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Title: El Camino: Walking to Santiago De Compostela (Penn State Series in Lived Religious Experience) by Lee Hoinacki ISBN: 0-271-01612-4 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $38.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Perfectly adequate travel writing - if that's all you want..
Comment: While this book contains great descriptions of the camino, the refugios and the travelers along the way, I was unprepared for the screed against modernization and technology. Obviously, there are serious downsides to progress as we know it, but the relentless atttack on technology and the modern world borders on fanatical. It makes for a tiresome, if not predictable, read.
As travel writing, it's perfectly adequate.You do feel like you are inside his head, brushing up against his thoughts and perceptions, occasionally tripping on his prejudices as he ambles through the 500 some odd miles from the French border to Santiago de Compostela. If you do decide to pick up this book, make sure you also read something that presents the camino and the people on it through different perspectives. I'm sure you could find a book about the camino that is a little less judgemental.
As religious reflection, well, let's just say it's no Seven Storey Mountain and leave it at that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Spiritually and emotionally moving experience
Comment: I was totally fascinated by this book. The descriptions of places and historical references were a great addition to understanding the signficance of the pilgrim's journeys, currently and in centuries past. The author's thoughts on technology, tradition, modernization and even aging were a marvelous commentary set against this ancient journey. As a result of a previous visit to Santiago and reading this book, I am even more moved to make my own journey on the camino.
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent introduction to the Camino of Santiago
Comment: An inspiring travelogue of the ups and downs of the life of a modern pilgrim. Great reflections on spirituality, religion, modernisation, architecture, and travel in the modern age. Lots of practical tips can be gleaned from his experience of the walk. It was one of the first books I read about the pilgrimage before setting out myself this past fall. Hoinacki taught me that this pilgrimage, although not original, is certainly experienced uniquely by each person who decides one day to just put on a pack and start walking, like he did. He decided that chocolate would be too much of an indulgence for the pilgrim. So he never ate chocolate while he was walking. I did. And lots of it!!
P.S. I got my copy at Wide World Books and Maps in Seattle.
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Title: Following the Milky Way: A Pilgrimage on the Camino De Santiago by Elyn Aviva ISBN: 0971060908 Publisher: Pilgrims' Process Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino Frances: From St. Jean Pied De Port to Santiago De Compostela by John Brierley ISBN: 1844090108 Publisher: Findhorn Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela by William Melczer ISBN: 0934977259 Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Walking the Camino de Santiago by Bethan Davies, Ben Cole ISBN: 097316980X Publisher: Pili Pala Press Pub. Date: 03 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago : The Complete Cultural Handbook by David M. Gitlitz, Linda Kay Davidson ISBN: 0312254164 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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