| A Pedal Pilgrimage In the Nordics Contributor(s): Cormican, Mel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1542977940 ISBN-13: 9781542977944 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Cycling |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.62 lbs) 206 pages |
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| Publisher Description: As with anyone that has been bitten by the biking bug, I can't tell you exactly why I made plans to cycle from Oslo to Helsinki. All I can tell you was that after my other cycling tours were over, the urge was there. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." Oscar Wilde wrote. "Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." I wanted to go on a kind of reflective journey to make sense of it all, to take stock as it were. I wanted this to be a different kind of cycling trip; not a bicycle tour -tours are for tourists-but a "pedalling pilgrimage". And where better to go on this kind of pilgrimage but the least religious spot in the Western hemisphere: Norway, Sweden and Finland. To misquote Sinatra: if I can meet God there, I can meet God anywhere. As a follow up to his first book "To St Petersburg With Love", author Mel Cormican is on a quest for a spiritual enlightenment and awakening in the Nordics. Can he make sense of his own particular journey in the context of the religious and philosophical history of Europe? |