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The Crossway
The Crossway | Guy Stagg
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Winner - Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. 'An extraordinary travelogue, strange and brilliant' i 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. It was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' on publication.
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The Crossway | Guy Stagg
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#WeekendReads late post!
1.The lyrical, compelling,informative account of Stagg's attempt at walking the Via Francigena
2.So many!Barbara Trapido, Chimamanda Adichie, Gwendoline Riley,Agatha Christie,Katherine Mansfield,Arundhati Roy,AS Byatt,Jean Plaidy,Lisa Kleypas,JK Rowling,Jane Austen,Georgette Heyer
3.I love Jean Plaidy's books about Elizabethan England,and her account of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots

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Vansa
The Crossway | Guy Stagg
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#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Fun filling this! To describe mixture more-its a combination of fried lentils, gram, flavoured peanuts,cashewnuts, raisins, and it's my absolute favourite! Apart from lemon cake.

Eggs Mixture sounds healthy!! 13mo
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Vansa
The Crossway | Guy Stagg
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I'm so behind on so many nice prompts! #WeekendReads
1.On the banks of plum creek with Litsy,Swann in love,Christendom,on how Christianity spread and as a companion piece,the tagged lovely book,Joseph Roths Emperors tomb,My father's house by Joseph O'Connor,Let me tell you what I mean by Joan Didion.
3.By fat, Elizabeth Jenkins' The tortoise and the hare.Still thinking about it.

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The Crossway | Guy Stagg
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A journey book for my journey...

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The Crossway | Guy Stagg

Walking made the world wide again.