On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain by Oliver Smith Groundswell Speaker 2024

On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain by Oliver Smith Groundswell Speaker 2024A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Acclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith sets out to radically reframe our idea of pilgrimage in Britain by retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journeys in the depths of Ice Age to new pilgrimages of the 21st century. He embarks on an epic adventure across sacred British landscapes climbing into remote sea caves, sleeping inside Neolithic tombs, scaling forgotten holy mountains

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no woman is safe

and stories that will determine a new one

HardbackPublication: 13 Sept 2019

a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter

revealing the courage it takes to stand up to monsters

and the great artists of the Dutch Golden Age

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destined to sit in the pantheon of classic books on writing