Unlikely Pilgrim: A Journey into History and Faith [Hardcover]

Two middle-aged men, fast friends, make eleven foreign tripspilgrimages you might call them to parts of the world rich in the history of Christianity.?The trips combine adventure, strenuous physical activity, exhilaration, discovery, and friendship. Three of the journeys were to Western Europe; six were to Eastern Europe and the Balkans and two to the Middle East.?The trips were spontaneous and unplanned, often requiring improvisation along the way. Told in a lighthearted and often amusing style,?An Unlikely Pilgrim?provides a vivid and colorful picture of parts of the world often out of the range of American tourists, but deep in both ancient and current geopolitical, historical, and cultural wealth.

"Alfred Regnery journeyed on foot, bicycle, and local transport along the pilgrim routes of the old world, recording the indelible traces of Christianity in a continent that is now trying hard to rub them out. Regnery’s acute observations of the people and places along his way, and his sensitive response to the holiness that still lingers around them, make for fascinating reading. While accomplishing remarkable feats of physical endurance he alsl“)