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To Be a Pilgrim
He who would valiant be
'Gainst all disaster
Let him in constancy
Follow the Master.
There's no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.
(English hymn of 1906, based on John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress)
What inspires us to make pilgrimages? This is what was foremost in my mind as I read Caroline Alexander's lyrical travel memoir. Alexander follows ostensibly in the footsteps of famed African explorer Mary Kingsley, but along the way her fellow trav ...more
He who would valiant be
'Gainst all disaster
Let him in constancy
Follow the Master.
There's no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.
(English hymn of 1906, based on John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress)
What inspires us to make pilgrimages? This is what was foremost in my mind as I read Caroline Alexander's lyrical travel memoir. Alexander follows ostensibly in the footsteps of famed African explorer Mary Kingsley, but along the way her fellow trav ...more
This seemed a little slow and wondering to me. Usually that's okay in a travel book, but somehow this writer never seemed to resolve ANYTHING, which got a little boring after a while. Perhaps I was influenced by having read Kingsley's wonderfully witty narrative first.
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