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1 online resource (212 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Stanton, Edward F., 1942- -- Travel -- Spain, Northern
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| SUBJECT |
Stanton, Edward F., 1942- fast |
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Spain -- Santiago de Compostela.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
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TRAVEL -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Travel
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Santiago de Compostela (Spain) -- Description and travel
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Spain, Northern -- Description and travel
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Northern Spain
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Spain -- Santiago de Compostela
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813157009 |
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0813157005 |
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