The Crossway - Softcover

Stagg, Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509844597 ISBN 13: 9781509844593

Verlag: Picador, 2019

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Winner - Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019.
Shortlisted - Rathbones Folio Prize, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award 2019.

'An extraordinary travelogue, strange and brilliant' - i

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.

The Crossway 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.

It was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' on publication.

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Guy Stagg was born in 1988 and grew up in Paris, Heidelberg, Yorkshire and London. His book, The Crossway, is an account of Guy Stagg’s ten-month walk to Jerusalem. The author sets off from Canterbury on New Year’s Day, telling his friends and family only that he will be home before the year’s end, and was a runner-up for the inaugural Deborah Rogers Foundation Writer’s Award in May 2016.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509844597
• ISBN 13: 9781509844593
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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