Poor Knights: A Trek through the Balkans
A Quaker peace pilgrim walking to the Middle East prays for a traveling companion, and his prayer is answered when he teams up with a countercultural young woman whose presence challenges his own rigid sense of purpose. This memoir recounts the unlikely pair's journey from idyllic, late-summer Slovenia, through the war-scarred but scenic roads of Bosnia, to the snow-covered Balkans of Bulgaria. As the two make their way on foot they find themselves camping by mine-infested woods or in abandoned houses, sharing rakija with the locals or being set upon by villagers, lending each other support or being hard-pressed to cope with each other's emotional baggage. When weather conditions deteriorate they find themselves ill-equipped for the climb into the frozen Balkans, where they are each forced to make difficult decisions.
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Poor Knights: A Trek through the Balkans
A Quaker peace pilgrim walking to the Middle East prays for a traveling companion, and his prayer is answered when he teams up with a countercultural young woman whose presence challenges his own rigid sense of purpose. This memoir recounts the unlikely pair's journey from idyllic, late-summer Slovenia, through the war-scarred but scenic roads of Bosnia, to the snow-covered Balkans of Bulgaria. As the two make their way on foot they find themselves camping by mine-infested woods or in abandoned houses, sharing rakija with the locals or being set upon by villagers, lending each other support or being hard-pressed to cope with each other's emotional baggage. When weather conditions deteriorate they find themselves ill-equipped for the climb into the frozen Balkans, where they are each forced to make difficult decisions.
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Poor Knights: A Trek through the Balkans

Poor Knights: A Trek through the Balkans

by Kenneth Schroeder
Poor Knights: A Trek through the Balkans

Poor Knights: A Trek through the Balkans

by Kenneth Schroeder

Overview

A Quaker peace pilgrim walking to the Middle East prays for a traveling companion, and his prayer is answered when he teams up with a countercultural young woman whose presence challenges his own rigid sense of purpose. This memoir recounts the unlikely pair's journey from idyllic, late-summer Slovenia, through the war-scarred but scenic roads of Bosnia, to the snow-covered Balkans of Bulgaria. As the two make their way on foot they find themselves camping by mine-infested woods or in abandoned houses, sharing rakija with the locals or being set upon by villagers, lending each other support or being hard-pressed to cope with each other's emotional baggage. When weather conditions deteriorate they find themselves ill-equipped for the climb into the frozen Balkans, where they are each forced to make difficult decisions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781505587067
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 01/11/2015
Series: Down to Egypt
Pages: 358
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.74(d)
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