Spain category: 3192 books
by Andy Symington
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The Camino de Santiago has experienced a striking revival. Cutting across Spain from the Pyrenees in the east, to Santiago de Compostela in the west, it leads you through the varied and beautiful ancient kingdoms of northern Spain. This Footprint Handbook provides invaluable information on transport,...
The Sierras of Extremadura
32 half and full-day walks in western Spain's hills
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This guidebook showcases 32 walks exploring the sierras of Cáceres and Badajoz, one of Spain's least known regions and a gem for walkers and nature lovers. Walks range in length from 6 to 20km are suitable for any reasonably fit walker. They can be done from a number of bases in the area including...
Atado y bien atado
Ejercito, Guerrilla, Iglesia y robo de niños
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Juan Busquets, former guerrilla and author of Twenty Years in Franco’s Jails. An Anarchist in Franco’s Prisons, explains how Franco’s victims, especially the maquis, have been deliberately written out of history by Spain’s post-Francoist governments. His starting point is that the current...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Catalonia and Bavaria today cling tightly to their linguistic distinctiveness, their cultural traditions, their culinary specialties, and their political particularity. Even after the passage of some centuries, these regions have not yet amalgamated into the nation states that contain them. And yet,...
by James Lowen, Carlos Bocos Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Covers more than 250 species regularly seen in mainland Spain and the Balearics
Concise text includes information on identification, songs and calls, behaviour, distribution and habitat
Packed with full-colour photographs, each carefully selected to guide identification
The ideal pocket-sized guide – perfect for nature-loving travellers and birdwatchers
The History of Moors in Spain: From the Islamic Conquest until the Fall of Kingdom of Granada
The Last of the Goths, Wave of Conquest, People of Andalusia, The Great Khalif, Holy War, Cid the Challenger, Kingdom of Granada
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The History of Moors in Spain: From the Islamic Conquest until the Fall of Kingdom of Granada" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa crossed...
by Charles Horne
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Far back among the shadows of prehistoric times, a horde of Celts swarmed over the Pyrenees into this land of the Iberians, encountering possibly a still earlier race, whose descendants of to-day are the Basques. The Celts swerved to the west and settled in what now is Portugal and Gallicia. In civilization...
Valencia, Spain
The Key Sights, Places and Events
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Valencia, the third largest city in Spain, has been a lively Mediterranean trading place since ancient times. The fascinating history is still present in the city for travelers to explore, along with recently created modern wonders. What makes Valencia a unique Spanish destination is not only the...
Death and the Sun
A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A brilliant observer in the tradition of Adam Gopnik and Paul Theroux, Edward Lewine reveals a Spain few outsiders have seen. There's nothing more Spanish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadors and aficionados, it is not a blood sport but an art, an ancient subculture...
Metaphors of Spain
Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. And despite the undeniably political character of that story,...
by Valerie Grove
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and nostalgic tales of childhood and innocence found in the pages of Cider with Rosie, to the nomadic wanderings through Spain retold in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, to his dramatic experiences fighting...
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim
A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
A wickedly funny account of a woman's pilgrimmage of self-discovery on the infamous "Camino", the ancient road to Santiago de Compostela.
To celebrate her 50th birthday, Jane Christmas joins fourteen other women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a centuries-old pilgrimage...
Driving Over Lemons
An Optimist in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.
Lush with olive, lemon, and almond...
by Gerald Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
The updated 2015 Practical Preparation and Background guide is now available!
Everybody's heard about the Camino de Santiago, watched the film The Way, know people who’ve walked the Camino and described it as “amazing”! You want to walk it but you have so many questions!
What do...