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Unbound Together: A Journey to the End of the Earth and Beyond Kindle Edition

by Amit Janco (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Four years after falling from a bridge in Cambodia, Amit Janco set off, like thousands before her, on a journey of healing along the legendary Camino de Santiago. What was slated to be little more than a restorative hike across the undulating terrain of northern Spain would become an unexpectedly gratifying, comical, and, at times, tumultuous odyssey through physical and emotional recovery, into the very heart and soul of her existence.

If you loved WILD by Cheryl Strayed, TRACKS by Robyn Davidson, EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert, or I'LL PUSH YOU by Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray, you will also love Amit Janco's (Un)Bound, Together: A Journey to the End of the Earth (and Beyond).
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"Filled with a cast of unlikely characters, Unbound Together takes readers on a journey through Amit's mind, heart, and soul. A wonderful read and fantastically written, this is a story every pilgrim (past, present, and future) should read." - Patrick Gray and Justin Skeesuck, authors of I'll Push You

About the Author

Trained as a lawyer, Amit Janco is a writer, artist, serial walker and yoga practitioner who divides her time between Montreal, Canada and Bali, Indonesia. She's also been a media producer,teacher, and public investigator who tracked down missing heirs around the globe. Amit's writing has appeared in Travel + Leisure, Journeywoman and Inspired Bali. She has trekked in the Himalayas, ridden horseback through the Mongolian steppe, and floated in the Dead Sea. After surviving a precipitous and devastating drop from a bridge in Cambodia, she discovered resilience and the benefits of an upright life--including improved posture. Amit blogs at healingpilgrim.com and dabbles in social-mediaesque pursuits @amitjanco. (Un)Bound,Together is her first book.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07PYZLT7F
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (March 22, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 22, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 489 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 291 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1999018206
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A lawyer by training, Amit Janco is a writer, artist, serial walker, and yoga practitioner who splits her time between Montreal, Canada, and Bali, Indonesia. She’s also been a media producer, teacher, and public investigator who tracked down missing heirs around the globe. Amit has contributed to Travel + Leisure, Journeywoman, and Inspired Bali. She has trekked in the Himalayas, ridden horseback through the Mongolian steppe, and floated in the Dead Sea. After surviving a precipitous and devastating drop from a bridge in Cambo¬dia, she discovered the benefits of an upright life—including improved posture, a heightened search for truth, and easier access to dangling fruit. Amit blogs at healingpilgrim.com and dabbles in social-mediaesque pursuits at @amitjanco.

(Un)Bound, Together is her first book.

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A beautifully written and compelling story of a very brave woman's healing spiritual journey.Many years ago I made my own pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. The experience waslife-changing for me as it certainly was for Ms Janco.
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Nick Nolan
5.0 out of 5 stars Unwind with “(Un)Bound, Together”
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2021
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Like a Merchant-Ivory film crossed with a National Geographic documentary, (Un)Bound, Together is the unforgettable and unflinching account of one scarred woman’s step-by-step journey toward healing.

Four years after a devastating fall from a rickety bridge in Cambodia, author Amit Janco attempts to rehabilitate her broken body by undertaking a pilgrimage along the more than 700 km Camino de Santiago in Spain. Janco deftly pulls the reader along on her sometimes joyful but always grueling journey from beginning to end, where we share her meals and delights and frustrations, and we become familiar with her cast of characters, especially her enigmatic guide Juan-Do.

Janco’s writing is at once exacting, dynamic, and poetic; her descriptions of rural life along the Camino – the pilgrims and hostel owners and flora she encounters, as well as her daily struggles to overcome fierce and nagging physical pain – gild her journey with vivid scents, sights, and sounds.

Also within (Un)Bound Together coexist several quiet, spiritual aspects: We see Juan-Do absorb the light of Janco’s psyche while revealing himself as the Yin to her Yang. Seldom does Juan-Do exude even a perfunctory warmth or joy as he morphs into a Yungian shadow figure, perhaps representative of the grief Janco unveils within her childhood flashbacks of ostensible privilege polluted by the coldness and cruelty of a close family member.

(Un)bound Together is the haunting chronicle of one woman’s foray into the inextricable binding together of our bodies and souls, and how if we focus on one, the other is just over one’s shoulder…like the one-wheeled Carrix author Amit Janco trails behind her along the Camino de Santiago.

