The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete (Armchair Traveller) - Softcover

Somerville, Christopher

 
9781907973345: The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete (Armchair Traveller)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1907973346 ISBN 13: 9781907973345
Verlag: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus, 2012

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For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge, with no mobile phone or other technological aids. The only plan for his journey was to begin in the East at Easter and finish at Whitsun in the extreme West, at the Monastery of the Golden Step, whose gold step, legend says, can only be seen by those who have purged themselves into purity. During his 300-mile walk, he tackled four mountain ranges, high slopes and the numerous gorges of the West. Speaking only basic Greek and trying to follow a poorly way-marked path, he had to rely on his own instincts when climbing mountain passes and crossing high plateaux, farming and shepherding country, where villages are scarce and each night's accommodation was uncertain. He saw a Crete few ever encounter.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Christopher Somerville is a writer, journalist and presenter. He was Walking Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph for 15 years. He is the author of Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places and Somerville’s 100 Best Walks.


Christopher Somerville is a writer, journalist and TV presenter. He was Walking Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph for 15 years. He is the author of Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places (Penguin), Coast (BBC Books), Somerville’s 100 Best Walks (Armchair Traveller), Never Eat Shredded Wheat: The Geography We’ve Lost and How to Find it Again (Hodder & Stoughton) and Walking in Ireland: 50 Walks Through the Heart and Soul of Ireland (Ebury).

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Verlag
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1907973346
ISBN 13 
9781907973345
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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