When American pastor, David Juliano, reaches breaking point after decades in ministry, he doesn’t book a therapist – he books a flight to England and sets out to walk forty-seven miles of the Peak District.
Chronicling his experiences of the Peak Wesley Way, a historic pilgrimage route through some of England’s most stunning countryside, Walking the Edges is part travel memoir, part spiritual reckoning. It is a story about what happens when you trade the pressure of performance for the simple rhythm of putting one foot in front of the other.
With the self-deprecating humour of Bill Bryson and the vulnerability of a man remembering why he started this whole ministry thing in the first place, David discovers picture-book villages, eccentric locals and the surprising history of the Derbyshire peaks – all while trying to figure out if walking really can save your soul.
Spoiler alert: it might.
