A Sense of Direction, (Paperback)

from co_coyote

As someone who has an excessive wish for travel (not always fulfilled, alas!) and a significant interest in the Camino de Santiago in particular, I have read a lot of travel books in the past couple of years. Most of them not so good. Gideon Lewis-Kraus could have been reading my mind when he wro...

from davidpwithun

"A sense of direction," it seems, is what all of us are looking for these days. We live in a world that has made self-consciousness and self-interest our primary preoccupations. As a result, we spend most our lives in a state very near disorientation, simply moving from one place or person to the...

from dpelaez

The book showed the story of a troubled young man coping with his father's decision to "come out". I learned much about different pilgrimages that are out available in the world and the travel book aspect is very well written.

from dono421846

A travel book where the primary itinerary has less to do with the physical landscape than the interior journey toward less discovery than catharsis. The problem with this effort is that the author is quite young to be attempting a book about the travails of existential angst. Neither he nor anyon...

from skraft001

I picked up this book for the Camino pilgrimage portion of the book. The Shikoku was Ok and I abandoned the section on the Jewish pilgrimage with his father and brother.