📚 Pilgrims and Pilgrimages

Walking for merit: the routes, the guides for pilgrims (history’s first travel literature), and the destinations.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject pilgrims and pilgrimages in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages	J. J. Jusserand	1888	37
	Book of Margery Kempe	Margery Kempe	1940	24
	Diário de um mago	Paulo Coelho	1995	16
	The pilgrim church	E. H. Broadbent	1931	13
	Canterbury pilgrims and their ways	Francis Watt	1917	11
	This is the Holy Land	Henry Vollam Morton	1913	9
	Friar Felix at large; fifteenth-century pilgrimage to the Holy Land	H. F. M. (Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott	1950	9
	This is Rome	Henry Vollam Morton	1960	9
	Pilgrimage	Jonathan Sumption	1975	8
	Once to Sinai	H. F. M. (Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott	1957	7
	The Camino	Shirley MacLaine	2000	7
	The pilgrim's way from Winchester to Canterbury	Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright	1893	6
	Pilgrims and pilgrimages as peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam	Antón M. Pazos	2013	6
	Redefining pilgrimage	Antón M. Pazos	2014	6
	International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies	John Eade	2015	6
	Seductions of Pilgrimage	Michael A. Di Giovine	2016	6
	Some notes on the road from London to Canterbury in the middle ages	Henry Littlehales	1898	5
	The pilgrimage to Santiago	Edwin B. Mullins	1974	5
	Jesus and Mary	Henri J. M. Nouwen	1993	5
	On Pilgrimage	Jennifer Lash	1998	5
	Buddhist Tourism in Asia	Courtney Bruntz	2020	5
	Pèlerinages d'outre-mer	L. Lindsay	1890	4
	Pilgrim life in the Middle Ages	Sidney Heath	1911	4
	Romanesque sculpture of the pilgrimage roads	Arthur Kingsley Porter	1923	4
	O diário de um mago	Paulo Coelho	1986	4
	Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul	Raymond Van Dam	1993	4
	Off the road	Jack Hitt	1994	4
	Pilgrimage in medieval England	Diana Webb	2000	4
	Hajj	Eric Tagliacozzo	2015	4
	Pilgrim Journey	James Harpur	2016	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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