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Book Review: The Good Wife of Bath Karen Brooks
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Penguin, UK, 2019 This engaging medieval novel describes a provocative literary character based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s promiscuous Wife of Bath, featured in The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer mocks this strong woman, reinforcing the rigidly and, sometimes, violently enforced male patriarchy of […]
Book Review: The Salt Path: Raynor Winn Penguin, UK, 2019
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This is the true story of Welsh couple, Raynor & Moth Winn, who discover they’re going to lose their farm where they had reared their two children. A day later a doctor tells Moth that he has a rare, incurable […]
Happiness Is That Way: 55 days on the Camino Via de la Plata
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By Cici Edwards-Jensen & Mike Jensen (self-published, 2020) Contact enquires: Happinesisthatway@gmail.com Sales enquiries: www.happinessisthatway.shop Cici was introduced to the Camino by Tony Kevin’s book, Walk- ing the Camino, which describes his Camino starting in Granada. She had worked at the […]
Book Review: The Roland Medals: a novel
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Published by the author, 2021 Maureen Cashman has a knack for evoking place and I enjoyed reading her previous book “Charlie & Me in Val-Paradis”, her memoir about the trials and tribulations of temporarily relocating not only herself but also […]
Book Review Finding Santiago Stories From and About the Camino de Santiago
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‘Finding Santiago’ is a collection of stories from and about the Camino de Santiago. The author’s name, Don Thomas, is a pseudonym and, interestingly, the story of how that pseudonym came about features in the book. ‘Don’ is a well-known, […]
CD Rreview – The Acfields: “A Road of Dust And Stone’”
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As I’ve walked my virtual Camino in recent months it’s given me the opportunity to catch up on the many great podcasts posted by our Camino promoting friend, Dan Mullins. Recently, I came across an interview Dan did with musician […]
Book Review: Keep Pressing On, Brother, by Noel Braun
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by Noel Braun Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne 2020 317pp ISBN 978-1-9255707-26-7 $29.95 plus $5.85 postage through www.noelbraun.com.au This book is the third Camino memoir by Australian octogenarian Noel Braun, who hails from Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains. As recently as […]
REVIEW: Pilgrims, a YouTube documentary by Alexandre Amaral
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As I sit in my home and dream of walking The Way I flicked on to YouTube to discover a recent documentary – “Pilgrims’. It transported me back to my time walking the Camino. This documentary provides a deep insight […]
Book Review: Backpacks, Boots & (No) Blisters
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Mark H.O’Sullivan Second edition 2018, 83 pages ISBN -13:9781724090904 ‘The best way to get Camino ready is to learn from those who have walked it’ So asserts the author of this book, Mark O’Sullivan, an Australian currently living in the […]
Book Review: The Only Way Home by Liz Byron
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We were pleased to receive this book review which we thought you might enjoy during this insular time when no travel overseas is allowed. There are many trails in Australia to be explored and this is one of them! EDITOR […]
Furnace Full of God: a Holy Year on the Camino de Santiago
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Author: Rebekah Scott Peaceable Publ; 2020 Rebekah Scott is a seeker. Of stories, truths and beliefs. Her home in a tiny adobe pueblo at the heart of the Camino Francés is both a haven for weary pilgrims and incubator of […]
Camino Invierno — at last, an English guidebook!
