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The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way
The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way Author:R. M. French Revised and reissued HarperSanFrancisco 1991 edition; Huston Smith's introduction revised for the 1998 printing. -- Written by an anonymous Russian Christian, the original manuscript for "The Way of a Pilgrim" and its sequel, "The Pilgrim Continues His Way," came into the hands of a monk on Mount Athos in the nineteenth century and was first pub... more »lished in 1884. These chronicles ... more ?follow the author as he travels through mid-nineteenth century Russia and Siberia, visiting monasteries and the shrines of the saints in order to "pray without ceasing." His journey leads him to a starets, a Russian spiritual master who teaches him the spiritual discipline known as the Jesus Prayer -- the uninterrupted mantra-like invocation of the name of Jesus. This extraordinary account brings to the West the soul of Eastern Christianity.« less
Written some time between 1853 and 1861, a pilgrim makes his journey across Russia to Irkursk, although my perusal of it suggests it's not a geographical travelogue, but the pilgrim's search for the meaning of prayer.