The Wayward Pilgrim: A Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain is stitched together with adventures, side-trips, and visits to sites unknown to the Medieval Pilgrim.

The Wayward Pilgrim is an account of the desultory pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain made by a professor of Spanish on Sabbatical leave from the Salisbury University in Maryland. The professor undertakes the pilgrimage not as a religious experience but as an attempt to better understand the history and culture of Spain. In the book, he combines an account of the Medieval pilgrimage with the diversions often taken by the modem pilgrim. In the end, the professor comes to realize t...