backpacking vs peregrination

backpacking

noun
  • hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack. 

  • low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations. 

peregrination

noun
  • A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling. 

  • Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this. 

  • Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse. 

How often have the words backpacking and peregrination occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )