Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage Stories
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Book Overview
"Reading the wonderfully varied and unexpected stories assembled here, I was struck by how much the notion of pilgrimage today has to do with retrieving a sense of purpose (and simplicity, and constancy); with putting oneself, quite literally, in the footsteps of the past. Once upon a less secular time, almost everyone made pilgrimages, and most of the great works of our early literature -- Dante's ascent into the stars, Chaucer's wanderers to Canterbury,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1883513081
ISBN13:9781883513085
Release Date:October 1999
Publisher:Whereabouts Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Beautifully written
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
From Pico Iyer's igniting forward and carried throughout the book by each storyteller, the book propels you forward into places and circumstances that most of us will never witness or experience. The book itself is an internal pilgrimage - a collection of color, culture, time and timelessness.. wrapped into a single text.
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