Stephen Walsh follows five pilgrimages with five sets of extraordinary people to five breathtaking places: bourgeois tourist pilgrims to Jerusalem; ascetics to Compostela in Spain; a mentally and physically disabled group to Lourdes; people who live in siege-like environments to Bosnia; and to Rome with pious working class parishioners. Writing as a lapsed Catholic, this book is one of the author's personal journey as well as one of general discussion by exploring Catholicism, past and present, religious and cultural, public and personal.
- ISBN10 014027216X
- ISBN13 9780140272161
- Publish Date 28 March 2002 (first published 29 March 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English