Vs: Frans' list of other books

[fkjaer]

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Fra: Preston Pittman <preston_pittmanahotmail.com>
Til: <fkjaerapost7.tele.dk>
Sendt: 8. februar 2002 20:50
Emne: Frans' list of other books


> Frans - thank you for the wonderiful little bibliography.  I've also read
> the Hoinacki and Frey books and would recommend them along with Elyn's
> wonderiful book.  I have a couple of the other books but haven't gotten to
> them yet.  I just picked up Miles' CHRIST: CRISIS IN THE LIFE OF GOD.
>
> Andrea - it must have been two years since I read Shirley's book but I
> thought she had described this past life vision as being a gypsy - I am
> getting older and don't remember as well as I used to, but I thought that
> was one of the things that particularly annoyed me so she must have said it
> somewhere in the book.  It was just a little too flaky!  I guess, as several
> people have noted, the importance of her book is that it made alot of people
> aware of the Camino who hadn't heard of it before.  For that, I guess we can
> thank her.  Hopefully, the renewed popularity of the Camino will have mostly
> positive effects (improved trail markings, refugios, and safety) and not
> turn it into a "Catholic Disneyland" phenomenon.
>
> peace,
> Preston
> >From: fkjaer <fkjaerapost7.tele.dk>
> >Reply-To: fkjaer <fkjaerapost7.tele.dk>
> >To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> >Subject: Sv:      Re: Shirley Maclaine's book-And a question
> >Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 21:18:56 +0100
> >
> >Mac Quart wrote:
> >
> > >>Can anyone recommend a good book about the camino, written
> >by someone who is just a regular person (not rich or famous) and describes
> >the
> >trials and triumphs he or she experienced on the Camino without any new age
> >spirituality?<<
> >
> >
> >Hi Mac,
> >
> >Some people say that it was reading Shirley Maclaines book that made them
> >walk the camino.
> >For my part, I can only say that I am glad that her book wasn't the first I
> >read about the camino. Had that been the case I never would have had the
> >privilege of walking 'the Milky Way'.
> >
> >Among my favourites in the English language are:
> >
> >Frey, Nancy Louise: Pilgrim Stories. On and Off the Road to Santiago.
> >Journeys Along an
> >Ancient Way in Modern Spain.
> >University of California Press,
> >© 1998 by The Regents of the University of California.
> >ISBN 0-520-25754-9.
> >
> >Hitt, Jack: Off the Road, A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into
> >Spain.
> >© Jack Hitt 1994, Aurum Press,
> >Bodmin 1998.
> >ISBN 1 85410 306 7
> >[ Both learned and funny. He is 'the devils advocate'! ]
> >
> >Hoinacki, Lee: El camino. Walking to Santiago de Compostela.
> >© 1996 The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park,
> >Pennsylvania.
> >Second printing,USA 1997.
> >ISBN 0-271-01612-4
> >[ Among the very best! ]
> >
> >Luard, Nicholas: The Field of the Star. A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de
> >Compostela,
> >©Nicholas Luard 1998. Penguin Books, St Ives, 1999
> >[ Describes a fathers pilgrimage during his daughters fight against AIDS ]
> >
> >Robberstad, Knud Helge: Veien til Santiago. En vandring til Santiago de
> >Compostela,
> >As verbum Grafiske, Stavanger 1996.
> >ISBN 9 788299 414906
> >[ In Norwegian. English translation June 1998: The Road to Santiago, ISBN:
> >8299414911 - excellent photographs! ]
> >
> >Stanton, Edward F.: Road of Stars to Santiago,
> >© 1994 The University Press of Kentucky,
> >ISBN 0-8131-1871-9
> >
> >
> >Finally, I look forward to reading the following (as soon as I have
> >finished Shirley Maclaines book!):
> >
> >Aviva, Elyn: Following the Milky Way: A Pilgrimage on the Camino De
> >Santiago,
> >2nd edition 2001. Pilgrim's Process, Inc., Boulder. Colorado
> >ISBN0-9710609-0-8
> >
> >Lash, Jennifer: On Pilgrimage, A Time to Seek,
> >Bloomsbury Paperbacks 1998,
> >ISBN 0-7475-3651-1
> >
> >Mullins, Edwin:The Pilgrimage to Santiago,
> >© 1974.
> >Signal Books,
> >ISBN 1-902669-31-2
> >
> >Nimmo, Ben: Pilgrim Snail, Busking to Santiago,
> >Flamingo, 2001,
> >ISBN-00-710473-1
> >
> >
> >Frans.
> >
> >[ 56°11'38,6'' N. - 10°14'5,36'' E. ]
>
>
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