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This is a guidebook that will help you understand and appreciate Spanish idiosyncrasy. It provides insider insight and information about the Camino: where you are walking, why you are looking at things, what you are eating and how to make the most of your experience.

This comprehensive guidebook to the Camino de Santiago contains all the information needed by modern-day pilgrims wishing to walk the sacred Way of St. James.

If you enjoyed Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, this feels like the natural sequel—a well-told comic misadventure with a history lesson woven in for good measure.

In this wonderful book Father Codd brilliantly captures for us the essence of pilgrimage. He is a candid and engaging guide to the physical realities involved. More than that, though, he reveals the interior journey, equally difficult and equally rewarding.

A Million Steps climbs over the high meadows of the Pyrenees, quests through the unceasing wind of the Meseta, and dances in the rains of Galicia. While following the yellow arrows that mark the route, Koontz also navigates through his personal history of addiction, recovery, and love.

Combines extraordinary breadth of scholarship with the romantic insights and picaresque experiments of a born story-teller.” –

Overweight, overworked, and disenchanted, Kerkeling was an unlikely candidate to make the arduous pilgrimage across the Pyrenees to the Spanish shrine of St. James, a 1,200-year-old journey undertaken by nearly 100,000 people every year. But he decided to get off the couch and do it anyway.