Pilgrimage: Exploring France's Ancient Pilgrim Towns
By G McDougall
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An fully revised and updated Pilgrimage Three explores numerous French towns, each seen as characters growing-up over their extensive histories, their colourful stories written with a vibrant pen, full of life, passion, and an astute and comic eye. Two other stories recall the traveller and pilgrim experience on the Le Puy-en Vajey route and in France's Languedoc region.
Commentators say Pilgrimage is “beautiful poetic writing", with “inspired metaphor, written “to a breathless walking rhythm”.
The judge of the Peter Cowan Short Story Prize said of one pilgrimage story: it’s 'An epic evocation of place. Yes, this story proves that you can produce an epic in a mere 488 words! Like all good fiction, perhaps, this piece is ultimately an investigation into how time passes and works. Energetic, almost punch-drunk writing (I mean that as a complement!): "Let the dogs and big ideas fight over the bones behind the Calle mayor". Fabulous!
G McDougall
The Author was winner of the Art-In-Unusual-Places Grant (2022), a Feature Poet at the Sydney Writers Festival (2018), Balmain Institute founder and President (2007-14), and winner, Ros Spenser Short Story Prize with Patting The Dog (2017). He is author of over thirty books, including six novels, fourteen poetry, travel and short stories, and numerous photo books. Founder of Pamela Press, he is published in international magazines, with photos exhibited in eleven countries.The Author is the Camino de Santiago's most prolific author with ten eBooks and several paperbacks. He has extensive travel and teaching experience, and won Australian ecotourism, community project and literary prizes and grants. He co-created an Official NSW Bicentennial Project, the 250 km 'Great North Walk'. After many years managing Great Australian Walks, he refocused on photography, painting and storytelling, with seven novels.'Belonging' is a fictional-biography of a 'black doctor' in colonial Australia. 'Starts With C' is a murder mystery where we don't who is the murder, who has been murdered, and who's telling the story. The third novel is the acclaimed 'Knowing Simone' set in Victor Hugo's France. 'Blacksmith and Canon' is volume one of the series '1503'. Inheritance is the second volume, with volumes 3 and 4 due in 2025. In between, he wrote, Sea Voices, inspired by a WW2 event in the Pacific.Recent Awards include; Winner, Art-in-Usually-Places Grant, 2022, Wollongong City; Winner, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, with 'Patting the Dog', Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize; Second, Peter Cowan Poetry Prize, and Feature Poet in the Sydney Writers festival. Included in numerous poetry and short story anthologies, Garry was Balmain Institute's president for seven years, a member of 'That Authors Collective' and 'Diverse' poetry group. He lives south of Sydney in the great and beautiful Illawarra.
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Pilgrimage - G McDougall
P i l g r i m a g e
Exploring the Ancient Towns of France
Book Three
Garry McDougall
Copyright 2014
Second Edition, 2018
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Table of Contents
What is Pilgrimage?
Map of The Ways to Santiago de Compostela
Introduction
Chapter 1 Stolen Conques
After Estiang, Averyon, France
Chapter 2 Tribute to Decazeville
On the Camino prior to Figaec, Lot, France.
Two versions.
Chapter 3 From Charles De Gaulle to Pont St Espirit
or 'Rite of Spring', Rhone Valley, France
Chapter 4 And Merriment Tonight
Pont de St Espirit, Languedoc, France
Chapter 5 Snippets: Walking from Espalion to Moissac
Chapter 6 Really Alarming
Approaching Cahor
Chapter 7 St Martin d'Ardeche Encounter
Paye Ardeche, France
Chapter 8 Well on the Way
Chapter 9 The Geography of Saints
Paye Ardeche, France
Chapter 10 The Making of St Martin
Paye Ardeche, France
Further Information
List of Photographs
Further web links and videos
'In the twenty-first Century, many parts of France remain to be discovered.'
Graham Robb, The Discovery of France
P i l g r i m a g e
1. A journey to a sacred place or shrine.
2. A long journey or search, especially one of exalted purpose or moral significance.
My definition: The journey into, the journey along, the journey through, and the journey to.
Pilgrim Ways to Santiago de Compostela
France, Spain and Portugal’s many Caminos de Santiago. Camino Frances is shown as a thick line.
Introduction to Pilgrimage Three
Exploring the Ancient and Pilgrim Towns of France
Here are travel tales focusing on town experiences of and in intriguing France - medieval Conques and industrial Decazeville in the French Aveyron, St Martin and Pont St Espirit in the Languedoc/Ardeche, and more. Some areon the Le Puy-en-Valey pilgrimage route, the others in and around Pont St Espirit. Together with Encounter at St Martin d'Ardeche, they are historical, cultural and recreational crossroads.
As usual, these stories are inspired and inspiring. They delight in wondrous words and their associations, the 'stories' sourced from real and intense experiences. Photographs and added web links give you room for your own experiences, now and in the future. Pilgrimage Three presents French pilgrimage towns with flair, scepticism, affection, absurdity and humour; in spirit of Gore Vidal’s
‘Style is knowing who you are, what you have to say, and not giving a damn.’
Pilgrimage is for all tourists, travellers, pilgrims, stay-at-Homer readers and pilgrims-to-be. Your tales can be read sipping a cold drink, lying on a beach, sitting in the train, or eating delicious tapas in a café by the Camino. Read your stories aloud or in silence, on a bus or in a plane, or pausing by a stream in Conques, Figeac or Moissac. Even the stay-at-homers (including myself sometimes), will relish these tales of frightening intensity for their rich, ripe ingredients, tales with flavours designed to last and last.
Travelers- don’t be slaves to the iconic Paris' Champs Elysees, Sydney's Opera Houses or the World’s tallest buildings, and the allure of the big cities of New York, Paris, London, Hong Kong or Sydney. You will miss all that ‘could be, in those little gems of incident, architecture and ornament