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Cargando... Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago (2004)por Tim Moore
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found the “I’m too stupid to tie a knot thing“ tough to stomach, but once we got adjusted to it, the story was one I was happy to be along for. In the end, he was a sympathetic character but I found myself drawn in by. ( ) I've been a fan of Moore since the "Frost on my mustache" days and knew I would be in for a humorous time reading "Spanish Steps", and I was right. Moore takes a donkey named Shinto for a trek along the Santiago Compostella, the famous pilgrim trek across Spain. While we hope that Shinto wasn't mistreated, we get a history of the trek, the area and we meet the fellow pilgrims making their way to Santiago, including an Australian who, completely unsurprisingly, drank a lot. My only two complaints about this book are that I found it a bit difficult to keep all the pilgrims he met straight and I was slightly disappointed that there were no pictures of his trip included in the book, seeing as he mentioned within the book several memorable pictures that he took. I particularly wanted to see him and Shinto together. Otherwise, I thought it was hilarious and very well-written. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Bill Bryson’sA Walk in the WoodsmeetsMonty Python and the Holy Grail. With a donkey. Being larger than a cat, the donkey falls into that category of animal that Tim Moore is at least slightly scared of. Yet, intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and strangely committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela. Nuzzling businessmen at a city-centre zebra crossing, or shuffling after some policewomen across a broiled and lonely plain, the pair bring a smile to every local face. Over 500 miles of extreme weather, agonizing bestial sloth and triple-bunk dormitories, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist’s couch. Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational,Spanish Stepsis the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn’t really want to. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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