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Among the Pilgrims: Journeys to Santiago De Compostela [Paperback]

Mary Victoria Wallis (Author)

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  • Paperback: 431 pages
  • Publisher: Trafford (January 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1412007968
  • ISBN-13: 978-1412007962
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 544 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,679,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Weaves accounts of bicycle and walking pilgramages to Santiago de Compostela together with the thousand-year old history of the Camino de Santiago. Compares modern pilgrimage with medieval religious traditions.

About the Author

Mary Victoria Wallis has a PhD in English Literature, and a Master of Health Science. She has been a university professor and teacher for nurses, medical students, literature students, and health care professionals, and has conducted workshops on communication and spirituality in the care of the sick and dying. Nowadays, she earns her daily bread in Hospice and Palliative Care, where she combines her interest in the scientific and clinical with an inquiry into experiences of people at the far end of their lives. She maintains a keen interest in English literature, medieval European culture, and the spiritual traditions of both East and the West. She is a longtime practitioner of Buddhist meditation. Mary is an avid canoeist, touring and backcountry cyclist, sea kayaker and hiker. She has travelled throughout Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, and has lived and worked in Nigeria and Uruguay. She is Canadian and lives as a "resident alien" - something akin to a pilgrim - in the United States.
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The pilgrimage trail known since the Middle Ages as El Camino de Santiago makes a shallow loop across northern Spain like the chipped edge of an antique dish. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars Well researched and engaging read, Oct 16 2009
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This review is from: Among the Pilgrims: Journeys to Santiago De Compostela (Paperback)
Mary Wallis has a great chronicle of her two pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago in the late 1990's. It's both her background as a medievalist and her skill at description that make her book a winner. What sets her apart is that Wallis has read widely on the Camino de Santiago in English, Spanish and Latin and she brings a depth of historical understanding that is missing in many camino books. I'd quibble with her viewpoint of the transition from Romanesque to Gothic -- surely it's the technological innovative that drives the social and spiritual and not vice versa -- but she's mastered the material and offers it with true affection for the Camino many of us have come to love.

While she gives a lot of time to her problems with Christian faith, her Buddhist background substitutes in an interesting way and provides spiritual depth to her narrative. Her first Camino by bike with her husband turned into a second, solitary Camino the following year. She clearly was hooked and spends much of the book putting words to the spirituality of the 500-mile walk.

This is a good read, particularly for people open to Buddhist spirituality or deeply interested in Medieval Spanish history.
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