Five Stars.
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D. Kinsky
5.0 out of 5 stars lovely
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2022
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I thoroughly enjoyed accompanying the author on her journey as I read this book : )
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, insightful read!
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
Here is a first draft.
Feel free to edit for spelling or whatever errors you may find.

Amit Janco's "(Unbound) Together" is her Camino de Santiago de Compostela memoir. It is not a travel book - it will not teach you about the famous walk's "stages", gear or dos/donts.
It is an exercise in self-reflection, identity, soul-searching, and reaching past your limits.
Which is why - whether you will end up walking the Camino or not - it speaks to all us and our inner search for meaning, love, adventure, and self-fulfillment.
Her deeply authentic tone (self-deprecating and sarcastic at times), makes for a greatly entertaining book, deep and light at the same time.
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nancy anello
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy the book. Be inspired. Get a pack and head out.
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019
(Un) Bound,
Together
A Journey to the end of the earth
(and Beyond)

There are moments that change the trajectory of one’s life, some dramatic and others less so. Falling off a bridge in Cambodia was one such life threatening moment in Amit’s life. Another moment was a chance encounter with Sue Kenney, who inspired Amit to make the medieval pilgrimage , Camino Santiago de Compostelo
In this memoir Amit tells her account of walking the Camino. Setting out on an adventure of healing, wanderlust, discovery. Along the way meeting many fellow pilgrims and travelers all walking for a diverse number of personal of reasons.
Walking as a meditation, walking as a prayer, walking to heal our wounds, walking to give thanks for being healed, walking to stay sane, and sometimes walking just for walking, putting one foot in front of the other to get to the albergue many kilometers ahead when you are in pain, tired, and hungry.

Follow Amit as she walks step by step, picking wild blackberries at every opportunity, meal by meal, albergue by albergue, with the ever constant uncommunicative, incomprehensible, invaluable walking companion , Juan Do who carries her gear and frequently regenerates his spirit by hugging trees.
It’s a story of striving to overcome limitations and of learning to make peace with things as they are, not always as we would hope them to be.
Enjoy the book. Be inspired. Get a pack and head out.
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5.0 out of 5 stars In short – this is a must read!
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021
I was expecting a typical travelogue about author’s travels along the Camino Satiago. But it turned out to be much more. Much much more!

It starts with the story of her fateful fall off a collapsing bridge in Cambodia that nearly killed her. At first, it seemed that this alone was what ultimately led her four years later to seek physically and mental recovery through the 1,000km and two-month Camino Satiago journey.

But there was more, she was also seeking a way to deal with her early childhood trauma from an emotionally distant, abusive and dominating mother that led her into deep depression.

She very cleverly weaves the personal story of her childhood into the main story and even wrote it in the third person, so at first the reader is not sure who she is talking about. Then there is the sudden realization that it is her.

Her description of the journey is both colorful and poetic. You share her experiences with the people she meets and places she sees. And there are her travel companions: a dog, two donkeys, and a distant and unapproachable porter that carried her things because her injuries prevented her from doing so. The porter turns out to be a metaphor for her equally distant and unapproachable mother.

But, in the end, it is a story about overcoming and conquering one’s disabilities – physical and mental. And gaining spiritual enlightenment. It gives us all a strong inspirational message that when you feel that you are at the end of the road – or end of your rope – then you should go on.
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Tracey Butterfill
5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautifully Written and Extremely Moving Memoir
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2019
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I LOVED this book! It is much more than a memoir of walking the Camino de Santiago. It is a deeply personal and incredibly moving account of a terrible accident, hidden disability, recovery and healing. It is a beautifully written book and I would highly recommend it.
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Prunella P.
4.0 out of 5 stars Laughter and longing
Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2020
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I’ve read a number of Camino tales, and having walked the pilgrimage myself, I recognize the cast of characters and can laugh along and commiserate with their blisters and bungles. There’s a comfortable familiarity in the archetypes and the setting, which, in the hands of a less gifted writer, could be less compelling to me. But with a thread of childhood memories that weaves through the book, this story becomes something altogether more captivating than just a travelogue. And I am left hoping that I will one day read more about this colourful and complicated life.
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