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The time-honored tradition of walking a pilgrim path, such as the Camino which stretches from France across Northern Spain, or going to find oneself at a sacred site like Machu Picchu in Peru, is enjoying a renewed popularity around the world and across different faith traditions. Why is this the case in a world that in many places is self-avowedly ever more skeptical, secular and scientific, with formal religious affiliation in steep decline? Some...

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion....

After losing both her mother and her daughter in the Japanese tsunami of March 2011, Yui continues on, alone with her grief, but when she hears about a man with an old disused telephone booth in his garden where those who have lost loved ones can speak to them and start to come to terms with their grief, Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone booth.

Irreverent, moving, and thought-provoking, Lewis-Kraus riffs on the perpetualwar between discipline and desire, and its attendant casualties. Across threepilgrimages and many hundreds of miles, he completes an idiosyncratic odysseyto the heart of a family mystery.

Retraces some of the world's most ancient, meaningful and challenging religious pilgrimages. Viewers travel alongisde contemporary seekers as they explore breathaking locations, fascinating history, and ancient religious traditions.

At the Tabard Inn, thrity travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time, and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their return.

Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and "virtuosic" (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of Christianity. "What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts. Moved by his mother's death and his...

Che Milan's life is falling apart. Not only has her longtime lover abruptly dumped her, but her eccentric, demanding mother has recently died. When an urn of ashes arrives, along with a note reminding Che of a half-forgotten promise to take her mother to Canterbury, Che finds herself reluctantly undertaking a pilgrimage. Within days she joins a group of women who are walking the sixty miles from London to the shrine of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral....

A group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a dangerous Irish landscape in thirteenth century Ireland.

"Share the excitement of Hajj from the eyes of a little boy as he tells his friends about his pilgrimage to Makkah. Join him as he explores the sights, sounds and experiences of the once-in-a-lifetime journey, from the moment he sits on the plane to having his hair shaved off at the end"--Provided by publisher.