Spanish Steps

Tim Moore

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Vintage
01 November 2005

Humour; Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With a donkey.

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.

Being larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela.

Over 500 miles of extreme weather and agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist's couch.

'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more substance and the jokes come thick and fast' Irish Times

By: Tim Moore
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 263g
ISBN: 9780099471943
ISBN 10: 0099471949
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 November 2005
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Moore's writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of French Revolutions and Do Not Pass Go. He lives in west London with his wife and three children.

Reviews for Spanish Steps

""He is a rare comic talent"" The Times ""A very funny writer, oozing with comic ideas"" Daily Mail ""An absolutely cracking idea for a book; it's got history, eccentric characters, personal growth - and plenty of really good jokes"" Time Out ""One of the classier writers of the humorous travel book... A very entertaining read"" Observer ""At last, a travel book that makes you think but also makes you laugh out loud"" Guardian

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