On Foot to the End of the World (Armchair Traveller) - Hardcover

Rene Freund was born in 1967 in Vienna. He is currently living in the Austrian Salzkammergut and has worked as a journalist, translator and dramatic producer. He has been a freelance author since 1990 and written several books on Austria, travel and occultism.

'All those who have walked to Santiago will find, in Freund's book, a perfect evocation of The Way; all those who have not will surely find themselves yearning to experience it at first hand' The Independent 'Rene Freund's account of his 1,138km walk to Santiago de Compostela conveys the excitement and anxieties of the pilgrim, coloured with tales of hospitality that echo Patrick Leigh Fermor's walk to Constantinople between the wars. There is something of Chaucer, too, in his evocation of that singular bond among foot travellers. Despite the physical and psychological challenges, or perhaps because of them, he asserts that "Walking is the form of travel most suited in pace to perception. You measure the world step by step.' The Times Literary Supplement