Eleanor Munro

From the Preface:

"Pilgrimage is a global enterprise of deep antiquity and powerful psychological appeal. It draws multitudes to riverbanks, to mountain peaks and lonely desert shrines. Sunrise, moonrise, and star-rise, equinox and solstice, and the arrivals in their stations of the planets are its timekeepers. It could even be argued that going on pilgrimage is...one of the few univsersally shared human ritual practices, and that it began in the same surge of evoluion that brought about humanity's self-conscious awareness of the world."