‘FOOTLOOSE!’

Name: ‘FOOTLOOSE!’
Price: $20.99 USD
Author: Kosti Simons
ISBN: 9781669885061

by Kosti Simons

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Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 12/22/2021

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 402

ISBN : 9781669885061

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : N/A

Page Count : 402

ISBN : 9781669885054

About the Book

Not many people would contemplate a 1500 km barefoot stroll along the highways and byways of France and Spain, but that is what the author did. Why? After a conversion to Christianity at age 50 he felt the Lord was calling him to do it. And he describes the experience along the centuries-old pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela as the foremost experience of his life. It took 111 footloose days. On the way he tape-recorded his journey for his wife in Australia, and he has used the 12 tapes so made as the basis of this account. Pilgrims in the days of his walk were rare creatures, and he felt the need with others to revive the spirit of pilgrimage. He founded the not-for-profit Pilgrims International, and led groups a biblical 40 days from the French Pyrenees to Santiago. Just one year before Covid-19 flattened the world, over 300,000 pilgrims arrived in Santiago. What may lift this book from the pedestrian, so to speak, into the heavenlies, are the dialogues Kosti has with Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Customer Reviews

“Having read the story of Kosti Simons’ barefoot walk from Paris to the Pyrenees I am looking forward to the remainder of his journey to Santiago de Compostelar in Spain, the goal of his pilgrimage.
I have enjoyed the travel so far in Kosti’s company including the many people he met, the conversations with God and all in spite of his painful bare feet. It is interesting to read about the scenery, imagine the countryside to even imagine the weather and the exhaustion that overwhelmed the author from time to time.
An enlightening and spiritual record of Kosti’s travel through France and Spain on his special personal pilgrimage with his God and Lord.”

Ron Careless
This book should be prized by all for its sense of spiritual adventure. Full of daily anecdotes, good and bad, it is truly a barefoot walk from Paris to Santiago with God that lasts 111 days. 1500 kilometers. I commend it to all God-fearing people, and particularly to those who are nun—God-fearing. Justine Cadena.

Justine Cadena
This book should be prized by all for its sense of spiritual adventure. Full of daily anecdotes, good and bad, it is truly a barefoot walk from Paris to Santiago with God that lasts 111 days. 1500 kilometers. I commend it to all God-fearing people, and particularly to those who are nun—God-fearing.

Justine Cadena
A love story.
Walk barefoot on gravel and asphalt roads for 1500 kilometres with this intrepid pilgrim, as he seeks to prove his love for God in this tale of adventure and devotion. Come with the author through France and Spain to hear of God’s providence demonstrated in many surprising situations, particularly when the author is at the end of his own resources.
In his earlier books, Kosti Simons has told of his thirst for challenge; building sea-going yachts, sailing in various parts of the world, establishing a coffee plantation in Papua New Guinea, founding the Moogerah Passion Play in Queensland and so much more. His latest chronical would not be out of place beside Homer’s Odyssey and Cervantes’ Don Quixote De la Mancha – journeys of danger, doubt and pain; loneliness, rejection, depression, joy and triumph over seemingly impossible demands on body and spirit.
Through 111 days of pilgrimage, the reader will be amused and sometimes bemused by the author’s quirky sense of humour and his idiosyncratic style, especially in the passages which are transcripts of original tape recordings made on the journey. As we navigate the sudden shifts of place and time, we are drawn into the current of his reflections on everything along the way: the people he meets, the places he traverses, the generous hospitality he receives - and frequently does not receive - on the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrims’ Way of St James.
Mr Simons intersperses the narrative with several ongoing conversations: with Christ Jesus, with his wife, Carroll and their children, with the reader and with himself. These dialogues provide the vehicle for contemplation of his life - his hopes, fears, regrets, theology, philosophy and spiritual yearnings.
This pilgrim’s prayer: “Oh, Lord, I thank you for the rain in my face, the wind in my cape, the people I speak to. I thank you for my health and my feet on the road, the river in the field and the tears on my cheeks.”
Footloose is a multifaceted love story - a physical and mystical ramble of epic dimensions. “.... the footfalls echo through the limitless distances of the mind ....“.

Rob Edwardson

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