Following the Milky Way: A Pilgrimage Across Spain

by Ellen O. Feinberg

Join Ellen Feinberg - and millions of others - on a pilgrimage across Spain. Following the Milky Way is an account of her 500-mile-long journey on foot on the Camino de Santiago, the thousand-year-old pilgrimage road that stretches from the French Pyrenees across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela - a vivid, personal memoir of a life-changing adventure, of chance encounters, unforeseen dangers, and unexpected pleasures.

307 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 1989

Reviews

[Mary Germain · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found the author a bit whiney and very repetitive with the "authentic" or "real" Camino being discussed so much. Obviously, it was a big point for her. It's important to note that the author's walk took place in 1982 with the book being published in 1989. So, it is rather historic in today's blog world. I was reading about the author's convertible backpack (it could be a backpack and it could be luggage) which sounds like something that I traveled through Europe with in the 1980s. These packs were definitely designed for short distance walking and hiking, not for the long distance hiking of the Camino. It is always amazing to read about people who start an endeavor like this without ever preparing physically for it. What were they thinking?