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Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back - with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet. The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a difficult pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Nobel Prize–winning author explores his homeland in “this monumental work, a literary hybrid” of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue (Publishers Weekly).
In 1979, José Saramago decided to write a book called Journey to Portugal—and dedicated himself to obtaining the fullest meaning of his title. More than merely journeying in or through his native...
In 1979, José Saramago decided to write a book called Journey to Portugal—and dedicated himself to obtaining the fullest meaning of his title. More than merely journeying in or through his native...
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Globe Trekker Megan McCormick travels to Barcelona in the Spanish region of Catalunya and discovers a culture that prides itself on being different. With its sun kissed beaches and Gothic palaces, Barcelona is an Olympian city worthy of the gods and the modernist capital of the world where some of the greatest artists on earth found their fame.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Includes all 8 half-hour Rick Steves' Europe TV shows on Spain, airing from 2000 to 2012. The shows included are: Barcelona and Catalunya; Basque Country; Northern Spain and the Camino de Santiago; The Majesty of Madrid; Highlights of Castille: Toledo and Salamanca; Sevilla; Granada, Cordoba and Spain's Costa del Sol; and Andaluca, ̕Gibraltar and Tangier.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Apostle St. James. Today, the system of trails and roads that made up the old pilgrimage route is the most popular long-distance trail in Europe, winding from the heights of the Pyrenees to the gently rolling fields and woods of Galicia. Hundreds of thousands...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom.
Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration of the sites that people believe God once touched: the strange fortress said to contain the real secret Adam learned when he bit into the apple, the sites...
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Language
English
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Description
Part adventure story, part cultural history, Paris to the Pyrenees explores the phenomenon of pilgrimage along the age-old way of Saint James Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques, then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72 days on Roman roads and pilgrimage paths-a 1,100-year-old...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
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...
19) Spain
Series
Publisher
Pilot Publications
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Two travelers take the viewer beyond the usual tourist spots in Spain.
