This is a popular, small-format coffee-table book with an accessible text on Christian pilgrimage divided into two parts – a brief history and a gazetteer of key sites. It is weighted towards the British Isles (the gazetteer has sections on Scotland, Ireland and Wales, while Celtic pilgrimage, Canterbury and Walsingham make it into the historical section) despite the relatively minor part that Britain plays in the bigger picture of Christian sacred mobility. The book discusses both Roman Catholic and Protestant material, but very seriously underplays the Orthodox – both Greek and Russian, as well the traditions of the non-Chalcedonian Churches. Not only does the Holy Land hardly feature, but the great sites of America – especially Guadalupe in Mexico City – are ignored. Bradley is right about the vibrancy of pilgrimage across modern Europe, but fails to mention its most recent and remarkable phenomenon. This is the rise of the Padre Pio cult (both before and after his canonisation in 2002), and his sacred centre at San Giovanni Rotondo, with its new Renzo Piano basilica, which has rapidly become one of the biggest goals of sacred travel in the world. While the major sites of post-Reformation Catholic pilgrimage have been primarily Marian (one thinks of Knock, Fatima, Lourdes, Medugorje), the Pio cult at the dawn of the third Christian millennium returns us to a world of saintly charisma not seen in Christianity since Thomas Becket and Francis of Assisi in the Middle Ages. So really this is a pretty but pretty useless book.