Mary Colwell makes a 500-mile solo pilgrimage along the Camino
Frances, winding through forests, mountains, farmland, industrial
sprawls and places of worship, weaving her experiences of the
Camino with natural history, spirituality and modern
environmentalism. Ancient pathways through the modern world are
gathering places for contemplation and touch-points for unexpected
kindness, intense spirituality, demon-slaying, strange goings-on
and magical tales. Pilgrims pitch themselves against heat, cold,
wet, dry, hunger, thirst, and sometimes pain as the nature around
them offers succour, medicine and, at times, warnings. Pilgrimages
are physical journeys through space as well as metaphysical
journeys through time. The same tracks follow the same routes
through a planet always in flux, providing still points in a
turning world. Our ancestors trod them before us and left their
fretful or hopeful dreams in monuments scattered across the
landscape. These ornate cathedrals, standing stones, mysterious
caves and secret hermitages speak of a hunger for pardon,
immortality, beauty and a release from fear. Yet, undertaking a
pilgrimage is acknowledging that while the world may change,
humanity does not. Pilgrims have always walked in times of
upheaval. In Gathering Places, author, nature campaigner and
veteran solo walker Mary Colwell relates her pilgrimage along the
Camino Frances in a time of global pandemic when the focus of
political power in the western world was shifting. The 500 miles of
pathways of the Camino wind through mountains, forests, farmland,
plains, cities, villages and industrial sprawl, as well as places
of worship. In a typical year, 100,000 people walk this route or
part of it. Mary walked the entire path virtually alone, nature her
only fellow traveller. In this delightful book, she weaves her
experiences of the Camino with natural history, history, spiritual
stories and modern environmentalism.
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