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Item Details
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ROAD TO SANTIAGO
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| By: |
Kathryn Harrison |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0792237455 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780792237457 |
| Publisher: |
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
20 October, 2003 |
| Series: |
National Geographic Directions S. |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
The author of "The Kiss" offers a deeply personal and revealing chronicle of her two-hundred-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, providing insightful portraits of her fellow pilgrims, striking descriptions of sties and landmarks along the way, and reflections on redemption. |
| Synopsis: |
Displaying her "real talent for conjuring far-flung times and places," Kathryn Harrison tells the mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In the spring of 1999, Kathryn Harrison set out to walk the centuries-old pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. "Not a vacation, " she calls it, "but a time out of time." With a heavy pack, no hotel reservations, and little Spanish, she wanted an experience that would be both physically and psychically demanding. No pain, no gain, she thought, and she had some important things to contemplate. But the pilgrimroadwas spattered with violets and punctuated by medieval churches and alpine views, and, despite the exhaustion, aching knees, and brutal sun, she was unexpectedly flooded with joy and gratitude for life's gifts. "Why do I like thisroad?" she writes. "Why do I love it? What can be the comfort of understanding my footprint as just one among the millions? ... While I'm walking I feel myself alive, feel my small life burning brightly." Throughout this deeply personal and revealing memoir of her journey, first made alone and later in the company of her daughter, Harrison blends striking images of the route and her fellow pilgrims with reflections on the redemptive power of pilgrimages, mortality, family, the nature of endurance, the past and future, the mystery of friendship. TheRoadtoSantiagois an exquisitely written, courageous, and irresistible portrait of a personal pilgrimage in search of a broader understanding of life and self." |
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US |
| Imprint: |
National Geographic Books |
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Non-returnable |
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