[Gocamino] Re: [saintjames] La Flecha y la Vieyra & guidebooks.

[Blaroli at aol.com]

Hi Nick,
I gather from your message that you are not in the USA. If you are in Europe 
it would be a lot easier to send the books from Seville when I am there next 
month.  
In fact, the first time that I got the watercolors  book "Flecha y Viera" I 
got it in Seville.
There is also another wonderful book  called "The Yellow Arrow" with 
photographs and drawings of the various versions of yellow arrows that maybe found 
throughout the Camino and related narratives.
Other than the watercolors, pencil drawings,  and oil paintings Camino books 
that I have seen, the most impressive, in my view, was a huge one that came 
accompanied with a 2 hour DVD of  Coelho narrating and speaking at length about 
the Camino.  At first I thought that the book was the one Cohelo wrote  
augmented by photographs, etc.  for marketing purposes, and since I had not cared 
much for the book to begin with,  I bought the package only for the DVD.  Much 
to my delighted surprise it turned out that the book had been put together by 
the Xunta and various newspaper  photographers and writers, and sundry other 
groups, as a promotion and celebration of the Holy Xacobean Year.  It really is 
terriffic, both in looks and contents..  Further, the book and the DVD 
together only cost 30 Euros, (which  was the price of the French DVD alone!)
But the book is very big ,  and weighs a ton. In fact, I mailed mine to 
myself, by ship,  from Santiago because it was just too much trouble to carry it.
Let me know what you think.
Warm regards,
Rosina