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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.94 — 199,208 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,082 ratings — published
The Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.64 — 70,122 ratings — published 1987
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.07 — 884,745 ratings — published 2012
A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago: The Way of St. James (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,028 ratings — published 2006
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,426 ratings — published 2019
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,680 ratings — published 1853
The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.93 — 319 ratings — published 2007
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,017 ratings — published 2012
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,200 ratings — published 1400
A Million Steps (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,100 ratings — published 2013
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,717,334 ratings — published 1988
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,512 ratings — published 2007
Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.66 — 70 ratings — published 2015
Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.68 — 983 ratings — published 1994
Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,754 ratings — published 2023
Pilgrimage: The Great Pilgrim Routes of Britain and Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.27 — 63 ratings — published 2017
Jesus: A Pilgrimage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.52 — 4,048 ratings — published 2014
Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage As a Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.14 — 43 ratings — published 2007
To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.29 — 619 ratings — published 2008
Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.21 — 666 ratings — published 2013
Walking the Camino: A Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.50 — 270 ratings — published 2007
One Thousand Roads to Mecca: (updated with new material)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.14 — 134 ratings — published 1997
Roads to Santiago (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.77 — 995 ratings — published 1992
The Pilgrim's Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.08 — 163,932 ratings — published 1678
Ich bin dann mal weg: Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,252 ratings — published 2006
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground – An Intrepid Woman's Journey Through Six Extraordinary Religious Pilgrimages (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.98 — 231 ratings — published 2003
Walk in a Relaxed Manner: Life Lessons from the Camino (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.14 — 718 ratings — published 2005
Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.78 — 96 ratings — published 2021
The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.56 — 3,516 ratings — published 2000
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,717 ratings — published 1974
Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.02 — 43 ratings — published 2005
Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim: On Foot, Across Europe to Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.55 — 106 ratings — published 2014
Two Steps Forward (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,763 ratings — published 2017
Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.14 — 503 ratings — published 2014
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.28 — 314,687 ratings — published 1989
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,597 ratings — published 2014
The Songlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,704 ratings — published 1987
Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.77 — 82 ratings — published 1998
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,218,755 ratings — published 1996
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.09 — 907,912 ratings — published 1922
To a Mountain in Tibet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,483 ratings — published 2011
On Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.01 — 159 ratings — published 1999
Neon Pilgrim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.05 — 340 ratings — published 2009
Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela (Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.56 — 134 ratings — published 2004
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,715 ratings — published 2001
Fumbling: A Journey of Love, Adventure, and Renewal on the Camino de Santiago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.96 — 313 ratings — published 2004
The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 1994
On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.95 — 264 ratings — published
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pilgrimage)
avg rating 3.93 — 314 ratings — published
“Man, this creature so 'noble in faculty,' moves step by step in a pilgrimage that is destined to bring him only back again to the inanimate state of the stone. From dust we are, and to dust we ultimately return.”
― Love and Will
― Love and Will
“Pilgrimage is premised on the idea that the sacred is not entirely immaterial, but that there is a geography of spiritual power. Pilgrimage walks a delicate line between the spiritual and the material in its emphasis on the story and its setting though the search is for spirituality, it is pursued in terms of the most material details of where the Buddha was born or where Christ died, where the relics are or the holy water flows. Or perhaps it reconciles the spiritual and the material, for to go on pilgrimage is to make the body and its actions express the desires and beliefs of the soul. Pilgrimage unites belief with action, thinking with doing, and it makes sense that this harmony is achieved when the sacred has material presence and location. Protestants, as well as the occasional Buddhist and Jew, have objected to pilgrimages as a kind of icon worship and asserted that the spiritual should be sought within as something wholly immaterial, rather than out in the world.
There is a symbiosis between journey and arrival in Christian pilgrimage, as there is in mountaineering. To travel without arriving would be as incomplete as to arrive without having traveled. To walk there is to earn it, through laboriousness and through the transformation that comes during a journey. Pilgrimages make it possible to move physically, through the exertions of one's body, step by step, toward those intangible spiritual goals that are otherwise so hard to grasp. We are eternally perplexed by how to move toward forgiveness or healing or truth, but we know how to walk from here to there, however arduous the jour ney. Too, we tend to imagine life as a journey, and going on an actual expedition takes hold of that image and makes it concrete, acts it out with the body and the imagination in a world whose geography has become spiritualized. The walker toiling along a road toward some distant place is one of the most compelling and universal images of what it means to be human, depicting the individual as small and solitary in a large world, reliant on the strength of body and will. In pilgrim age, the journey is radiant with hope that arrival at the tangible destination will bring spiritual benefits with it. The pilgrim has achieved a story of his or her ow and in this way too becomes part of the religion made up of stories of travel and transformation.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
There is a symbiosis between journey and arrival in Christian pilgrimage, as there is in mountaineering. To travel without arriving would be as incomplete as to arrive without having traveled. To walk there is to earn it, through laboriousness and through the transformation that comes during a journey. Pilgrimages make it possible to move physically, through the exertions of one's body, step by step, toward those intangible spiritual goals that are otherwise so hard to grasp. We are eternally perplexed by how to move toward forgiveness or healing or truth, but we know how to walk from here to there, however arduous the jour ney. Too, we tend to imagine life as a journey, and going on an actual expedition takes hold of that image and makes it concrete, acts it out with the body and the imagination in a world whose geography has become spiritualized. The walker toiling along a road toward some distant place is one of the most compelling and universal images of what it means to be human, depicting the individual as small and solitary in a large world, reliant on the strength of body and will. In pilgrim age, the journey is radiant with hope that arrival at the tangible destination will bring spiritual benefits with it. The pilgrim has achieved a story of his or her ow and in this way too becomes part of the religion made up of stories of travel and transformation.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking












