![]() ![]() Happily, he often veers into historical rambles that offer portraits of medieval life. " 'Yeah,' I said, 'the inner world means something to me as well' " is about where his easily won epiphanies bound along. Compelling as these characters may be, they never engage the reader Ellis is satisfied with merely bouncing his own minor revelations off of them. ![]() Remarkably, though, he connects with a good number of Tales-worthy eccentrics, including a Steve McQueen–loving monk and runaway teenagers who recite Chaucer from memory. As in that work, he seeks connections with his ancestry by engaging strangers along the walk, a journalistic method that might seem uniquely unsuited to outlining the English character. Ellis, a mystically inclined journalist of English and Cherokee descent, re-creates the Canterbury Tales' central journey on foot in this informative but unsatisfying follow-up to Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. ![]()
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