WALKING THE WAY: A MEDIEVAL QUEST

NY: Wingspan Press. Very Good. 2009. first edition,1p; 10987654321pt line. paperback. 8.8 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION ,clean, solid, bright..***SIGNED BY AUTHOR*** ON TITLE PAGE "To Mark !buen Camino! Neal A. Wiegman" over his name as author on the page. ; BLACK TITLES ON BLUE SKY, OVER GREEN PLAIN, STONE BRIDGE...1X1" photo of author back cover..with biog. ; 338 pages; author's trek along the 500-mile pilgrimage road across northern Spain-called the Way of Saint James or Camino de Santiago-inspired this historical novel about what the journey must have been like during its medieval heyday. Two thorns from Jesus' Crown of Thorns have been stolen from a monastery in the Pyrenees. The quest for these holy relics sends an 18-year-old Basque named Xavier on an odyssey over the length of the Camino. He makes his living as a jongleur, or entertainer, reciting passages from The Song of Roland, The Poem of the Cid, and Beowulf.; Signed by Author .