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Robert Ward has always enjoyed travelling, especially on foot. When he discovered the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago in Spain, he felt compelled to walk and experience this historic road. From his first journey along the Camino de Santiago, Ward fell in love with the pace, landscape, history, art, and romance of this old pilgrimage path. Above all, however, Ward fell in love with the people of the Camino—both the welcoming Spaniards and the pilgrims who come from all over the world to find out what it means to travel five hundred miles, one step at a time. In All the Good Pilgrims, Ward returns to Spain to walk the Camino for the fifth time. He thinks he knows what he’s getting into but, as his many Camino journeys have taught him, the Camino never runs out of surprises. Each day brings new lessons, friendships, questions, memories, gifts and challenges, reminding Ward that it isn’t the pilgrim who walks the Camino—it’s the Camino that walks the pilgrim. An engaging travel narrative, All the Good Pilgrims is a personal and insightful tour of the Camino de Santiago, as Ward takes readers on a secular pilgrimage in which he reflects on his past journeys and contemplates the mysterious and enduring allure of this ancient and historic road.
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Robert Ward is the author of "Virgin Trails: A Secular Pilgrimage," an agnostic's guide to the worship of the Virgin Mary. His writing has appeared in newspapers and journels including the Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, andQueen's Quarterly. He has lived in Japan, traveled widely in Europe and Asia, and can muddle along in several languages. When he isn't on pilgrimage, he lives quietly in Toronto with his wife, Michiko.
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An astute listener captures the heartbeat of the Camino de Santiago,
By Timecheck "backpack45.com - Camino Chronicle... (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All the Good Pilgrims: Tales of the Camino de Santiago (Paperback)
By his own words, a walker, but secular, agnostic, not particularly spiritual, travel writer Robert Ward is not one who you would expect to do a sympathetic rendering of the experience of modern day walkers on this 1000 year old pilgrimage trail. Nevertheless, he has done exactly that.
For a number of years the author resisted the lure of the Camino, feeling spiritually unqualified, but in 1999 walked from St. Jean to Santiago and found that as in times past, sinners, heretics and non-believers were welcome as well as the faithful. In 2000 he walked again, twice. A ten day segment, and then again from St. Jean to Santiago. This time gathering information for Virgin Trails, a book following depictions of the Virgin Mary. In 2003 he returned for a two-week walk, and in 2005 he returned again to walk the entire route from St. Jean, this time taking notes for All the Good Pilgrims. The main thrust of All the Good Pilgrims is the 2005 journey, and the people the author meets, but a secondary thread is the search for people and places from earlier trips. The author clearly has a good command of French and Spanish, as well as English, so he talks to everyone, the bartenders, the pilgrims, the people in the street, and they all have something to say. There is a humanity in the way people are depicted. It is easy to caricature other travelers, particularly if you don't understand their language and are never going to see them again. The people in All the Good Pilgrims come across as real people, sometimes flawed, sometimes funny, but treated with respect. In most Camino books, I get caught up in the author's experiences as they overcome the various obstacles the Camino puts up. The feeling is a little different in this book. The other walkers the author meets during his walk keep popping up. Some are never seen again, but I am following all those pilgrims across Spain, not just the author. This is a good read. Normally when I finish a good book, it goes on my wife's in pile. This time she wanted it when I finished, but I went back to page one and read it again.
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This review is from: All the Good Pilgrims: Tales of the Camino de Santiago (Paperback)
This was an excellent book, very insightful. I think the previous review sums it up eloquently! I enjoyed this book so much I've ordered Virgin Trails.
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An astute listener captures the heartbeat of the Camino de Santiago,
By Timecheck "backpack45.com - Camino Chronicle... - Published on Amazon.com
By his own words, a walker, but secular, agnostic, not particularly spiritual, travel writer Robert Ward is not one who you would expect to do a sympathetic rendering of the experience of modern day walkers on this 1000 year old pilgrimage trail. Nevertheless, he has done exactly that.
For a number of years the author resisted the lure of the Camino, feeling spiritually unqualified, but in 1999 walked from St. Jean to Santiago and found that as in times past, sinners, heretics and non-believers were welcome as well as the faithful. In 2000 he walked again, twice. A ten day segment, and then again from St. Jean to Santiago. This time gathering information for Virgin Trails, a book following depictions of the Virgin Mary. In 2003 he returned for a two-week walk, and in 2005 he returned again to walk the entire route from St. Jean, this time taking notes for All the Good Pilgrims. The main thrust of All the Good Pilgrims is the 2005 journey, and the people the author meets, but a secondary thread is the search for people and places from earlier trips. The author clearly has a good command of French and Spanish, as well as English, so he talks to everyone, the bartenders, the pilgrims, the people in the street, and they all have something to say. There is a humanity in the way people are depicted. It is easy to caricature other travelers, particularly if you don't understand their language and are never going to see them again. The people in All the Good Pilgrims come across as real people, sometimes flawed, sometimes funny, but treated with respect. In most Camino books, I get caught up in the author's experiences as they overcome the various obstacles the Camino puts up. The feeling is a little different in this book. The other walkers the author meets during his walk keep popping up. Some are never seen again, but I am following all those pilgrims across Spain, not just the author. This is a good read. Normally when I finish a good book, it goes on my wife's in pile. This time she wanted it when I finished, but I went back to page one and read it again. |
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