A Pilgrim In Spain
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A Pilgrim In Spain
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Author : Christopher Howse
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-06-16
A Pilgrim In Spain written by Christopher Howse and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-16 with Religion categories.
Christopher Howse has spent more than two decades exploring Spain. For him, its centuries-old cathedrals, monasteries and shrines demand pilgrimage more than tourism. In a journey across the Castilian interior he follows in the footsteps of El Cid and St Dominic, examines St Teresa's arm, samples the legacy of the Cardinal who invaded Africa, finds the spot where St John of the Cross escaped from prison, and discovers in a mountain shrine the world's largest remnant of the True Cross. He comes across a slaughterhouse dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and a cock and hen living in a cathedral. He hears of uncivil war in Europe's most civilised square and enjoys the smells, heat, food, noise, prayers, tears, flies, smoke, violence and laughter of an ancient culture in its last years. With an eye for the humorous and strange, he spends time in Soria and Silos, Yuste and Segovia, before turning from the pilgrim destination of Santiago de Compostela to the valleys of Extremadura, where the Virgin of Guadalupe took the Spanish to an unknown world.
A Pilgrim In Spain
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Author : Aubrey Fitz Gerald Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
A Pilgrim In Spain written by Aubrey Fitz Gerald Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Spain categories.
The Wayward Pilgrim
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Author : William Elihu Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-03-12
The Wayward Pilgrim written by William Elihu Palmer and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Travel categories.
The Wayward Pilgrim is an account of the desultory pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain made by a professor of Spanish on Sabbatical leave from the Salisbury University in Maryland. The professor undertakes the pilgrimage not as a religious experience but as an attempt to better understand the history and culture of Spain. In the book, he combines an account of the Medieval pilgrimage with the diversions often taken by the modem pilgrim. In the end, the professor comes to realize the hardships, the endurance and the hardy and devote spirit of the true pilgrim. In addition to the account of the pilgrimage, the book also contains vignettes of great moments and great historical figures that changed the world forever.
A Pilgrim In Winter
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Author : William Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-13
A Pilgrim In Winter written by William Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-13 with categories.
In this uproariously hilarious and brutally honest depiction of what modern pilgrims experience on the Camino de Santiago, Will Butler treks through 500 miles of the harsh winter in northern Spain to the fabled Santiago de Compostela. Along the way, he befriends a foul-mouthed Venetian Glassmaker, a love sick organ player, and briefly marries a stunningly attractive surfer from South Korea. Filled with a kaleidoscopic assortment of colorful pilgrims and Spanish locals, A Pilgrim in Winter is the perfect read for those pilgrims who have walked The Way of St. James, and for the hundreds of thousands more who wish to attempt it.
Shadow Of A Pilgrim
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Author : Thomas F. Connell (Travel writer)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Shadow Of A Pilgrim written by Thomas F. Connell (Travel writer) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Camino Francés (Spain) categories.
"What happens when a classics-trained, half-a-century-lapsed Irish-American Catholic sets out to walk not one, but two Caminos, the thousand-year old pilgrimage routes that lead through a vast arc of European history and culture to culminate in the revered burial place of the Apostle St. James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain? This rich and unusual book, a day-to-day and densely-photographed account of one apostate pilgrim's journey, carries the reader through forests, farmers' fields and vineyards, mountains, ancient battle sites, and famous cities, first on the popular inland Camino Francés; and then along the wild, rugged coast of northern Spain on the Camino del Norte"--Back cover.
Pilgrim Stories
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Author : Nancy Louise Frey
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-12-30
Pilgrim Stories written by Nancy Louise Frey and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-30 with Religion categories.
Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. These modern-day pilgrims and the role of the pilgrimage in their lives are the subject of Nancy Louise Frey's fascinating book. Unlike the religiously-oriented pilgrims who visit Marian shrines such as Lourdes, the modern Road of St. James attracts an ecumenical mix of largely well-educated, urban middle-class participants. Eschewing comfortable methods of travel, they choose physically demanding journeys, some as long as four months, in order to experience nature, enjoy cultural and historical patrimony, renew faith, or cope with personal trauma. Frey's anthropological study focuses on the remarkable reanimation of the Road that has gained momentum since the 1980s. Her intensive fieldwork (including making the pilgrimage several times herself) provides a colorful portrayal of the pilgrimage while revealing a spectrum of hopes, discontents, and desires among its participants, many of whom feel estranged from society. The Camino's physical and mental journey offers them closer community, greater personal knowledge, and links to the past and to nature. But what happens when pilgrims return home? Exploring this crucial question Frey finds that pilgrims often reflect deeply on their lives and some make significant changes: an artistic voice is discovered, a marriage is ended, meaningful work is found. Other pilgrims repeat the pilgrimage or join a pilgrims' association to keep their connection to the Camino alive. And some only remain pilgrims while on the road. In all, Pilgrim Stories is an exceptional prism through which to understand the desires and dissatisfactions of contemporary Western life at the end of the millennium. "Feet are touched, discussed, massaged, [and] become signs of a journey well traveled: 'I did it all on foot!' . . . Pilgrims give feet a power and importance not recognized in daily life, as a causeway and direct channel to the road, the past, meaningful relations, nature, and the self."
Off The Road
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Author : Jack Hitt
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-03
Off The Road written by Jack Hitt and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with Religion categories.
Off the Road is a delightfully irreverent tour of the 500-mile pilgrimage route from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain--sights people believe God once touched. Harper's contributing editor Jack Hitt writes of the many colorful pilgrims he met along the way, in this offbeat journey through landscape and belief.
Following The Milky Way
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Author : Elyn Aviva
language : en
Publisher: Pilgrims Process, Inc.
Release Date : 2001
Following The Milky Way written by Elyn Aviva and has been published by Pilgrims Process, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Religion categories.
Following the Milky Way is the story of Elyn Aviva's 500-mile-long journey on foot on the Camino de Santiago. This 1000-year-old pilgrimage road stretches from the French Pyrenees across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, supposed tomb of St. James the Apostle. It is a journey that crosses the landscape of the soul as well as the mountains and mesetas of Spain.
The Camino Made Easy Reflections Of A Parador Pilgrim
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Author : Olivia Pittet
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-21
The Camino Made Easy Reflections Of A Parador Pilgrim written by Olivia Pittet and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-21 with Travel categories.
The Camino Made Easy: Reflections of a Parador Pilgrim relates three fascinating, culturally rich journeys on the Way of St. James, or the Camino, through Spain and Portugal to Santiago de Compostela. This personal, practical, and informational story testifies to the advantages of doing the Camino on a walking tour, while offering fresh perspectives on this long-distance medieval pilgrimage route for pilgrims and tourists alike. Olivia Pittet describes stunningly varied landscapes, including the Basque country, the Rioja wine region, and Celtic Galicia, as well as the World Heritage cities of Burgos, León, and Santiago, while gradually unfolding the Camino’s extraordinary cultural legacy and religious history, its present-day relevance, and its enduring appeal. She recalls what it was like to walk over one hundred miles on each journey, interweaving her Chaucer-style interactions with her fellow pilgrims, her love of landscape, and her special interest as a former medievalist in the Camino’s literature and legends. Olivia also interjects her own tale, tracing her unexpected spiritual journey from its initial stumbling blocks to a developing sense of pilgrimage the closer she came to Santiago, where there are as many answers waiting to be found as there are ways of walking the Camino. Beautifully written and deeply felt, this rich fusion of pilgrimage and personal narrative, landscape and cultural legacy, literature and legend vibrantly re-creates the Camino anew.
Spanish Steps
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Author : Tim Moore
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Spanish Steps written by Tim Moore and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Humor categories.
Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to. Being larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela. Over 500 miles of extreme weather and agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist's couch. 'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more substance and the jokes come thick and fast' Irish Times
