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The book of wanderings : a mother-daughter pilgrimage / Kimberly Meyer.

by Meyer, Kimberly.

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Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

Meyer, Kimberly -- Travel.

Meyer, Ellie -- Travel.

Fabri, Felix, 1441 or 1442-1502 -- Travel.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Voyages and travels.

Mothers and daughters -- Biography.

Venice (Italy) -- Description and travel.

Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Description and travel.

Palestine -- Description and travel.

Sinai (Egypt) -- Description and travel.

9780316251211 (hc.)

0316251216 (hc.)

x, 354 p. : col. ill., map ; 25 cm.

Col. ill. on endpapers.

I. Genesis : New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Frankfurt, Ulm. In the chapel of miraculous healing ; Pilgrims and strangers ; Departure from home, wherever that may be -- II. Illustrations of the unseen world : Venice. Imago Mundi ; The body is such a strange home ; In the pause between two eternities -- III. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus : Dalmatian Coast, Greece, Cyprus. In the world as at sea ; Our Lady of Medjugorje ; Landscape without divinity ; Putting the leaves in order -- IV. Omphalos : Holy Land. In the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher ; On the Jericho Road ; A brief for the defense ; The Way ; Looking for the Field of Damascus ; The Pools of Bethesda -- V. Into the void : Sinai Desert. Prelude to the wilderness ; What the desert said ; Translations ; Revelation ; The People of the Garden -- VI. Paradise, wherever that may be : Cairo, Alexandria. Leviathan ; The place of the cure of the soul -- Epilogue : Home. The kingdom within you.

To a mother and daughter on an illuminating pilgrimage, this is what the desert said: Carry only what you need. Burn what can't be saved. Leave the remnants as an offering. When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years, both mother and daughter were haunted by how Ellie came into being--Kimberly through a restless ache for the world beyond, Ellie through a fear of abandonment. Longing to bond with Ellie, now a college student, and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly sets off with her daughter on a quest for meaning across the globe. Leaving behind the rhythms of ordinary life in Houston, Texas, they dedicate a summer to retracing the footsteps of Felix Fabri, a medieval Dominican friar whose written account of his travels resonates with Kimberly. Their mother-daughter pilgrimage takes them to exotic destinations infused with mystery, spirituality, and rich history--from Venice to the Mediterranean through Greece and partitioned Cyprus, to Israel and across the Sinai Desert with Bedouin guides, to the Palestinian territories and to Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. The Book of Wanderings tells the story of Kimberly and Ellie's journey, and of the intimate, lasting bond they forge along the way. A meditation on stripping away the distractions, on simplicity, on how to live, this is a vibrant memoir with the power to both transport readers to far-off lands and to bring them in closer connection with themselves. It will appeal to anyone who has contemplated the road not taken, who has experienced the gnawing feeling that there is something more, who has faced the void--of offspring leaving, of mortality looming, of searching for someplace that feels, finally, like home.

Travel memoirs.

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