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A Maverick Pilgrim Way: A Kiwi hikes the Old World's Trails Kindle Edition

by Mary Jane Walker (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A Maverick Pilgrim Way is more than a travel guide. It’s a self-help guide to hiking, to overcome grief.


In her Maverick fashion, Mary Jane walked for years after her mother died. She trekked along the winding ancient roads of Old-World pilgrims, including parts of the Camino de Santiago or St James's Way, the West Highland Way, and climbed Mt Blanc, to name a few. Along the way she came to St Petersburg with its golden palaces, which is her favourite city in Europe.

Pilgrim ways aren’t just for the religious. People of all ages and walks of life come to hike them. She stayed with Russian Jews in Barcelona, so learnt no Spanish! She stayed on a commune just outside of Donostia / San Sebastian run by a religious group called the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who tried to convert her. She loved Basque food and stayed in an Airbnb where the guy grew marijuana in his lounge.


She was amazed by the vineyards and weird hollow mountains of Cappadocia. In Russia, she got invited to a Pussy Riot punk rock party in St Petersburg and was followed around by internal security spies.


With 581 photos, maps and other images.

BY THE AUTHOR OF A MAVERICK NEW ZEALAND WAY, FINALIST IN THE TRAVEL CATEGORY, INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS, 2018.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B075P35ZF1
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ A Maverick Traveller Ltd (September 15, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 35251 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 451 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0473408295
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Mary Jane Walker

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When I was twenty, I left New Zealand for five years. My first book, 'A Maverick Traveller', begins with an epic voyage on a Chinese junk named La Dame de Canton, and then goes on to describe my adventures on land.

I travel with no real plans and decide where to go and what to see next when I get there. I like to explore the culture and history of places that are off the beaten track as well as places that are well known, and to talk to the local people.

Whether it's meeting the rapper 50 Cent before he was famous at a back-packers, seeing Putin in Red Square, being followed around as a suspicious character by intelligence services and police in Russia, Turkey and the USA, or kicking a US nuclear submarine in New Zealand, I share my unique stories and experiences.

I've been everywhere, man — so read my books! And check out my blog posts too, now 300 in total on my website a-maverick.com and on the virtual publication A Maverick Traveller, on medium.com.

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Lew Harrison.
5.0 out of 5 stars great writing
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2019
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for a traveler this hits home. Many events or location i recall and judge to bee true and authentic. Briogs back many memories anat was in a way like retraaveling again. Many individual could benif from these pages and travel in your mind.. Thanks for the great information.
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kazoua vang
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2019
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I only hesitate to write this review because my words will undoubtedly fall short of the impact this book had on me and the impact it can make in others.
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Rachel Jansen-Cable
5.0 out of 5 stars MaryJane has really outdone harself this time with her best book ever
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2017
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Wow , MaryJane has really outdone harself this time with her best book ever . Riverting read with lots of laughs and intresting facts , you just can't put it down 😃
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Jane V. Blanchard
4.0 out of 5 stars Unorthodox insights into the expansive European pilgrim routes
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2019
In A Maverick Pilgrim Way, Mary Jane Walker explores many of the ancient European pilgrim routes. She discusses the history of the routes and people she met. With close to 600 photos and maps, this nonfiction gives the armchair reader a chance to visualize the areas she explored.

This maverick pilgrim is a true “unorthodox and independent-minded person.” Being so is in her blood and she is proud of it. Spontaneous and full of wanderlust she follows her heart as she travels.

Not only does she explore the more common pilgrimages such as the Camino de Santiago in Spain, but she also visits Greece, Turkey, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Italy, Russia, and Eastern Europe. From the book, the reader gets an understanding of the similarities and the differences between countries, peoples, and beliefs.

If you enjoy travel books that explain the bits of history and culture, you will enjoy A Maverick Pilgrim Way.
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Kip Krenz
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019
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A great book! Made me feel like I was there.
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Mared
4.0 out of 5 stars Jolly interesting
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2017
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Written in a pleasant friendly style so that you painlessly absorb the historical and cultural titbits, this book covers an amazing range of countries. I read the book on a black-and-white Kindle, but I looked at the colour photographs on my computer – there were lots of striking snaps of both the landscape and the cities. I especially liked those of buildings in Barcelona and Moscow.

There are many pilgrim trails and pilgrim sites in Europe; while most old-time pilgrims had a definite destination and a commitment to complete, our traveller does a bit here and a bit there, taking time out to see other sights, absorb the culture and climb mountains, making for an interesting variety. It was fascinating to read about public nudity in Germany, Vikings in Ireland and democratic art in Russia. I also found the author’s cheerful attitude to adventure inspiring.
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R. Russell Bittner
5.0 out of 5 stars “The world’s fascination with religion is quite amazing ...” (p. 360)
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019
A MAVERICK PILGRIM WAY: GET TO KNOW THE OLD WORLD ONE STEP AT A TIME is, like its companion books by the same author, a treasure trove. As Mary Jane says almost from the outset, “the meaning of ‘maverick’ is someone who doesn’t follow the crowd. To me, it’s a symbol of being independent; a term and way of life I live by.”

Does she fulfill this definition of ‘maverick?’ Yes, indeed! And we (readers) are the chief beneficiaries of her fulfillment.

“Whichever way my feet ended up taking me – north, south, east or west – I can look back now and see (and know) that I have racked up a fair bit of mileage on the Camino de Europa and I am lucky to have gone as far as I have. I imagine how difficult it would have been for pilgrims during the Middle Ages and the like” (p. 361).

Thank you, Mary Jane. You have done all of us—wanderers and “sedentarians” alike—a tremendous service.

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