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Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay Spain
• Kathi Burton
• GUIDEBOOK
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Organized geographically, this opinionated guide includes authentic and unusual accommodations, each succinctly described.
(SPN438, $23.95)
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The Alchemist
• Paulo Coelho
• LITERATURE
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This international bestseller about the Andalucian shepherd boy Santiago, who learns how to live his dreams, includes an inspiring afterword by the author.
(SPN421, $14.99)
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The Alhambra
• Robert Irwin
• Mary Beard
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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In this brief, indispensable guide, Irwin introduces the stunning Moorish palace and fortress complex, revealing its mysteries, myths and significance with wit and insight.
(SPN226, $19.95)
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All About My Mother
• Pedro Almodovar
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A vivid and colorful slice of life about women, friendship and loss from the celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.
(SPN231, $29.95)
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Barcelona Map
• Borch Maps
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A detailed city map, laminated and folded for easy reference.
(SPN105, $7.95)
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Canary Islands Map
• Nelles
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A colorful shaded relief map of the Canary Islands.
(SPN43, $9.95)
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Complete Spanish
• Living Language
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Geared for fast results, this four-step program includes 40 lessons on CD and a coursebook.
(SPN434, $29.95)
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Dali
• Dawn Ades
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A compelling, thoroughly illustrated overview of Dali's art by a leading Dali scholar, this book is a fine companion for a trip to the Dali Museum in Figueres.
(SPN59, $18.95)
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Don Quixote
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Edith Grossman
• LITERATURE
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Grossman's sparkling new translation brings Quixote's 400-year-old novel into the 21st Century, abandoning the mock-chivalry of earlier translations for lively, uninflected prose.
(SPN211, $16.99)
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Don Quixote
• Miguel de Cervantes
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The beloved story of the romantic, mad Spanish gentleman who imagines himself a knight-errant, adapted for younger readers by the team of Mark Jenkins and Chris Riddell. This strikingly illustrated edition for ages 10-12 follows Don Quixote's misadventures across 16th-century Spain with humor and wit.
(SPN390, $27.99)
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Eyewitness Guide Canary Islands
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This compact, visually appealing guide features excellent short essays on the history, nature and attractions of the islands, color photographs and many maps.
(CNY05, $20.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This colorful guide includes excellent maps, essays and hundreds of photographs
(SPN222, $20.00)
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The Fencing Master
• Arturo Perez-Reverte
• MYSTERY
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Thrills, romance and swordplay in 1860s Madrid.
(SPN180, $14.00)
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Fodor's Barcelona's 25 Best
• Fodors
• GUIDEBOOK
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This slim guide includes an excellent map and essential information.
(SPN136, $11.95)
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Fodor's Exploring Spain
• Fodor's Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this book is an excellent overview of Italy and its attractions for visitors. Featuring separate sections on suggested places to visit, recommended walks, practical information, descriptions of restaurants and hotels, ratings of sights, and a chronology of historic events.
(SPN357, $22.00)
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Fodor's Madrid's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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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, $11.95)
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Frommer's Barcelona
• Peter Stone
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout.
(SPN406, $16.99)
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Frommer's Madrid
• Peter Stone
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout.
(SPN407, $17.99)
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Frommer's Seville Day by Day
• Jeremy Head
• GUIDEBOOK
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This compact shirt pocket guide is ideal for a short visit.
(SPN362, $12.99)
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Frommer's Seville, Granada & the Best of Andalusia
• Darwin Porter
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout.
(SPN408, $19.99)
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Frommer's Spain
• Danforth Prince
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout.
(SPN409, $24.99)
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Frommer's Valencia Day by Day
• Timothy Birch
• GUIDEBOOK
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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.
(SPN411, $12.99)
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Global Nomads, Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza (Spain) and Goa (India)
• Anthony D'Andrea
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The social life of mobile expatriates and the global countercultural circuit.
(GEN532, $39.95)
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Insight Compact Guide Costa Blanca
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This lavishly illustrated guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essys on history, culture and attractions.
(SPN432, $8.95)
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Insight Guide Spain
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This handsome travel guide gives a profusely illustrated overview of the region.
(SPN123, $23.95)
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Insight Pocket Guide Madrid
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A convenient practical guide to Madrid.
(SPN37, $12.95)
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A Late Dinner, Discovering the Food of Spain
• Paul Richardson
• FOOD
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A resident of Spain for the last 15 years, Richardson searches out the diversity and delight of Spain and its food in this engaging account of travels in search of a meal.
(SPN344, $24.00)
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Late Roman Spain and Its Cities
• Michael Kulikowski
• HISTORY
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Roman urban institutions and society in Spain.
(SPN425, $65.00)
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Lonely Planet Discover Spain
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated, full-color guide to Spain's history, highlights and culture, with suggested itineraries, maps and recommendations by local experts.
(SPN444, $24.99)
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Lonely Planet Hiking in Spain
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN APRIL
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With detailed practical information, color photography, 70 contour maps and good background on preparing for your trek.
(SPN446, $24.99)
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Lonely Planet Madrid Encounter
• Anthony Ham
• GUIDEBOOK
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This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map.
(SPN338, $12.99)
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Lonely Planet Mallorca
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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This comprehensive practical guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style includes local and regional color maps, a section of photographs, and chapters on history, culture and attractions.
