Description
| Product ID: | 9781509844593 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Crossway |
| Authors: | Author: Guy Stagg |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Christianity, Travel writing, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Travel writing, South & South East England, Western Continental Europe, Southeast Europe, Israel |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Simultaneously a breathtaking account of a physical journey and a memoir about recovering from mental illness. <p><b>Winner - Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019.</b><br><b>Shortlisted -</b> <b>Rathbones Folio Prize, </b><b>Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and </b><b>Somerset Maugham Award 2019.</b><br><br>'An extraordinary travelogue, strange and brilliant' - <i>i</i><br><br>In 2013 Guy Stagg walked from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the pilgrimage 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. Travelling without support, he had to rely each night on the charity of strangers.<br><br><i>The Crossway</i> is an account of Stagg's extraordinary journey. It describes the dangers he faced on the road, captures the people he met and the landscapes he experienced, offers a unique insight into contemporary faith, and – most movingly – lays bare his struggle to escape the past and walk towards recovery. <br><br>It was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' on publication.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-06-13 |
