By Hape Kerkeling"The English-language debut of an international bestseller about an unlikely pilgrim who dispenses life lessons while hiking through northern Spain.In 2001, Kerkeling—a celebrated German comedian who was suffering from a host of physical, mental and spiritual ailments—decided to embark on the strenuous pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile trek that begins in the French Pyrenees, winds through the Basque country and culminates in the Galician area of northwestern Spain, where Saint James was supposedly interred. The author hoped that the journey would "help me find my way to God and thus to myself." His travel diaries offer amusing, offbeat observations about the trials and tribulations of an overweight, self-described couch potato attempting to hike 12 to 18 miles per day along a rugged trail with a 25-pound backpack slung across his shoulders. "
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