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Vagabond

"A long distance ramble through the disappearing life of rural Spain."

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A travel book in which someone walks the length of Spain is something of a niche within a niche within a niche. Mark Eveleigh’s colourful and eventful 1200km trip from Gibraltar in the south to Galicia in the north is a worn shoe-in for the travel section, but inside that genre it has a place in walking books, and from there it is nudging up against literature for the adventure market. Vagabond earns a place on all these shelves, but it does beg the question, How many people will read this in planning to walk the length of Spain? The answer of course is not many, but walking in Spain is hugely popular, and a favourite foreign destination for British ramblers. Let’s face it, walkers are tight and Spain is cheap, especially rural Spain. Walking takes time and time is money.

El Camino in the north is on every serious hiker’s bucket list. And there is a traditional fascination with the landscape, voiced by the great travellers including Hemingway, Twain and of course Laurie Lee, all of whom Eveleigh references and takes with him, if only in his DNA.

I walk a lot, and reading Vagabond was like a bigger version of a standard day out where nature, random incidents, encounters, personal thoughts and global concerns somehow blend together and get processed before the next day at work. Not for Eveleigh though, all he has to worry about is the next 30km, the next meal and the next kip in his hammock.

At the very minimum all you would have to have to enjoy this book is an affection for Spain and some sentiment for the disappearing ‘vagabundo’ lifestyle. From cover to cover it’s a joy to witness the way in which this country’s rich culture envelops our traveller, intrigues him, delights him, exhausts him but is also looking out for him. It left me thinking that the world would be a better place if everyone dropped out slightly and took a long walk in Spain.

Greg Hackett

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