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[QUOTE="sillydoll, post: 116559, member: 8"] Excellent idea!! If you start this story even earlier, you might find a very different pilgrim passing through the village to the pilgrims that have emerged today! The writers who gave us the 'modern' Camino classics - Georgiana Goddard King's trilogy, Walter Starkie's 'The Road to Santiago' (based on his pre-war and post war travels along the Camino in France and Spain) and even Catherine Gasquoine's book on 'The Story of Santiagio de Compostela" travelled on a very different Camino to the one created in the last 30 years. These writers didn't feel complelled to walk every inch of the way and we read that they explored on foot, horse, donkey, in cars or buses and even took trains when they needed to. And the word 'backpack' and 'albergue' doesn't appear even once in 'The Road to Santiago'!! (There were no pilgrim albergues and no yellow arrows to follow.) Besides a few academics and historians, most people didn't know about the Camino or about its history. Don Elias Valina Sampedro (who is responsible for the reanimation of the Camino as we know it today) wrote in his book ‘Caminos a Compostela’ in 1971. “In the 1970’s there survived only a remote memory of the Jacobean pilgrimage”. In 1974 Edwin Mullins published a book “The Pilgrimage to Santiago”. In it he recounts how it was for a pilgrim on foot in the early 1970’s: “It was more often a question of dropping into village bars and enquiring politely where the old road might be.” In 1972 only 6 pilgrims were awarded the Compostela. I think a book written around a pre-1970s village would make really interesting reading!! [/QUOTE]
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