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On This Holy Island: A modern pilgrimage across Britain

On This Holy Land book jacket

Oliver Smith embarks on an epic adventure across sacred British landscapes – climbing into remote sea caves, sleeping inside Neolithic tombs, scaling forgotten holy mountains and once marooning himself at sea. Following holy roads to churches, cathedrals and standing stones, this evocative and enlightening travelogue explores places prehistoric, pagan and Christian, but also reveals how football stadiums and music festivals have become contemporary places of pilgrimage. 

The routes walked are often ancient, the pilgrims he meets are always modern. But underpinning the book is a timeless truth: that making journeys has always been a way of making meaning. So often, Oliver finds, “the unravelling of a path goes in tandem with the unravelling of the soul.”

Published28 Mar 2024
FormatHardback
Edition1st
Extent256
ISBN9781399409032
ImprintBloomsbury Continuum
Illustrations10 black and white interior photos
Dimensions234 x 153 mm
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

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