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The Solace of Fierce Landsapes explores the attraction of wild terrain in the Christian mystical tradition, asking why forbidding desert and mountain landscapes serve so well in speaking to people of their limits. Belden Lane interweaves this historical account of desert spirituality with intensely personal accounts of his own journeys through both actual and spiritual deserts.

In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother’s long struggle with Alzheimer’s and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa–a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language–Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. \