Part travel, part history, part autobiography, The Road to Santiago describes Walter Starkie's pilgrimages to St James of Compostella - accompanied often...
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Part travel, part history, part autobiography, The Road to Santiago describes Walter Starkie's pilgrimages to St James of Compostella - accompanied often by the music of his fiddle. A cross between a leprechaun and a miniature Falstaff, he writes charmingly, learnedly and diffusely taking the reader - as only an Irishman can - on a will-o'-the wisp journey, absorbing on his way the history of the great shrine, how the cuit of the saint arose, and the folklore attached to pilgrims and the pilgrim roads.