Recommended Reading

	The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Guide by David Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson A detailed historical narrative describing architecture, history, and sites in each town along the Francés Route.
	A Journey to the West, The Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Pilgrim from Bologna to Santiago de Compostela by Domenico Laffi, translated by James Hall, 1998. Colorful 17th-c. pilgrim account of the journey from an Italian perspective.
	The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela edited by William Melczer, 2008. Translation of the 12-c. Codex Calixtinus with scholarly commentary. (e-version available)
	Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain by Jack Hitt, 2005. A few of the anecdotes from this book are in the 2011 film The Way. (e-version available)
	The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago by Arthur Boers, 2007.
	The Way (film) directed by Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen Martin Sheen plays a homebody optometrist whose adventurous son dies while walking the Camino de Santiago. Sheen comes to recover the body and ends up walking the route in his son’s place and meeting a motley crew of unlikely new-found friends.
	I’m Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling Memoir by a famous German comedian
	The Camino by Shirley Maclaine
	The Pilgrimage by Paolo Coelho A mystical autobiography of Coelho’s walk on the Camino Francés, a classic!