A Slow
Walk Across Spain: Walking the Camino de Santiago by Karen Manwaring. Paperback
book published by Watermelon Press 2010, 152 pages with monotone
photographs as well as some colour photographs, also has a large fold
out colour map at the back endpaper.
“This
is the book we wish we’d had when we were planning to walk our
first Camino.”
The
Camino de Santiago are a group of pilgrimage routes across Spain*,
ending at the apostle St. James the Great in the Cathedral
of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. It can take anywhere
between a few weeks and a number of months, depending on your level
of fitness, dedication, or how long you can trick your boss into
believing you have the flu and really can't make it in to work.
“Pilgrimage” and “St. James the Great” imply a religious
overtone to this walk, but from my sparse and recent knowledge of the
walk (ie. finding this book and looking up Camino de Santiago on the
interwebs), this doesn't necessarily have to be the reason for
walking the Camino. This is good news for people like myself who
don't revel in “Pilgrimage” or “St. James the Great” but do
sort of like the idea of a lengthy stroll across Spain... eating some
of the local delicacies... and drinking some of the local vino.
I don't
know anyone who has walked the Camino. I haven't walked it... but I
do like the idea.
This
book is currently (April 2015) out of print , which is a great thing
for a secondhand bookseller with a copy in hand. If you're going to
go all that way you want a guide book and here is a fairly recent
edition... actually, it's the only edition... but there is a new
edition coming out later this year, which is not very handy if you're
intending on going soonish... sooooo.....
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