title: Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
author:  Ian Reader 
description: <br />"... a very enjoyable and varied read ... Reader's book is not only an overview of pilgrimages but of research into them, and where that research might go in the future. Pilgrims and future pilgrims should read this Very Short Introduction and think twice when they condemn other tourists they meet on the pilgrimage routes and sites." -- Gisela Zimmermann, <em>Reading Religion</em>
zlib_text: Diary of a Pilgrimage
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  Diary of a Pilgrimage
  By Jerome K. Jerome
  
  Diary of a Pilgrimage
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  PREFACE
  Said a friend of mine to me some months ago:  "Well now, why don't
  you write a SENSIBLE book?  I should like to see you make people
  think."
  "Do you believe it can be done, then?" I asked.
  "Well, try," he replied.
  Accordingly, I have tried.  This is a sensible book.  I want you to
  understand that.  This is a book to improve your mind.  In this book I
  tell you all about Germany--at all events, all I know about Germany--and
  the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play.  I also tell you about other things.  I
  do not tell you all I know about all these other things, because I do not
  want to swamp you with knowledge.  I wish to lead you gradually.
  When you have learnt this book, you can come again, and I will tell you
  some more.  I should only be defeating my own object did I, by making
  you think too much at first, give you a perhaps, lasting dislike to the
  exercise.  I have purposely put the matter in a lig