His life was a shambles, he felt exhausted by work, his marriage
was foundering. So he prepared a backpack, found a walking staff
and departed on a 30-day, 500-mile journey along the Camino de
Santiago, the route across northern Spain that has been followed by
pilgrims for at least a thousand years. He knew what he was fleeing
from, not what he was seeking. The Camino would teach him that and
many other things. Walking by day, he slept in pilgrims' hospices
at night, in boarding houses, in abandoned schools and churches or
under the stars. As he moved forward in space, he seemed to be
going backwards into time. He went through country where villages
and people have barely changed since the Middle Ages, landscapes
that James Michener has called the best in Spain and some of the
finest in the world. Although he began his trip alone, Edward F.
Stanton soon discovered that pilgrimage means fellowship as well as
solitude: his journey coincided with the modern revival of the
Camino de Santiago. Along the way he met a Spanish astrologer who
taught him to find his own rhythm in walking, the abbess of a
convent who offered him sage advice for the road, a pair of French
women in search of a new life, peasants and shepherds with the
knowledge of centuries. Road of Stars to Santiago is a beautifully
written story that blends personal experience with folklore,
legend, the wisdom of old chronicles and canny observations of life
in modern Spain. It is at once a travel memoir, a picaresque
adventure, a modern quest, a rite of passage and initiation into
what has been called "the premier cultural route of Europe".
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