Spanish Steps - Winner of the ITB Buch Award 2009, Reisebuch Pilgern
Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 2005 |
Seiten | 336 |
Format | 12,7 x 19,7 x 1,9 cm |
Gewicht | 266 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0099471949 |
EAN | 9780099471943 |
Bestell-Nr | 09947194EA |
Was passiert, wenn ein Engländer, ausgestattet mit einer großen Portion britischen Humors, sein Herz und die Zügel in die Hand nimmt und sich mit einem französischen Esel auf heiliges spanisches Terrain begibt? Genau, der Esel ist störrisch, der Weg nach Santiago de Compostela lang, und Tim Moore findet in seinem Pilgerführer aus dem 12. Jahrhundert auch nicht immer die passenden Tipps. Dafür findet er etwas anderes: den Weg in sein eigenes Herz.
Kurzbeschreibung:
Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With a donkey.
Klappentext:
Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.
Being larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela.
Over 500 miles of extreme weather and agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist's couch.
'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more substance and the jokes come thick and fast' Irish Times
Rezension:
He is a rare comic talent The Times