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On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain

Autor Oliver Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 mar 2024
Acclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith sets out to radically reframe our idea of 'pilgrimage' in Britain by retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journeys in the depths of Ice Age to new pilgrimages of the 21st century.He embarks on an epic adventure across sacred British landscapes - climbing into remote sea caves, sleeping inside Neolithic tombs, scaling forgotten holy mountains and once marooning himself at sea. Following holy roads to churches, cathedrals and standing stones, this evocative and enlightening travelogue explores places prehistoric, pagan and Christian, but also reveals how football stadiums and music festivals have become contemporary places of pilgrimage. The routes walked are often ancient, the pilgrims he meets are always modern. But underpinning the book is a timeless truth: that making journeys has always been a way of making meaning. So often, Oliver finds, "the unravelling of a path goes in tandem with the unravelling of the soul."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781399409032
ISBN-10: 1399409034
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 10 black and white interior photos
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Interest in pilgrims' routes is seeing enormous growth as people have returned to British holidays and walking. In recent years a number of people and organisations have attempted to rediscover ancient holy paths in Britain to cater for modern-day pilgrims. This resulted in the establishment of The British Pilgrimage Trust in 2014, which will be a good avenue of support for the book.

Notă biografică

Oliver Smith is an acclaimed travel writer working mostly for the Financial Times, The Times and Outside Magazine in the USA. For 10 years he worked for Lonely Planet Magazine. During his time there he won Travel Writer of the Year at the Travel Media Awards, was AITO Travel Writer of the Year on three occasions, and was nominated for PPA Writer of the Year. He has walked big parts of the Appian Way in Italy, the Camino Frances (Or French Way, the most famous of all Santiago de Compostela routes), the Via Francigena on the St. Bernard's Pass in Italy and Switzerland and the North Wales Pilgrims Way. His first book, The Atlas of Abandoned Places will be published this October by Octopus. Oliver Smith studied at Cardiff University and currently lives in London. He is not committed to any religion.