In 201.;^3, a^[n Austral=%`ian #($m)=*an[ a few m=#o+[+nt`[]hs  shy of turning 60 deci%`ded to% wa-lk the\ C.-amino de Santiago –
 +[an 800k[m pil`/g? r]i mage t!:rail acros)s t)\`%he top of Spain. He?\\ had no ]known religion, and -?absolutely n %^@o i\-[dea w_@ hy he felt so deeply com.[pelled to do \ this tort$ur-@o=!us +_walk.　　But $] co)mpe,?)lled, h[e was.,%　![　H%:e com@ pleted the walk,); ba;#ttling a_ “triumvirate o f
/pain” - a knee that he later discove r;ed/]# lack^-ed ?)a:[ny$/ meaningful /,cartil^+ ag- e, `=a blister @`!the sight of which would make a ?;]gr%*_own man weep, and shin-sorenes@+
:
s that ;`fel t like his ).lowe_^r limb? had bee%n split wi?th a+ mounta
in ax+-e wielded by a demented troll.[=　　Arriving at  the end ^$of[-^ the
( Camino, t he majestic c*+ athedral #-]@in Sa ^nt]=)i$ago de Composte($ la, he /_e
.\x*p$
ected an epiphany--%. – an answer to t`he qu[e^
stion he’d been asking /himself ev/:ery day: `=#Why am I d(oin:=@g `;(this?　　But no a(+nswer ?!ca*/me.　　S^*.[o wh/ .en _he got
? home he -wrote) a book, h
op`ing the# an;swer w*ould revea#?l )itself + in his scribblings.]: The result w?=as The Way, My ;/Way

?, @a humourous and s
elf -d*$eprecating book th % %at many consider the best memoi% r ever writte^n on walkin g the Cami@no` $.　　The b-.oo+)];k has now been]! made in+(to  a film, and it ,/’=s=#  ^@an extraordinary acc%`;ount of a
!#ma(n at a % pivotal=  poi\-nt in hi- s. ,life, -%^se=$archi+ng%  `!for meaning and find/` ing ?himself und;_ .ergoing a fundame.$ntal * tr# ans#
:[formation so +^\profound that he n$ow divi des his l=ife in`t;/o =^“Before )the _Cam
ino”
$and “After the, Cam: i=+)no.”　.:-　]*(+It’_\.s a s)#tory partic=;!ula(-r to ;one ma.n,+[=, y[$, et of (app,@eal . to anyone seek/ing a greater m=ean$)ing fro\,m `\@life.