On 2007-09-04 M. Nichols, San Francisco, CA United States wrote: Having read and enjoyed Shirley MacLaine´s ´The Camino´ several years back, I was happy to revisit the pilgrimmage experience in Kathryn Harrison´s ´Road to Santiago.´ Harrison has a graceful command of language that makes this memoir pleasant and easy to read. Apart from style and readability, I´m not sure this book has much to offer. Harrison details three different trips to the road (one solo, one while pregnant, and one with a pre-teen daughter.) All of this is supposed to signify something, but I´m not sure it´s anywhere near as profound as the author hopes. She finishes the path and sees her family ´luminous and exalted and mine.´ Alrighty then. Not exactly the Dalai Lama, this one.. And summed up by saying Good.... Currently Road to Santiago (Directions) has an overall rating of 6 over 10.
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National Geographic claimed In the spring of 1999, Kathryn Harrison set out to walk the centuries-old pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. ´Not a vacation,´ she calls it, ´but a time out of time.´ With a heavy pack, no hotel reservations, and little Spanish, she wanted an experience that would be both physically and psychically demanding. No pain, no gain, she thought, and she had some important things to contemplate. But the pilgrim road was spattered with violets and punctuated by medieval churches and alpine views, and, despite the exhaustion, aching knees, and brutal sun, she was unexpectedly flooded with joy and gratitude for life’s gifts. ´Why do I like this road?´ she writes. ´Why do I love it? What can be the comfort of understanding my footprint as just one among the millions? … While I’m walking I feel myself alive, feel my small life burning brightly.´ Throughout this deeply personal and revealing memoir of her journey, first made alone and later in the company of her daughter, Harrison blends striking images of the route and her fellow pilgrims with reflections on the redemptive power of pilgrimages, mortality, family, the nature of endurance, the past and future, the mystery of friendship. The Road to Santiago is an exquisitely written, courageous, and irresistible portrait of a personal pilgrimage in search of a broader understanding of life and self.
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