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Walking to Canterbury
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“What Jerry Ellis does best is to magically touch the wanderer down deep inside all of us with his eloquent prose.” —Terry C. Johnston, author of Borderlords
“Ellis is the original Shakespearean fool with pithy wisdom” —Daily Mail, London
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Walking to Canterbury is Jerry Ellis’s moving and fascinating account of his own modern pilgrimage [along the real-life route followed by Chaucer’s fictional pilgrims in his Canterybury Tales]. Filled with incredible details about medieval life, Ellis’s tale strikingly juxtaposes the contemporary world he passes through on his long hike with the history that peeks out from behind an ancient stone wall or a church. Carrying everything he needs on his back, Ellis stops at pubs and taverns for food and shelter and trades tales with the truly captivating people he meets along the way, just as the pilgrims of the twelfth century would have done. Embarking on a journey that is spiritual and historical, Ellis reveals the wonders of an ancient trek through modern England toward the ultimate goal: enlightenment. |
