- Title:
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The Crossway (MP3)
- Written by:
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Guy Stagg
- Read by:
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Laurence Dobiesz
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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13 hours 27 minutes
- MP3 size:
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556 MB
- Published:
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August 28 2018
- Available Date:
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August 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509899661
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Atheism; Christianity; Health; Lifestyle - Travel; Lifestyle - Wellbeing; Memoirs; Religious; Self Help; Writer
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Simultaneously a breathtaking account of a physical journey and a memoir about recovering from mental illness.
In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. For ten months he hiked alone on ancient paths, crossing ten countries and more than 5,500 kilometres. The Crossway is an account of this extraordinary adventure.
Having left home on New Year’s Day, Stagg climbed over the Alps in midwinter, spent Easter in Rome with a new pope, joined mass protests in Istanbul and survived a terrorist attack in Lebanon. Travelling without support, he had to rely each night on the generosity of strangers, staying with monks and nuns, priests and families. As a result, he gained a unique insight into the lives of contemporary believers and learnt the fascinating stories of the soldiers and saints, missionaries and martyrs who had followed these paths before him.
The Crossway is a book full of wonders, mixing travel and memoir, history and current affairs. At once intimate and epic, it charts the author’s struggle to walk towards recovery, and asks whether religion can still have meaning for those without faith.
'A sublime, intense, and intimate account of a journey that becomes a kind of dream in search of solace and, perhaps, even a kind of faith ... It is a timely antidote to our disconnected times.'
Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
'... one of the most compelling travel books I've read in a long time, as well as a thought-provoking meditation on what it means to have faith in our turbulent contemporary world.'
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