THE WAY OF THE STARS/ JOURNEYS ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking. Even today, between seventy and one hundre d million people a year make pilgrimages, if not for expressly religious reasons, then for an alternative to secular goals and the p reoccupation with consumption and entertainment characteristic of contemporary life. In The Way of the Stars, the journalist Robert Sibley, motivated at least in part by his own sense of discontent, recounts his walks on one of the most well-known pilgrimages in t he Wester...[Read more]