The Road to Canterbury - a modern pilgrimage ... walking the Pilgrims Way with Shirley du Boulay
The Road to Canterbury is the record of Shirley du Boulay's walk along the 130 mile Pilgrims' Way. Beginning at Winchester, the ancient capital of Wessex, she follows in the footsteps of the millions of medieval pilgrims who journeyed to Canterbury Cathedral and its shrine to the martyr St Thomas Becket.
Along the way she finds much to remind her of the countryside and monuments that witnessed the great age of pilgrimage. There are the ancient churches at which the pilgrims would have prayed. There are monasteries, living and dead, at which they would have stayed. There are also reminders of an older past - the sacred wells, the standing stones, the echoes of the mythical England of King Arthur.
Much, however, has changed. As Shirley du Boulay walks through car-ridden Home Counties suburbia, she is led to reflect upon the relevance of pilgrimage today. Does its significance lie more in the journey or the arrival? How does the outer journey reflect the inner journey? Are present-day journeys to the graves of pop stars part of the same experience?
Both a travel book and a series of fascinating meditations upon spirituality in the contemporary world, The Road to Canterbury is a worthy successor to Hilaire Belloc's legendary The Old Road. (Source: dust jacket hardcover book)
SHIRLEY DU BOULAY is the biographer of Desmond Tutu, Cicely Saunders and St Teresa of Avila and was formerly a producer for BBC Television. She was married to the late John Harriott and lives in Oxford.
Jacket illustration by Gary Embury
Back cover: Shirley du Boulay walks the Pilgrims' Way (Source: dust jacket hardcover book)
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