Travels with My Donkey by Tim Moore

Travels with My Donkey by Tim Moore

Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain's indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto as his companion. Armed only with a twelfth-century handbook to the route and expert advice on donkey management from Robert Louis Stevenson, Moore and his four-legged companion travel the ancient five-hundred-mile route from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, on the French side of the Pyrenees, to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela which houses the remains of Spain's patron saint, St. James.

Over sun-scorched highways, precipitous bridges, dirt paths shaded by leafy trees, and vineyards occasionally lashed by downpours, Moore and Shinto pass through some of northern Spain's oldest towns and cities in colorful company. Clearly more interested in Shinto than in Moore, their fellow walkers are an assortment of devout Christian pilgrims, New Age--spirituality seekers aspiring to be the next Shirley Maclaine, Baby Boomers contemplating middle age, and John Q Public just out for a cheap, boozy sun-drenched outdoor holiday.

As Moore pushes, pulls, wheedles, cajoles, and threatens Shinto across Spain, the duo overnights in the bedrooms, dormitories, and---for Shinto---grassy fields of northern Spain. Shinto, a donkey with a finely honed talent for relieving himself at the most inopportune moments, has better luck in the search for his next meal than Moore does in finding his inner pilgrim. Undaunted, however, Man and Beast finally arrive at the cathedral and a successful end to their journey. For readers who delighted in his earlier books, Travels With my Donkey is the next hilarious chapter in the travels of Tim Moore, a book that keeps the bones of St. James rattling to this day.

Moore, Tim: - Tim Moore is a three-time Emmy award-winning director and president of Diamond View, a video agency headquartered in Florida. As a curiously driven entrepreneur, Tim has become a leading expert in purpose-driven marketing over the last 10 years and has developed emotionally compelling campaigns for brands all around the world. He is also the founder of the Tampa Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on inspiring communities through positive public messaging. Tim is currently in production of a new technology called DSR, Dynamic Scene Replacement, that offers advertisers the ability to increase the emotional effectiveness of adverting by optimizing scenes for audience interest. For more information on the author and ideas brought forth in this book visit SoldOnPurpose.com

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ISBN 13	9780312320836
ISBN 10	0312320833
Title	Travels with My Donkey
Author	Tim Moore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2006-01-24
Number of pages	336
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