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Article: The path often taken.(Books)(The Road to Santiago)(Book Review)
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- February 27, 2004
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The Road to Santiago
Kathryn Harrison
National Geographic Directions, $20, 150 pp.
I walked through the Middle Ages last summer. Not some medieval fair, with jousting, damsels in cone-shaped hats, and Harleys crowding the parking lot. This was a pilgrimage on cow paths and mountain trails, village to village, from one bell-towered square to the next. I saw people washing clothes in a stream and elderly women tossing hay with pitchforks. I heard Benedictine monks chant vespers in Latin in a church the Templars built. I stumbled along dung-spotted stone roads and bridges the Romans built. And I learned what it meant to travel solely on foot, ...
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...Random House UK Announces New Media Sales, Distribution ... Calif., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Random House UK Ltd and Knowledge Adventure today ... Under the terms of the agreement, Random House Children's Books will distribute and ...
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