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A guidebook in English to this road less travelled is now available from mapiberia.com The Camino Invierno or Winter Road takes the pilgrim to Santiago from Ponferrada and is approx. 260k long. It is a beautiful, scenic and peaceful alternative […]
Book Review: CSJ Camino Guides 2019
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The London, UK-based Confraternity of St James (CSJ) was founded by 6 camino enthusiasts in 1983, making it the oldest English-speaking association of pilgrims. It now has over 2000 members, has issued over 10,000 pilgrim passports, and runs two pilgrim […]
Play Review: Blister
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Recently I was privileged to view the premiere of a new play, Blister, written by one of our members, Sarah Peters. Directed by Tiffany Lyndall-Knight with a musical score written and performed by Rachel Bruerville, it is full of energy, […]
Book Review: Your Inner Camino & After The Camino
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(Set of 2 pocket books) Author: Karin Kiser. Camino Chronicles Press, 2019. Your Inner Camino: Your Pocket Guide to Inspiration and Transformation along the Camino de Santiago This little book is not designed to be read before you start your […]
Book Review: The Way of the Stars and Stones: thoughts on a pilgrimage by Wilna Wilkinson
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Jacana Publishing, Auckland Park, South Africa 2009. Second imprint, paperback 279pp. Available from fishpond.com.au for $28.20, free shipping from the UK. At its April general meeting in Adelaide, the Australian Friends of the Camino had the good fortune to hear […]
Book Review: The Camino Portugués: from Lisbon and Porto to Santiago – Central, Coastal and Spiritual Caminos
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This welcome new guide to the 620km Camino Portugués responds well to the needs of pilgrims undertaking a largely rural Camino which continues to grow in pilgrim numbers by about 10% annually - and which is now the second most travelled pilgrim route in Spain after the Camino Francés.
The Art of Pilgrimage
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I first saw a copy of Cousineau’s book when it was left behind by a pilgrim in the albergue at Grañon where I was working in 2001. I was taken by the opening lines of the foreward: The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.
Book review: Born to Walk by Dan Rubinstein
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The humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture and class and it’s one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy […]
Book Review, A Soldier to Santiago by Brad Genereux
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It is impossible to walk this journey without journeying into oneself. This book is one man’s story of how he found peace along the pilgrimage to Santiago. It is the honest story of a stiff, formal, no nonsense Senior Chief […]
Book Review: I Guess I’ll Just Keep On Walking by Noel Braun
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Noel Braun’s book takes one on a spiritual and emo- tional journey of self-discovery. From the start of the book, as a reader, I felt great admiration for Noel as he relied on his strength, both physical and emotional, to […]
A Way With Words
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Rob Jorritsma arrived in Australia from Holland not long after completing his first Camino when he walked from his home in the Netherlands to Santiago in 1999. In 2001 he and Inés, the partner he met on that Camino, returned […]
Spiritual Companion For Pilgrims
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Update: Sept 2019, SOLD OUT We, the Australian Friends of the Camino, have had four of our members contribute to the new Spiritual Companion for Pilgrims. The short reflections, accompanied by lovely photographs and relevant short quotations, are interesting and […]
The Lore of the Camino de Santiago: a literary pilgrimage
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This book is one the latest, and most eclectic, informative and best researched contributions to the burgeoning litera- ture on the Camino, which I became aware of when I had the good fortune to walk awhile with its author, Jean Mitchell-Lanham, on the Camino Portugués this year.
A Food Lover’s Pilgrimage To France: Food, Farming And Stories From The French Pilgrim Paths To Santiago De Compostela by Dee Nolan
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Lantern books, 2014 Dee Nolan’s new book has been four years in the making – a rich, fascinating years spent immersed in the food and history along these ancient pilgrim routes, hearing the stories of the cooks and farmers along […]
27 Days a Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela by Michael Thornton
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Despite quadruple heart bypass surgery, fear of failure, and concern over being labelled a copycat for repeating the theme of the movie The Way—walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in memory of a lost son—64 year-old Melbourne writer Michael Thornton takes on the often gruelling 800km Spanish pilgrimage.
Walking With Stones: A Spiritual Odyssey on the Pilgrimage to Santiago by William Schmidt
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I have read four Camino books in the last month, all addressing the Camino in different ways. Two of the books are by Australian authors, I am God’s Heart by Marianne Bailey and A Slow Walk Across Spain by Karen […]
Walking back to happiness by Christine Palmer
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Health warning: this is not the ideal book for experienced walkers who might have already reached Everest’s base camp, nor is it for the experienced slimmers who know their way around a good detox...
Camino Books by Aussies
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The way of a thousand arrows: An Australian family’s journey through the Camino de Santiago Camino Francés Jonathon Drane Greenshot, 2007 Memoirs of a pilgrim: Footprints on the Road to Santiago Brad Kyle Camino Francés Zeus, 2010 The year we […]