The Path of Peace

Author: Anthony Seldon

Title: The Path of Peace

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 368

Release Date: 0000-00-00

Details: "A journey of self-discovery and a pilgrimage of peace... A remarkable book by a remarkable man." Michael Morpurgo Without a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Anthony Seldon set out on a 35-day pilgrimage from the French-Swiss border to the English Channel. The route of his 1,000 kilometre journey was inspired by a young British soldier of the First World War, Alexander Douglas Gillespie, who dreamed of creating a 'Via Sacra' that the men, women and children of Europe could walk to honour the fallen. Tragically, Gillespie was killed in action, his vision forgotten for a hundred years, until a chance discovery in the archive of one of England's oldest schools galvanised Anthony into seeing the Via Sacra permanently established. Tracing the historic route of the Western Front, he traversed some of Europe's most beautiful and evocative scenery, from the Vosges, Argonne and Champagne to the haunting trenches of Arras, the Somme and Ypres. Along the way, he wrestled heat exhaustion, dog bites and blisters as well as a deeper search for inner peace and renewed purpose.

EAN: 9781838957421

Package Dimensions: Height: 7.79526 inches, Length: 5.07873 inches, Weight: 0.73193470984 pounds, Width: 1.02362 inches