Pilgrim of the Sublime

About the Book

Taylor Moreland, son of a toughened and earth-bound farmer, longs to be a painter. In part to escape his father’s expectations, Taylor travels to the Equatorial Andes in search of some of the vistas represented in the paintings of Frederic Church, one of America’s greatest landscape artists. Traveling up the Amazon River and its tributaries, Moreland encounters bandits and hedonists, farmers and philosophers. Interspersed with this adventure is the story of Moreland’s love affair with Quinn Yarbrough, a Harvard Divinity School student on her own parallel quest for spiritual fulfillment. Ultimately, both set out to re-confirm their faith in Beauty.

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About the Author

Geoffrey Paul Carpenter currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A native of Washington State, the author spent his youth on a farm before going on to earn a Ph.D. in English. In a move to invigorate his own creative life, he turned down a tenure-track position and moved to South America to write. For research the author studied Frederic Church’s travel diaries, floated the Amazon, trekked through the jungles of Ecuador, and climbed the slopes of Cotopaxi. Like Church’s painting, Carpenter’s writing is, in part, a quest to understand the quality and dimensions of the human experience of beauty.