DENT & SCRATCH - The Path to Rome

This edition is entirely re-typeset, includes Belloc's 77 original illustrations, and a new foreword by Belloc biographer Joseph Pearce. It is the best edition available anywhere! I vowed a vow there to go to Rome on Pilgrimage and see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved; and I said, “I will walk all the way and take advantage of no wheeled thing...and be present at High Mass in St. Peter’s on the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul.” This story of adventurous pilgrimage rambles through the fields of France, the mountains of Switzerland, and the plains of Italy. Belloc’s own favorite among his books, The Path to Rome recounts a pilgrimage on foot from the author’s birthplace in France to the Eternal City. Along the way he must find shelter, food, and directions. Stopping every few pages for a swig of local wine, his thoughts wander as much as his feet, covering topics as wide ranging as: Devices for Ending Books On Justice in Armies Thoughts on French Folk-Lore The Value of Bak