California photographs, (1968).

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California photographs, (1968).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191918361

The photographs in this series, which were taken by Thomas Merton during a trip to California, depict the seashore, countryside, and other sites which took his interest.

148 photographs.

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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...