Wayfaring in Brittany is a narrative of exploration along old routes spanning history from megaliths to medieval times. On the trail of ancient movement and connection with the landscape, Wendy Mewes visits lonely island locations, Neolithic monuments, Celtic and Roman vestiges, sacred ways and many landmarks of pilgrimage still in use today. The extra dimension of popular imagination enhances the search for meaning in her adopted land. There is also cause for personal reflection about migration, adversity and solitude during this journey on paths into the past.

« They are still here, these shadowy ancestors of ours, the people behind the stones, not completely driven out by thousands of years of inconsequence, by tomb-raiders or archaeologists, shepherds or their sheep, by fire-lighters or fire-fighters, tourists or time-travellers. The line holds, though many stones have fallen : the alignment fulfils its promise. »