The two authors, Pierre Barret and Jean-Noël Gurgand, famous journalists and writers, write ‘The Way of the World’ in which they retrace the lives of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, an experience they themselves had recounting their personal experience. They also propose a kind of collective travel diary by combining the testimonies of a number of pilgrims, who lived in different and also very distant eras – ranging from the 12th to the 18th century – as well as considerations on what it meant to undertake a pilgrimage on the path to Santiago de Compostela. So that they are accompanied by five very special traveling companions.