. . . provides everyone with a first-rate passage through history. There may well be a run on history books as this timeline attracts attention.Prairie Messenger In ten absorbing chapters, [ Keller] shares the insights she gained while visiting locales described briefly under the headings pyramids, circles, domes, towers, rivers, mountains, islands, temples, cathedrals, mosques, and ruins. And we are with her on the final night of 1999 for a `small pilgrimage' in the frozen fields behind her home in Minnesota.Writing Works This is a brave and beautiful book. Its gentle and alluring writing draws us into the author's rich experience, exploring the whole landscape of pilgrimage as an encounter with the sacred. Rosanne Keller is a born writer, whose perceptiveness and prose march together in a memorable and life-enhancing alliance. To read her is to be deepened immeasurably and stirred towards pilgrimage. She makes you a companion of her own well-recounted pilgrimages and of her whole life's journey. I urge you to read it.Richard Eyre, Dean Emeritus of Exeter Her little book reminds us that time is sacred, whether we're on pilgrimage or going through our ordinary days.National Catholic Reporter
