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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $55, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSPN280)		  
Eyewitness Guide Madrid  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 232 PAGES
This superb guide features bright color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the attractions in and around Madrid. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (SPN122, $20.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Madrid
Goya, Painter of Terrible Splendor  •  Jeanine Baticle
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1994 •  PAPER  • 175 PAGES
A pocket-size encyclopedia, this slim book is an illustrated overview of the life and times of Goya, his youth in Saragossa, days at the Royal court and, especially, his now-famous painterly response to the sacking of Madrid by the French. It's an illuminating portrait of 18th-century Madrid featuring reproductions of Goya's most famous paintings now on display at the Prado Museum. (SPN35, $12.95)		   Goya, Painter of Terrible Splendor
A Traveller's Companion To Madrid  •  Hugh Thomas
ANTHOLOGY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 422 PAGES
This spritely anthology of eyewitness accounts -- in diaries, letters, memoirs and novels -- covers palaces and neighborhoods, customs, manners and morals of the city, revealing its geography, history and spirit. (SPN291, $16.95)		   A Traveller's Companion To Madrid
Madrid Map  •  Borch Maps
2007 •  MAP  • 2007 PAGES
A detailed map of Madrid at a scale of 1:10,000, laminated and folded for easy reference. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (SPN106, $7.95)		   Madrid Map



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Culture Smart! Spain  •  Marian Meaney   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture provides a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (SPN342, $9.95)
 		  
Fodor's Madrid's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide includes an excellent pull-out map of the center of Madrid and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing. (SPN172, $11.99)
 		  
Frommer's Madrid Day by Day  •  Mary-Ann Gallagher   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (SPN410, $12.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Spanish Phrasebook  •  Izaskun Arretxe   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  This handy pocket phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (SPN182, $8.99)
 		  
Pocket Rough Guide Madrid  •  Simon Baskett   • GUIDEBOOK  •  By the savvy editors at Rough Guide, these just-right guides are bundled with a pullout map. (SPN507, $12.99)
 		  
Food and Wines of Spain  •  Penelope Casas   • FOOD  •  This classic collection of 400 recipes, interwoven with cultural commentary and culinary history, is a pleasure to read, but prepare to become hungry. (SPN100, $37.50)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Spain  •  Juan Lalaguna   • HISTORY  •  A swift survey from prehistory through the Romans, Goths and Moors to the present. (SPN06, $14.95)
 		  
Ghosts of Spain  •  Giles Tremlett   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Tremlett captures the Spanish character, history and modern politics in this masterful portrait, interweaving the story of his love for the country (where he has lived for 20 years) with interview, anecdote and observation. (SPN323, $18.00)
 		  
Madrid, A Cultural and Literary Companion  •  Elizabeth Nash   • HISTORY  •  One in the excellent series, both a walking guide and history of the city. (SPN506, $15.00)
 		  
Spain, The Root and the Flower  •  John A. Crow   • HISTORY  •  Take this book with you to Spain: it's an absorbing, well-written account of Spanish cultural history from prehistory to the Romans, Jews, Moors, Golden Age and on to Franco and his legacy in modern Spain. (SPN13, $29.95)
 		  
The New Spaniards  •  John Hooper   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A survey of the cultural, political and economic changes in Spain since the death of Franco. An authoritative and compelling look the everyday life of Spaniards. (SPN08, $16.00)
 		  
The Spanish Labyrinth, An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War  •  Gerald Brenan   • HISTORY  •  A fine introduction to the issues driving the Spanish Civil War. Brenan was there, and he offers a vivid picture that loses nothing for being skewed slightly towards the left. (SPN74, $25.00)
 		  
Goya  •  Jose Gudiol   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Each painting is given a full page, with commentary on the facing page, in this authoritative overview of Goya and his art. (SPN79, $34.00)
 		  
Picasso, Master of the New Idea  •  Paule du Bouchet  •  Marie-Laure Bernadac   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A colorful pocket-size reference on the development of Picasso and his art. Includes hundreds of color and archival photographs, a useful chronology and long section of writing by and about Picasso. (SPN27, $12.95)
 		  
Grammar Lessons  •  Michele Morano   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Morano, who lived in Oviedo in the early 1990s, reflects on the humor and trials of living in a new language in these 13 essays on travel in Spain and search for self. (SPN345, $22.50)
 		  
Homage to Catalonia  •  George Orwell   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  Orwell's portrait of the Barcelona uprising and the spirit of a city at war is a classic, an observant and heartfelt report from the streets. (SPN03, $14.00)
 		  
Monsignor Quixote  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  A village priest, elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, who travels to Madrid accompanied by his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village, in Greene's lighthearted variation on Cervantes. (SPN436, $16.00)
 		  
Spain in Mind  •  Alice Powers   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This literary A-to-Z includes selections by Auden, Hemingway, Michener, Twain, Orwell, Trollope, Wharton and other luminaries. (SPN290, $16.95)
 		  
The Fencing Master  •  Arturo Perez-Reverte   • MYSTERY  •  Thrills, romance and swordplay in 1860s Madrid. (SPN180, $14.00)
 		  
 
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