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The Crossway
Af: Guy Stagg
Engelsk Hardback
The Crossway
Af: Guy Stagg
Engelsk Hardback

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Winner - Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019.
Shortlisted - Rathbones Folio Prize, RSL Ondaatje Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award 2019.

In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. For ten months he hiked alone on ancient paths, crossing ten countries and more than 5,500 kilometres. The Crossway is an account of this extraordinary adventure.

Having left home on New Year’s Day, Stagg climbed over the Alps in midwinter, spent Easter in Rome with a new pope, joined mass protests in Istanbul and survived a terrorist attack in Lebanon. Travelling without support, he had to rely each night on the generosity of strangers, staying with monks and nuns, priests and families. As a result, he gained a unique insight into the lives of contemporary believers and learnt the fascinating stories of the soldiers and saints, missionaries and martyrs who had followed these paths before him.

The Crossway is a book full of wonders, mixing travel and memoir, history and current affairs. At once intimate and epic, it charts the author’s struggle to walk towards recovery, and asks whether religion can still have meaning for those without faith.

A BBC Radio 4 ''Book of the Week'' in 2018.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9781509844579
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1509844570
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
14 jun 2018
Længde:
39mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
14 jun 2018
Forfatter(e):
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