Sacred Roads

by Shrady, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780060671112
• ISBN10: 0060671114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Harper San Francisco

Summary

How many of us have longed to travel the same roads that Jesus traveled? To walk in the footsteps of the Buddha? In Sacred Roads, Nicholas Shrady journeys to some of the most holy destinations in the world, and in his recollections we can see the beginnings of our own spiritual voyage.

Author Biography

Nicholas Shrady's work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Travel and Leisure, Town and Country, Architectural Digest, Forbes, and many other publications. He was born and raised in Connecticut. He received his degree in philosophy from Georgetown University in 1981 and has lived in Barcelona, Spain, for the past fifteen years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
A Christmas With the Virgin in Bosnia	p. 9
Meeting Mother Ganges	p. 53
In the Footsteps of the Buddha	p. 105
The Way of St. James	p. 157
A Sometimes Holy Land	p. 205
To Rumi's Tomb	p. 253
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