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A Peek at the Remarkable Camino de Santiago: A Photo Journey (Woman On Her Way Book 4) Kindle Edition
This 130+ photo journey illustrates the phenomenal appeal of the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain. By mixing pictures of the majestic Pyrenees, the high plains of Spain, and the Galician hills with those of architecture, people, and the Spanish culture you get a peek at this remarkable trail and why it has gained the status of a European Cultural Itinerary.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
- • Sample what you can see each day as you travel along the author's 2011 43-day journey.
- • Let these photos ease your concerns about your upcoming pilgrimage.
- • Discover why walking is the best way to travel.
- • Through the photographs, see Spain in a unique way, up close and personal.
- • Recall the joys of your own Camino with this photo memento.
Jane V. Blanchard says, "While assembling these photos, I tried to capture the essence of the Camino Francés so my readers could savor its beauty and understand its draw. I hope these pictures inspire a desire to explore the world by walking. That slow pace best allows the mind to register the beauty that you might otherwise miss."
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 19, 2016
- File size11777 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B01IO2P46A
- Publisher : Jane V. Blanchard; 2nd edition (August 19, 2016)
- Publication date : August 19, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 11777 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 152 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #37,710 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2 in Hiking & Walking Travel
- #5 in Spain & Portugal Travel
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About the author
Jane V. Blanchard is the author of the Woman on Her Way series. Her books describe hiking adventures on the back roads and trails of the world. In her most recent award-winning book, A Short Walk on a Long Trail: A Couple's Sauntering on the Vermont Long Trail, she co-authors with Dennis Blanchard the story of her first wilderness hike.
Before retiring, Jane was a technical writer. Off work, she enjoyed biking and hiking and, over her lifetime, climbed twenty of the forty 4,000-foot mountains in New England. She retired in 2011 to walk 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago in Spain—her first long walk. Now, Jane explores countries on foot and then writes about the adventure for her readers' escape and entertainment.
Jane's first book, Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino, mingles her personal story with conversations she had with other modern-day female pilgrims on the Camino. In her award-winning Hadrian's Wall Path: Walking into History, Jane shares her discoveries along the 84-mile path across northern England.
Jane was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Upon graduation from college, she worked as a travel guide in Madrid, Spain, and cried at her first bullfight. In 1975, she and her husband, Dennis, lived in a tent in Winchendon, Massachusetts, for six months (until December) while building a log cabin. After two years of living off the grid, they lived a self-sufficient lifestyle on a five-acre "gentleman's" farm. Before moving to Sarasota, Florida, she lived in Hampstead, New Hampshire, for twenty-four years. There, she raised two children, coached soccer and Odyssey of the Mind, and received the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Volunteer of the Year Award in 1996.
In Sarasota, Jane became involved with several national and local organizations bent on helping women. She hosted a weekly radio show, Woman Matters, for two-and-a-half years.
In her 50s, Jane started mountain biking and racing. In 2002, she placed second in the Eastern Fat Tire Association Senior Division. "Even though I was not the fastest competitor, I did attend and compete in the majority of that year's races. Like with the turtle and the hare, slow and consistent wins over fast but sporadic."
When she married in 1974, her husband, Dennis, and she joked about creating a lifetime of memories to chat about when sitting on their rockers in old age. Now in her 70s, Jane is still making memories, experiencing life as fully as possible, and looking forward to a long future. "I have to live long enough to write about all my adventures," she says.
In addition to having adventures, writing, and publishing, Jane enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.
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Each page, every picture, made me think "I've been there! I've seen that!" The miracle of Pilgrimage is that once you've embarked upon it you are joined by the millions before you, discovering the same wonders, enduring the same challenges. I guess it's the challenges that forge the identity of being a Pilgrim, which don't happen on a 'normal' vacation.
If you're thinking about doing this, stop thinking and make a plane reservation! Stop researching, and Go!
Anxious? Then step into the joy of discovery, as the Angels on the Camino take care of its Pilgrims. Human angels? Yes. Heavenly angels? Absolutely. Just go...
I definitely recommend anyone who has an interest in Spain pick up this book. And I look forward to reading about the actual journey as well.
It’s nothing but a collection of small, very low-resolution photos. And they are almost uniformly bad. Poorly framed, uncropped, terrible lighting and typically featuring the same person photographed from behind.
This is the kind of book that gives all self-published authors a bad name.
Top reviews from other countries
Firstly, I love walking and respect anyone who with strong boots on, endures the challenges of a long distance footpath.
The Camino de Santiago has thrilled me since I watched Brian Sewell's The Naked Pilgrim- The Road Santiago (2003). I have read many books around this subject subsequently.
A Peek ..... promised a photo journey and that is exactly what it is. What I loved most is these are person glimpses along the way as well as the highlights along the route. Her captions although in seem cases unnecessary help build a bond with Jane and the reader.
The trip is broken down into stages so as stated it can be seen as a companion to her other guides.
It is a strong set of prints but the overwhelming sense they give is one of togetherness. You feel connected in a real way. I admire her motivation and her hope that in sharing these experiences encourages others to recollect their own journey or embark on planning their own pilgrimage.
There are a few well placed words here but the main feature of the book is the personal snaps she shares that tell the story and depict the beautiful countryside and places the way passes.
You have to love someone who prior to the trek wanted to go up into the Pyrenees where the route joins from France. Not her greatest moment having endured the mountains they got lost on their return on a valley route. - This connects the writer with me and gives me trust in her writing by her honesty
enjoyed and would recomend