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The Golden Step
Christopher Somerville
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Description for The Golden Step
Paperback. Takes readers on an expedition where the author traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge, with no mobile phone or other technological aids. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge, with no mobile phone or other technological aids. The only plan for his journey was to begin in the East at Easter and finish at Whitsun in the extreme West, at the Monastery of the Golden Step, whose gold step, legend says, can only be seen by those who have purged themselves into purity. During his 300-mile walk, he tackled four ... Read more
For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge, with no mobile phone or other technological aids. The only plan for his journey was to begin in the East at Easter and finish at Whitsun in the extreme West, at the Monastery of the Golden Step, whose gold step, legend says, can only be seen by those who have purged themselves into purity. During his 300-mile walk, he tackled four ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907973345
SKU
V9781907973345
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About Christopher Somerville
Christopher Somerville is a writer, journalist and TV presenter. He was Walking Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph for 15 years. He is the author of Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places (Penguin), Coast (BBC Books), Somerville's 100 Best Walks (Armchair Traveller), Never Eat Shredded Wheat: The Geography We've Lost and How to Find it Again (Hodder & Stoughton) and Walking ... Read more
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