El camino : walking to Santiago de Compostela
El Camino (Spanish for "the way") is a day-by-day account of a modern American pilgrim's solitary walk from St. Jean Pied de Port in France, across the Pyrenees and northern Spain, to Santiago de Compostela, believed since medieval times to be the burial place of Saint James. During thirty-two days in 1993, Lee Hoinacki trod the 500-mile route followed by Europeans for more than a thousand years, stopping each evening at pilgrim hospices, some centuries-old, to write in his diary. His reflections range from the historical examination of religious sensibility to analyses of modern developments in architecture and technology, from the theological understanding of place to the mentality of mountain bike riders
Print Book, English, 1996
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., 1996
xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780271016122, 9780271015439, 0271016124, 0271015438
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