is a round trip of 4000 km on foot.
Here the diary of a return ...
up Challes-les-Eaux. 928 hours
told daily by Gerard La Tortue Trier said.
Walk to learn to love , is his travel diary: 112 days of personal testimony with a few addresses, a bibliography on the road to St Jacques, a book of color photos and a DVD available.
The book opens on a map: the route is traced. Then comes the page with the announcement of the title and the presentation follows a quotation from Follereau.
Page 5, Gerard Trier dedicated his book to his family, his children, grandchildren, parents, stepmother, stepfather, uncle, brothers, friends anonymous or named, those of the Mauritius, America or Togo, pilgrims, hospital, hikers, indigenous ...
Breathless, it starts on page 7 with a preface by Nicolas Vanier, followed by a prologue page 9 Andre Drean, itself extended a foreword by Gerard Trier.
page 21, we are finally beginning the return journey. He leads us, dating meditation until page 447. Arrive
few digressions on mail received during the absence of the author presenting an evening slide show, some addresses, some thoughts, some poems, four citations: Pythagoras, Lao-Tzu, Immanuel Kant and ... Yves Duteil!
It is high time we separated.
But before closing the book, it remains to address a list of thanks goes to Zazie Patrice Dard, through Nicolas Vanier and the wife of Gerard Trier, his children, his brother, his sister, his sister, his friends, Andrew Drean, Glenda Pajean, Christine and John, Alexandra Ragache Alain Durieu, Patrick Jager, Frederic Columbus, etc., etc..
(there was one page)
The die is cast. The book is laid on the table. We look with satisfaction until his hand away and that way, so surprising as unexpected as a preface to the singer Zazie. A preface
back cover?! It never ends!
St. Jacques de Compostela Walking to learn to love Gerard Trier in Trier editions.
If you meet the author, you will surely be a white stone, small stone heart picked up en route.
All rights revert to the endowment fund "hope youth" to support the Auteuil Foundation for underprivileged children and troubled youth.
- Mr (mocking but benevolent) -
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