You are invited to consider a more graceful way of travelling through life. With arresting clarity, this slim spiritual companion offers vignettes of forty travellers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them: from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death such as - What Thoreau took to Walden Pond; What Thomas Merton packed for his final trip to Asia; What Annie Dillard keeps in her writing tent; What Edward Abbey and a friend packed (and forgot to pack) for a float trip down the Colorado River; What an impoverished cook served M. F. K. Fisher for dinner; and, Gandhi’s possessions at the time of his death. These vignettes create a spare poetry, a meditation on unencumbered living. In its own quiet way, this book ponders the light by which we travel, the light that guides our way - our travelling light. Not a ‘simple living’ book, reciting tips for how to pinch pennies or get rid of clutter, but a book to be savoured slowly, to remind us what is truly essential.