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    Pilgrimage Five (Third Edition)
    Pilgrimage Five (Third Edition)
    Pilgrimage Five (Third Edition)
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    Pilgrimage Five (Third Edition)

    By G McDougall

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    A prize-winning author, Garry McDougall, brings a fresh new collection of stories from France and Spain. He casts his eye over its colourful towns, draws inspiration from each town's weird, violent and peculiar histories, including real and reimagined évents. These towns shape their people.
    His style is colourful, intense and full of vivid images, like:
    'I am pilgrim to Nogaro, north of Pau, south of Brive, east of the Atlantic, west of Shanghai beer. Watching TV Rugby in southern France, it's Pau v Brive; thirty men wrestling in the mud, rucking, mucking and mauling merrily, the thirty-first man blowing his whistle. No reason.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG McDougall
    Release dateSep 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301468270
    Pilgrimage Five (Third Edition)
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    G McDougall

    The Author was winner of the Art-In-Unusual-Places Grant (2022), a Feature Poet at the Sydney Writers Festival (2018), Balmain Institute founder and President (2007-14), and winner, Ros Spenser Short Story Prize with Patting The Dog (2017). He is author of over thirty books, including six novels, fourteen poetry, travel and short stories, and numerous photo books. Founder of Pamela Press, he is published in international magazines, with photos exhibited in eleven countries.The Author is the Camino de Santiago's most prolific author with ten eBooks and several paperbacks. He has extensive travel and teaching experience, and won Australian ecotourism, community project and literary prizes and grants. He co-created an Official NSW Bicentennial Project, the 250 km 'Great North Walk'. After many years managing Great Australian Walks, he refocused on photography, painting and storytelling, with seven novels.'Belonging' is a fictional-biography of a 'black doctor' in colonial Australia. 'Starts With C' is a murder mystery where we don't who is the murder, who has been murdered, and who's telling the story. The third novel is the acclaimed 'Knowing Simone' set in Victor Hugo's France. 'Blacksmith and Canon' is volume one of the series '1503'. Inheritance is the second volume, with volumes 3 and 4 due in 2025. In between, he wrote, Sea Voices, inspired by a WW2 event in the Pacific.Recent Awards include; Winner, Art-in-Usually-Places Grant, 2022, Wollongong City; Winner, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, with 'Patting the Dog', Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize; Second, Peter Cowan Poetry Prize, and Feature Poet in the Sydney Writers festival. Included in numerous poetry and short story anthologies, Garry was Balmain Institute's president for seven years, a member of 'That Authors Collective' and 'Diverse' poetry group. He lives south of Sydney in the great and beautiful Illawarra.

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      Pilgrimage Five (Third Edition) - G McDougall

      P i l g r i m a g e

      Book Five

      Saving the Best for Last.

      Garry Mc Dougall

      Copyright 2014, 2015, 2018

      Smashwords Edition, 2020

      ISBN 9781301468270

      Pezenas Musee, France

      License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Including its images, it may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard-working author.

      Pilgrimage Five

      Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 Albi- The Power and - From Albi, France

      (Two Versions: Short story, or Narrative poetica)

      Chapter 2 Crave Love, Pezanas, Herault, France

      Chapter 3 Venterol Dawn, Venterol, Drome, France

      Chapter 4 What I Didn’t See in St Nazaire, Brittany, France

      Chapter 5 Icehouse Pont St Espirit, Languedoc, France

      Chapter 6 Riveting Rugby, Nogaro, Gers, France (Song, poetica and story)

      Chapter 7 Aigues Mortes, Provence, France (Two Versions)

      Chapter 8 St Jean Pied de Port

      Chapter 9 Worldwide Warning, Bilbao, Spain

      Chapter 10 To St Martin d’Ardeche

      Further Information

      List of Photographs and further web links

      Pil-grim-age

      A journey to a sacred place or shrine; a long journey or search, especially one of exalted purpose or moral significance.

      Previous Pilgrimage books : What Others Say

      On Crave Love, Pezenas, France.

      ‘To make the tale as intense and colorful as possible, the storyline is hardest to maintain. But it is there!! The rest is left to your imagination.’

      ‘I am impressed with your writing style…You show the talents of a wordsmith. Keep up the good work.’

      A Tribute to Albi, Trans France

      ‘Six stars. The ways you describe the places are really well done. This piece is very well written and makes for an interesting read’

      ‘I have heard of the artist Toulouse Lautrec and always wished to know more about him. Thanks to this article I do! The way this has been written is highly informative.’

      On Icehouse, Pont St Esprit, Languedoc, France

      ‘You really know your history and it is obvious by the detailed descriptions you use. Weaving in the spiritual words and messages you include, takes talent, well done.’

      ‘Great job. You had a very beautiful vocab built in here, wonderful imagery. It flowed nice and smooth with a steady under rhythm. Great job.’

      On Venterol Dawning, Paye Drome, France.

      ‘Well you’ve done a good job of describing how everything is in the mornings. Especially for you. Very descriptive and imaginative. I liked it.’

      ‘This poem unfurls with the idea of someone slowly becoming aware of his /her surroundings in the morning, revealing itself to one’s senses.’

      Introduction

      Style is knowing who you are, what you have to say, and not giving a damn.

      Gore Vidal

      Saving the best for last! Here are fifteen photographs and many tales of marvelous St Domingo in the Rioja, and in France, Nogaro, Pezenas, World-heritage Albi, Venterol, St Nazaire and Pont St Esprit, Aigues Mortes and St Jean Pied de Port. What a line-up!

      In St Domingo, we recite a comic translation of the major pilgrim myth ‘The Hen and Rooster Miracle’. In earthy Nogaro, the weather and Rugby intercept the pilgrim’s dogged progress. In France’s more remote and less fancied towns in Gers, Drome, Provence and the Tarn. Only Albi is well-known, a large urban town with a fabulous past.

      Crave Love is about Pezenas, a substantial market town that has embraced its heritage and developed its artistic reputation. Aigues Mortes is an outlandish castle town that has defied time, sited on the Camargue’s salt flats.

      For Icehouse, the quiet river town of Pont St Esprit fired my imagination. Every time I visit it keeps surprising me, this time discovering the ice well beneath its small museum.

      And finally, after a longish stay in Venterol, I wrote a series of reflections and imaginings on the region, including Nyons, Valreas, the Baronnies and Grignon. A Trouser Ecology is inspired by the French resistance to Nazi rule by the men and women of the Marque. In Venterol

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