Our Books

Walking outside to get inside.

We offer you the following insights into the ongoing pilgrimages of our lives. Mike Metras authored them all. Petra Wolf co-authored Encounters on the Road to Jerusalem. Petra also contributed notes to Germany to Rome. The publishing date is in parens after the title.

Title	Description	Price
Encounters on the Road to Jerusalem (2nd edn 2014)	*Encounters on the Road to Jerusalem* is the story of how we lived our dream to walk for a long time. This book tells the story of our encounters with people, places, sun, wind, rain, snow, roads, and our own inner selves as we walked across America and southern Europe. We started in California January 2009, walked 5,321 miles (8,620 kilometers), and arrived in Jerusalem 23 December 2010, 23 months later.	$18.45
*Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage* (2008)	*Germany to Rome in 64 days: Our Pilgrimage* is a book about our pilgrimage from Kisslegg, Germany to Rome. It's about how my wife, Petra, and I interacted with the people we met and the places we walked through on this pilgrimage. It's also about the path itself and its many faces. And it's the story of our internal pilgrimages through our souls, minds, hearts, and spirits as we walked that external path through Germany, Austria, and Italy to Rome.	$19.76
*Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life* (2006)	Taking lessons from our earlier pilgrimage walks *Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life*, is a motivating book of meditations. Its texts and illustrations encourage you to reflect on your own pilgrimage through life, to push yourself over thresholds, and to realize your dreams. It comes in both a color and a black and white version.	$16.61/$9.98
Do you Have a Match? Bocadillos, Poppies, and Pilgrims (2016)	*Do you Have a Match? Bocadillos, Poppies, and Pilgrims* is a personal account of my first walk on the Camino de Santiago in spring 2003. I went there not knowing why. I was only following persistent chills and goose bumps that dogged me whenever I read anything about northern Spain and the Camino. I went because the Universe was pushing me a little more than gently in that direction. At the end of my third day walking, I met Petra who was to become my wife, my companion on my pilgrimage through life. The Universe had a reason to push me. This book is my personal story of our meeting and my walk across northern Spain.	$13.99
*Sicily's Historic Coasts* (2nd edn 2013)	In October 2000 I traveled the coasts of Sicily from Palermo to Palermo visiting cities tracing their histories back 2500 years, cities in ruins already at the time of Christ, ancient coin collections, Mt. Etna (Europe's largest volcano), and many corners of this island with a thousand faces. *Sicily's Historic Coasts* tells the story. Walk with me through this series of essays, each a snapshot of a town, a city, a train, a beach, a haphazard pile of rocks--each a glimpse current life, of a long ago civilization, of modern society. They are my view of the turn-of-the-century Sicily.	$16.16
*Wandering East Africa, Ethiopia, and Israel* (2017)	After leaving the army September 11, 1970 in Asmara, Ethiopia, I spent six months drifting on my own. I wanted to use the Swahili that the army had taught me. I knew “If I don't do this now while I have a chance, I'll never do it.” What a prophet! *Wandering East Africa, Ethiopia, and Israel* tells that story. Journals I wrote at the time supply the detail for this rendition of the journey that started on Ethiopian New Year's Day, 1963EC. The trip was my coming out. It was the first time I had ever lived and functioned alone. Home, school, and the army had taken care of me before. I was really on my own, at 27. I fared well.	$14.99
*Ethiopia: Travels of a Youth, a memoir of my time in Eritrea and Ethiopia* (2002)	*Ethiopia: Travels of a Youth* is a CD book of essays that you view on your browser. The essays take you down the highways and byways of Eritrea and Ethiopia during the late 1960s when I lived in Asmara with the US Army. Join me as I visit Asmara and the area around it, rest in the hill town of Keren, relax on the Red Sea in the blast furnace that was Massawa. Then take the high roads inland with me to the ruins of the Axumite Empire—Metara, Yeha, and Axum itself.	$13.95
*Mike's Morgans* (2015)	*Mike's Morgans* is a fun coin collector's book. It is a coin by coin photographic record of what was my Morgan Dollar collection. I sold in 2012 and 2013 on eBay. I have not created a full description page yet so this link takes you directly to my printer, Lulu.com, where you can preview and order the book.	$16.19
*Money Meanderings: An Introduction to Numismatics* (2001)	*Money Meanderings: An Introduction to Numismatics* is a CD-ROM book you view on your browser. It introduces you to over 85 topics about coins and coin collecting. It includes more than 180 graphics and an extensive bibliography. Both beginning and seasoned collectors of U. S., foreign, and ancient coins can learn from the articles in this book.	$9.95
*Axum: Coins and Places* (1999)	*Axum: Coins and Places* is a video that takes you over paths merchants walked down 1500 years ago as they visited the ancient city Axum, seat of an empire that ruled the southern Red Sea from the beginning of the third century through the middle of the seventh or eighth century of the common era. Ethiopia traces its history back to Axum. I made the video from pictures and movies taken in 1969 and 1970.	$9.95

If you are inclined, you can also visit books by Marty Metras. My brother Marty has books on his 2007 Camino walk, a family tree of the Metras, and his Random Thoughts.

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