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Xosé Manuel<BR>
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In a message dated 2/28/2003 5:24:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, kathygoweraHOTMAIL.COM writes:<BR>
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Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom wasn't one of my favorites when I was<BR>
looking for advice on the Camino, but afterwards it became one of the best<BR>
to give a flavor of Spain itself through the ages as the author takes his<BR>
own inner Camino, driving and walking all over Spain, trying to find what<BR>
gave context to the Camino...middle ages, small villages, beliefs and<BR>
travails, history and faith. He brings this all in, staying with friends<BR>
(he's Dutch) or in paradors...walking to remote villages and consulting old<BR>
books and with people who have kept the flame, so to speak, all over Spain.<BR>
His is a love affair with the land-the majestic, the desert, the simple, the<BR>
sublime and royal--all context and perspective.<BR>
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Can you tell I think it's a must read even if you don't agree?<BR>
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>>Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom....<BR>
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>Hi Kathy, could u please write an impressionably brief synopsis on this<BR>
>book? Might be what am looking for. Thanks,<BR>
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>XM<BR>
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