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The Camino de Santiago is a path that has been followed by pilgrims since time immemorial, and The Way of a Thousand Arrows tells the story of one family’s journey along this path. An Australian family from the suburbs of Sydney decide to walk the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St James), an ancient pilgrim path which runs across the north of Spain’s rich and varied provinces.

Beginning in Pamplona, famous for its bull run, they trace the steps of the pilgrims through the centuries, eventually coming to stand beneath the towers of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where the body of the apostle James is interred, then on to Finisterre (the end of the earth).

Walking 450 kilometres in only 22 days, with no plan and just a path to follow, reveals more than just a history lesson, and forces the family to face not only the rigours of the journey but their own courage, discipline and determination.

This book is about those lessons, the lessons of the path as seen through the eyes of a modern family, a normal, everyday Australian family from Sydney, all members of the human race, the same race that walked the path centuries earlier.

The Way of a Thousand Arrows is a journey of discovery, a coming home.