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A Journey of Days: Relearning Life's Lessons on the Camino de Santiago

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A Journey of Days: Relearning Life's Lessons on the Camino de Santiago

by Guy Thatcher

General Store Publishing House | June 10, 2008 | Trade Paperback

A Journey of Days: Relearning Life’s Lessons on the Camino de Santiago , by Guy Thatcher, takes us for a 700-kilometre walk along the camino in northern Spain, an age-old pilgrimage route walked by young and old alike for centuries. He walked the camino hoping to discover the reason for the compulsion that drove him there.   This is an elegantly presented, intelligent book. Your goal may not be to walk the camino, as Thatcher has done, but you’ll come away informed, inspired and touched by this beautiful narrative. The real story is the pilgrims met along the way.   This book will be of interest to the boomer generation but also those in mid-career, as they were the ones the author walked with most often. An intergenerational story and an inspiration to all.   The style is so direct that it’s easy to imagine sitting across a small bar table chatting with the author.   Wonderful colour photos complement the text on magazine-quality pages.   The book feels great as you hold it; the cover is a fabulously crafted design.    
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    Erin W.

    Rating: 5/5

    What a journey!

    Erin W.

    4 months ago

    Enjoyed taking the journey along with you through your story. Loved how personal the book was. Felt like you were reading a letter from a friend. Kept reading and reading it was so interesting. When I finished the book I wanted more perhaps Part 2.
    Glad I choose it for my first ebook. Thank you Guy for sharing your journey with us through the written word.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Absolutely Great

    Diana Livshits

    4 months ago

    An amazing journey that captivates and inspires.

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    Rating: 5/5

    El Camino de Santiago

    James Clem

    2 years ago

    In 2003 my wife and I were pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, and walked every step from St. Jean Pied de Port, France to Santiago, Spain. We returned for a second trip in 2005. I purchased "A Journey of Days: Relearning Life's Lessons on the Camino de Santiago" by Guy Thatcher a few days ago and could not put it down. The book was very well written, accurate, funny, honest and truthful, and I enjoyed every page.
    Mr. Thatcher tells his Camino story in a day-to-day format so the reader gets a sense of what it is like on the trail. His description of the Camino de Santiago, places along the trail, people he met, weather, and the everyday experience, brought back many good memories of our trek across northern Spain.
    I would highly recommend "A Journey of Days: Relearning Life's Lessons on the Camino de Santiago" to anyone interested in the Camino de Santiago. If you have done the pilgrimage, you will enjoy revisiting it through this book. If you are thinking about doing the pilgrimage Mr. Thatcher's book is a must read.
    Jim Clem www.ourcamino.com

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    “If you liked The Power of Now, you will love A Journey of Days”.

    Sheldon Rice

    3 years ago

    Having just finished reading Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" I had the good fortune of reading Guy Thatcher's "A Journey of Days".This is an extraordinary book that is a real life example of how the power of NOW (being truly present in the moment) can lead to spiritual enlightenment, renewal of a belief in the goodness in people, and how, when we let go of our ego, we see the truth and find the power and joy of the essence of our being. All that intertwined with a history of the Camino de Santiago.

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A Journey of Days: Relearning Life’s Lessons on the Camino de Santiago , by Guy Thatcher, takes us for a 700-kilometre walk along the camino in northern Spain, an age-old pilgrimage route walked by young and old alike for centuries. He walked the camino hoping to discover the reason for the compulsion that drove him there.   This is an elegantly presented, intelligent book. Your goal may not be to walk the camino, as Thatcher has done, but you’ll come away informed, inspired and touched by this beautiful narrative. The real story is the pilgrims met along the way.   This book will be of interest to the boomer generation but also those in mid-career, as they were the ones the author walked with most often. An intergenerational story and an inspiration to all.   The style is so direct that it’s easy to imagine sitting across a small bar table chatting with the author.   Wonderful colour photos complement the text on magazine-quality pages.   The book feels great as you hold it; the cover is a fabulously crafted design.    

About the Author

Guy Thatcher served in the Canadian regular armed forces from 1955 to 1980 as a tank officer, helicopter pilot, anti-tank missile instructor, and computer analyst, serving in Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Texas, and Alabama, as well as at various bases in Canada. He then pursued a second career for a further twenty-five years as a management consultant, working primarily in the field of facility planning and management. He holds a degree in Computing and Information Systems from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, is a Fellow of the International Facility Management Association and is a lifetime Certified Management Consultant. He developed and taught postgraduate courses in Information Management for Facility Professionals at Michigan State University, delivered worldwide over the Internet. He has written or contributed to several business books and workshop manuals. He continues to teach in the Caribbean, successfully combining work and pleasure.
      He continues to be married to Carroll Thatcher, with whom he has four grown children and one new grandson, clearly the most beautiful baby in the world. For the past seventeen years, he has been a home support volunteer for the Hospice at May Court. He skis, travels as much as he can, gardens, scuba dives (occasionally), reads voraciously--mostly history and science--, square dances, teaches, and plays a truly dreadful game of golf.
      All of this, however, has nothing to do with the walk he took across Spain . . .  or perhaps it has everything to do with the walk he took across Spain. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Trade Paperback

9 x 9 x 12 in

June 10, 2008

General Store Publishing House

English

Canadian Author


1897113994
9781897113998

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