion; Swander, Mary; Biography / Autobiography; Spinal cord; Religion; Specific Groups - General; Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain); Mysticism; Biography & Autobiography / General; Christianity - Christian Life - General; Spiritual life; United States; Christian Life - General; Wounds and injuries; Biography
First sentence: I stand near the back of the nave of Father Sergei's church, my eyes fixed on the two nuns bowing and chanting at a lectern near the wall, their black veils drawn down to their eyebrows, the room dark and hazy from the incense rising up in the air.