Road Of Stars To Santiago / Edward F. Stanton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanton, Edward F., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Spain--Santiago de Compostela.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Santiago de Compostela (Spain)--Description and travel.

Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Spain, Northern--Description and travel.

Spain, Northern.

Stanton, Edward F., 1942---Travel--Spain, Northern.

Stanton, Edward F.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the tradition of Colin Fletcher's The Man Who Walked Through Time and William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, Edward F. Stanton has written a quietly beautiful and engrossing account of his own pilgrimage. Road of Stars to Santiago is a personal story of his journey along what has been called ""the premier cultural route of Europe."" ""I undertook a five-hundred-mile walk along the ancient Camino de Santiago, from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostella in northwest Spain, the supposed burial site of the apostle St. James the Elder, and beyond to Finisterre, Land's End on the Atl

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE; 1 Day of St. James; 2 Roncesvalles; 3 Sacred and Profane; 4 Bread, Meerschaum and Pamplona; 5 Travels with Alberto and Yako; 6 Fiesta, the Black Santiago, Eunate; 7 Pilgrimage and Picaresque; 8 La Rioja; 9 Of Saints, Cocks and Hens; 10 St. Dominic of the Causeway to St. John of the Nettles; 11 Through Burgos; PART TWO; 12 Water; 13 Exhibits of Life and Death; 14 Desert of the Lions; 15 Through León; 16 The Pass; 17 Paradise and Hell; PART THREE; 18 Galicia

19 Samos, Sarria and a Cup of Milk20 On the Road; 21 Detours, Lavacolla, Mountjoy; 22 In the Camel's Stomach; 23 The End of the World; Other Readings; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-197).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813157009

0813157005

OCLC:

624336416