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The Roads to Santiago: The Medieval Pilgrim Routes Through France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela | 
 enlarge | Creator: Derry Brabbs
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 81847
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0711227063
Dewey Decimal Number: 203
EAN: 9780711227064
ASIN: 0711227063
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
According to legend, St. James the Apostle preached throughout the Iberian peninsula. His bones found their way to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela and today many pilgrims make trips to the shrine. This fully illustrated book covers all the routes to this holy place from Paris and Spain. Providing readers with historical context for the routes, it showcases all the stunning monuments and magnificent landscapes along the way.
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 A Tour de Force December 29, 2008
This book is a Tour de Force. I've known about it for a few months now, but didn't expect to ever see it, because of the price. Fortunately someone, knowing my desire to read all things on the Camino, arranged to have it appear as a Christmas gift.
This is a gorgeous book, sized for coffee table display, and full of color photos. Most coffee table books are full of pictures with a few lines of descriptive text. The text in The Roads to Santiago could stand on its own as a work on pilgrimage architecture and history. It clearly was an immense amount of work to write. I wish the authors or publishers had seen fit to mention how long it to complete.
The definitive work still in print on the Camino de Santiago is Gitlitz and Davidson The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook. That work covers the architecture and history within the borders of Spain. Imagine Gitlitz and Davidson, in color, with bigger and better photos, including the four pilgrim routes through France, and you have some idea of The Roads to Santiago.
This four pound book is something I recommend to someone who has walked the Camino de Santiago, and is thirsty for more information. A few hours with this book and you will be thinking about booking a trip to France and starting down one of the French chemins.
 Great impressions September 13, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Although you can find books of any kind about the now so popular roads to Santiago, this one adds value by its beautiful pictures and well written impressions that go along them.
Especially, if you didn't take a camera along your own camino, this book is an addition.
It brought quite some memories back to my mind.
And it makes me long for other roads.
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