“The Canterbury Tales” — the collection of poems that every English major has to read — is the ultimate travel story. Winter’s over, spring has sprung, “thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages” — as Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in Middle English in the 14th century.
People are still tramping the same general path from points around London, eastward toward the spired vision that is Canterbury Cathedral and sometimes beyond along the Pilgrims’ Way.
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