Oliver Smith is an acclaimed travel writer working mostly for the Financial Times, The Times and Outside Magazine in the USA. For 10 years he worked for Lonely Planet Magazine. During his time there he won Travel Writer of the Year at the Travel Media Awards, was AITO Travel Writer of the Year on three occasions, and was nominated for PPA Writer of the Year. On This Holy Island is his first book with Bloomsbury Continuum.
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A lyrical and insightful narrative that presents a new approach to the idea of pilgrimage, traversing paths both ancient and modern. Retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journeys in the depths of Ice Age to new pilgrimag... SEE MORE