The Singular Pilgrim

Travels on Sacred Ground

• Author(s): Rosemary Mahoney,
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Pages: 404
• ISBN_13: 9780618446650
  ISBN_10: 0618446656
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs , Religion / Comparative Religion , Religion / History , Religion / Faith , Religion / Pilgrims & Pilgrimages , Self-Help / Personal Growth / General , Travel / Special Interest / Adventure , Travel / Essays & Travelogues , Travel / Special Interest / Family , Travel / Special Interest / Pets , Travel / Special Interest / Religious , Travel / Special Interest / Literary ,

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The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile Camino de Santiago in northern Spain; braving the icy bathwater at Lourdes; rowing alone across the Sea of Galilee to spend a night camped below the Golan Heights; viewing Varanasi, India's holiest city, from a rubber raft on the Ganges; soldiering barefoot through the three-day penitential Catholic pilgrimage on Ireland's Station Island. A fiercely observant traveler and an insightful writer, Mahoney offers a witty and provocative chronicle of her adventures.