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Advance praise for On the Road with Francis of Assisi<br><br> The marvelous and moving story of Francis of Assisi comes to life in this thoroughly engaging and evocative book. The actual towns and churches produce a map of a journey you would give anything to make, in the saint's very footsteps. The book is a pleasure from beginning to end. <br>-James Salter, author of Last Night <br><br> This entertaining and enlightening biographical travelogue describes vividly Francis of Assisi's growth from a wild and spoiled youth to a selfless itinerant preacher, passionate defender of the poor, and lover of all living things, who became one of the most beloved of religious figures, even among nonbelievers. <br>-Mario Cuomo<br><br> In retracing the travels of the medieval saint who rattled all of Christendom, Linda Bird Francke has marvelously woven together the realities of the thirteenth century with those of the twenty-first in a way that will delight and inform readers, whether they are tramping the hill towns of Umbria or dreaming at home in their armchairs. <br>-Peter Steinfels, co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America <br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.
