El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela

by Lee Hoinacki

Book Overview

El Camino (Spanish for "the way") is a day-by-day account of a modern American pilgrim's solitary walk from St. Jean Pied de Port in France, across the Pyrenees and northern Spain, to Santiago de Compostela, believed since medieval times to be the burial place of Saint James. During thirty-two days in 1993, Lee Hoinacki trod the 500-mile route followed by Europeans for over a thousand years, stopping each evening at pilgrim hospices, some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027959
• ISBN13: 9780271027951
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"