Not many books in the world are genuine "must reads" but surely Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of them*. How could it be that I bought this book for two dollars from a throw-out table at my local shopping centre? How is that none of my teachers, lecturers, pastors or mentors has ever recommended it to me? Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who died in 1997 at the age of 92. He is famous as the founder and leading light of the psychiatric technique he called "logotherapy", and as a high profile holocaust survivor. He was interred in Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic in 1942 with his wife and extended family, transferred to Auschwitz in late 1944 and finished the war in a camp affiliated with Dachau. Man's Search for Meaning is a collection of three brief essays. The first and longest, Experiences in a Concentration Camp, describes his time in Auschwitz and Dachau as a means of illustrating his psychological ideas an
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson