- Paperback: 214 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (3 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595493963
- ISBN-13: 978-0595493968
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,213,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS-News.
"Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner."-Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News
"Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one."-Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist
"Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way."-Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim
"I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet."-Pieter, The Netherlands
"I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish . my students follow the Camino via the Internet."-Cesiah, International Languages Department Coordinator
"We are living it through Marcus Wilder's eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure."-Elizabeth, San Antonio
"My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive."-JoeLyn, Dallas
"I am fascinated by your stories."-Memo, Laredo
"I bookmarked your page. I was captured."-Waltrud, Chicago
"I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative."-J.J., San Antonio
About the Author
Marcus Henderson Wilder was born in 1937 and reared in the Mexican border country of South Texas. He is a reader, a writer, a rifleman, a horseman, and a traveler. Marcus does not look, he sees. What Marcus reports, the reader sees.
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Fortunately, Sequels Do not Always Pale in Comparison
19 Dec 2008
Format:Paperback
There's an old tradition that the sophomore entry by an author or artist is usually somewhat lessened in comparison to the first effort. Sequels always pale in comparison to the first movies. The television series based on a popular movie is never quite as good as the movie.
Fortunately, Marcus Wilder is not much of a watcher of television (he doesn't own one) or of movies. His second book "Naïve & Abroad: Spain: Limping 600 Miles through History" is just as good, if not better, than his Pakistan book. "Limping 600 Miles through History" is the story of Marcus' walk across Spain on the caminos from Seville to Santiago. If it was anyone else making this trip it might be another un-memorable memoir, except that Wilder's medical problems (broken back, diabetes) make you wonder how he got out of bed in the morning, let alone walked 600 miles alone.
Wilder's outsider view in passing of Spanish society and his keen observational powers make this book a fascinating set of sociological and historical observations wrapped in delightful slice-of-life anecdotes. Wilder meets people along the way and makes you feel you know them as well as he does. His Hemingway-esque short, punchy word pictures almost overwhelm the senses with sensory input from his incredible descriptions. Reading the story of Bathilde who fell and hit her face on a rock made me cringe and taste blood. The vignette of the American father with his glass of wine and cigar dozing in the sun made me more than a little sleepy in sympathy.
Marcus' famous internal dialogue -- that's very much what it reads like on paper -- discusses so much that I frequently wanted to go back and re-read the last page to make sure I had fully absorbed everything before moving on. The book was so riveting for me I'd have read it three or four times if it wasn't currently making the rounds between my son and wife, who won't give it up.
This is most definitely a book for people who love to read a good story, and recommended for people who think the pleasant art of conversation has died. It hasn't; Marcus Wilder is it's guardian and master. If you read his previous book on Pakistan, Wilder finds enough Muslim and Moor influences in Spain to make you feel he's become a master observer of the Muslim condition wherever he goes.. A most excellent choice for a gift; this book will have your giftee thanking you for a long time to come.
Fortunately, Marcus Wilder is not much of a watcher of television (he doesn't own one) or of movies. His second book "Naïve & Abroad: Spain: Limping 600 Miles through History" is just as good, if not better, than his Pakistan book. "Limping 600 Miles through History" is the story of Marcus' walk across Spain on the caminos from Seville to Santiago. If it was anyone else making this trip it might be another un-memorable memoir, except that Wilder's medical problems (broken back, diabetes) make you wonder how he got out of bed in the morning, let alone walked 600 miles alone.
Wilder's outsider view in passing of Spanish society and his keen observational powers make this book a fascinating set of sociological and historical observations wrapped in delightful slice-of-life anecdotes. Wilder meets people along the way and makes you feel you know them as well as he does. His Hemingway-esque short, punchy word pictures almost overwhelm the senses with sensory input from his incredible descriptions. Reading the story of Bathilde who fell and hit her face on a rock made me cringe and taste blood. The vignette of the American father with his glass of wine and cigar dozing in the sun made me more than a little sleepy in sympathy.
Marcus' famous internal dialogue -- that's very much what it reads like on paper -- discusses so much that I frequently wanted to go back and re-read the last page to make sure I had fully absorbed everything before moving on. The book was so riveting for me I'd have read it three or four times if it wasn't currently making the rounds between my son and wife, who won't give it up.
This is most definitely a book for people who love to read a good story, and recommended for people who think the pleasant art of conversation has died. It hasn't; Marcus Wilder is it's guardian and master. If you read his previous book on Pakistan, Wilder finds enough Muslim and Moor influences in Spain to make you feel he's become a master observer of the Muslim condition wherever he goes.. A most excellent choice for a gift; this book will have your giftee thanking you for a long time to come.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Quite disappointing
29 Oct 2008
Format:Paperback
I was expecting much more from this book. The author intertwines historical information that anyone could fine on the net, with his own petty day to day living on the Camino de Santiago. There is no effort on reflect on the experience that he is going through. Mediocre book
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