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Travel & Pilgrimage Book Reviews
Because Dr. Mary Jo Kelly Wilhelm organizes travel seminars and pilgrimages, she loves to read travel books of personal narratives. Out of her research and reading comes this guide. She only reviews books that she can recommend to you. These are all books that she keeps in her personal library All books can be ordered now, on-line, through amazon.com.

Kelly with her two nephews, Emmett and Brendan, who are regularly receive travel reports from their aunt by picture postcards

The book reviews are listed in the sequence of their review date, with the most recent on top:
12. Little Saint by Hannah Green

    Pilrimage to St. Foy in the heart of France

11. Art of Pilgrimage by Phil Cousineau

    The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred

10. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

    A dangerous crossing of the "Empty Quarter" of the Arabian desert

9. The Silent Traveler in Dublin by C. Yee

    A Chinese artist's view of the Irish City with text and watercolors

8. Hills and the sea by Hilaire Belloc

    A pilgrim's journeys through East Anglia and the Pyrennes

7. The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

    Saga of the first European colony in the Americas

6. The Soul of the Night, An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo

    An Astronomical Journey to the Sky and a Spiritual Journey to God

5. The Savage, My Kinsman by Elisabeth Elliot

    Living with, and Loving, the Amazonian Tribe Who Killed Her Husband

4. The Cloud Forest by Peter Matthiessen

    A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness

3. Long Ago in France by M F K Fisher

A memoir of a three-year interlude in Dijon, Burgundy

2. Spider Woman by Gladys Reichard

A Story of Navajo weavers and chanters

1. Questions of Heaven by Gretel Ehrlich

The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist

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