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[QUOTE="sillydoll, post: 113989, member: 8"] Walter Starkie published his classic, THE ROAD TOSANTIAGO in 1957 based on his four journeys along the Camino de Santiago. Much of the bibliography was devoted to Georgiana Goddard King's iconic three part THE WAY OF SAINT JAMES which was published in 1917 which was the result of three years wanderings on foot, by cart, mule, and other conveyance on the pilgrimage roads to Santiago. When Brazilian author Paulo Coelho's book THE PILGRIMAGE came out in 1987 there was a sudden flurry of South American's crossing the Atlantic to Spain in search of their own Master and [metaphorical] swords. After Shirley MacLaine's MY CAMINO was published in 2000, an armada of New Age adherents hit the road in search of their own sented Saints and previous lives in Lemuria. In 2001 husband and wife team David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson published their classic, Camino 'bible' THE PILGRIMAGE ROAD TO SANTIAGO. Their work was inspired by Walter Starkie and they started the first Camino Forum linked to the university website. The couple walked to Santiago in 1974, 1979, 1987 and 1993 accompanying groups of student-pilgrims on academic, medieval study programs. In 1974 they did not meet even one other pilgrim on the road to Compostela. In 1979 the met an elderly Frenchman who was fulfilling a vow made in the Second World War. The German comedian's book I'M OFF THEN in 2006 (based on his 2001 Camino walk) resulted in a 30% increase in German speaking pilgrims. One caustic response on a Camino Forum was that the prolifferation of German males could be attributed to the writer saying that Spanish families sent their nubile, single daughters onto the Camino in search of eligible husbands. Johnnie Walker tells us that 2012 has seen an 80% increase in the number of American pilgrims, as well as substantial increases in the numbers of pilgrims from other English speaking countries. Some of this can be atttributed to the Sheen/Estevez movie THE WAY. 9 pilgrims who will walk with an amaWalkers Camino group next year have cited watching THE WAY as the reason for them wanting to walk a Camino. I hope they will not be disappointed! A number of returning pilgrims, motivated by THE WAY, have expressed their disappointment that the Camino wasn't anything like THE WAY. If THE WAY is your reason for walking a Camino just remember: Each of those characters had a strong, personal reason for walking the Camino. It wasn't because of a book they had read or a movie they had seen. They never got blisters, tendonities, muscle cramps, sun burn, diarrhea etc They didn't have to walk in the rain or the mud They never washed their clothes The never walked past car grave-yards, city dumps or sub-economic inner city suburbs. And - the characters had each other the whole way, through thick and thin. Although you will meet up with diffderent pilgrims, its unusual to stay together for more than a few days at a time. [/QUOTE]
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