Kathryn Hurlock

This year, as they have for millennia, people will set out on pilgrimages. From Mecca to the Outer Hebrides, each of these journeys will be filled with spiritual and personal meaning - and as well as political statements, cultural battlegrounds and contested stories. Holy Places follows the trail of pilgrimage from the humble origins of the greatest faiths to sites...

"One simply cannot do justice to Kathryn Hurlock's vivid and remarkably wide-ranging page-turner" - Country Life. This year, as they have for millennia, many people around the world will set out on pilgrimages. But these are not only journeys of personal and spiritual devotion – they are also political acts, affirmations of identity, and engagements with deep-rooted historical narratives. Kathryn...