(SPN422, $19.99)
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Lonely Planet Spanish Audio Pack
• Lonely Planet Publications
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This handy take-along phrasebook includes a CD with essential vocabulay for travelers.
(SPN392, $12.99)
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Lonely Planet Spanish Phrasebook
• Izaskun Arretxe
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• FAVORITE
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A handy Spanish phrasebook, with a short two-way dictionary.
(SPN182, $8.99)
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Made in Spain, Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen
• Jose Andres
• FOOD
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Andres takes in the great diversity of Spain, its culinary traditions, regional specialties and modern innovations in this cookbook and culinary tour, featuring dozens of superbly illustrated recipes. Each section is introduced with an excerpt's from the roving chef's journals.
(SPN366, $35.00)
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Madrid Map
• Borch Maps
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A detailed map of Madrid at a scale of 1:10,000, laminated and folded for easy reference.
(SPN106, $7.95)
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Mallorca Map
• World Mapping Project
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A detailed, traveler's map of Mallorca at a scale of 1:80,000, based on World Mapping Project cartography.
(SPN250, $9.99)
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Moon Spain
• Candy Lee LaBalle
• GUIDEBOOK
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A great resource for the independent traveler, this guidebook features a good introduction to land, history and culture, as well as practical detail on getting around, where to go, and where to stay. With personality, detailed local maps, glossary and suggested itineraries.
(SPN433, $24.95)
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Moorish Spain
• Richard Fletcher
• HISTORY
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The history and culture of Islam in Spain geared for the curious traveler.
(SPN110, $23.95)
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Nada
• Carmen LaForet
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Edith Grossman
• LITERATURE
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A classic of the literature of post-civil war Barcelona in a strong new translation by Edith Grossman.
(SPN346, $15.95)
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Negotiating Spain and Catalonia, Competing Narratives of National Identity
• Fernando Leon Solis
• HISTORY
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A scholarly analysis.
(SPN426, $39.95)
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Pauline Frommer's Spain
• Patricia Harris
• GUIDEBOOK
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A family-friendly, quirky practical guide by the daughter of travel guru Arthur Frommer. Her motto: "Spend Less, See More."
(SPN412, $21.99)
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Picasso, Master of the New Idea
• Paule du Bouchet
• Marie-Laure Bernadac
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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)
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Pintxos, Small Plates in the Basque Tradition
• Gerald Hirigoyen
• FOOD
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75 distinctive California-inflected versions of Spanish tapas and French Basque dishes.
(SPN428, $24.95)
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Purity of Blood
• Arturo Perez Reverte
• Margaret Sayers Peden
• LITERATURE
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In this second book in Perez-Reverte's wildly entertaining series, also memorably set in 17th-century Spain, our swashbuckling hero Captain Alatriste teams up with the great real-life poet Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, runs head on into the inquisition and encounters various degenerate royalty, including the Count-Duke of Olivares. It's all great fun, wonderfully rendered. Viggo Mortensen stars in the movie "Alatriste" due out Winter 2006.
(SPN281, $14.95)
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Red Sky at Sunrise
• Laurie Lee
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This autobiographical trilogy includes Lee's evocative account of his childhood idylls in the Cotswolds and an unforgettable portrait of his beloved Spain, both before and during the Civil War.
(SPN435, $28.95)
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Rough Guide Music Spain
• Various Artists
• MUSIC
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A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of Spain. Includes flamenco, carnival music, and regional music of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, Andalusia and Mallorca.
(SPN313, $14.95)
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Rough Guide Spain
• Rough Guide
• GUIDEBOOK
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For planning trips, this is an excellent, comprehensive and up-to-date guide.
(SPN159, $24.99)
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The Seville Communion
• Arturo Perez-Reverte
• MYSTERY
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In this third Perez-Reverte thriller, Vatican security officer Father Lorenzo Quartz -- a disciplined dandy -- investigates a disturbing plea sent by a computer hacker to the pope through the church's security system. The message leads him to Seville.
(SPN278, $14.00)
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Seville Map
• Streetwise Maps
• FAVORITE
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A laminated, folded walking map of Seville.
(SPN221, $7.95)
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Spain in Mind
• Alice Powers
• ANTHOLOGY
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This literary A-to-Z includes selections by Auden, Hemingway, Michener, Twain, Orwell, Trollope, Wharton and other luminaries.
(SPN290, $15.95)
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Spain: A History
• Raymond Carr
• HISTORY
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A clearly written, concise history of Spain with contributions by leading scholars.
(SPN235, $19.95)
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The Spanish Bow
• Andromeda Romano-Lax
• LITERATURE
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Romano-Lax's debut novel, set against the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War, explores the complicated friendship of two Spanish musicians and the difficult choices they must make, with well-placed appearances by many leading figures at the time.
(SPN332, $15.00)
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The Spanish Game
• Charles Cumming
• MYSTERY
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Alec Milieus gets tangled up in Basque politics in this third thriller by the wickedly good Cumming.
(SPN437, $14.99)
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The Spanish Table, Traditional Recipes and Wine Pairings from Spain and Portugal
• Steve Winston
• FOOD
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Full of traditional recipes and wine pairings as well as helpful tips for using paella pans, cazuelas, cataplanas, ollas and other cookware unique to the region.
(SPN415, $30.00)
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Spanish, Start Speaking Today!
• Language/30
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 90-minute crash course in Spanish featured in two compact discs and a phrasebook packaged in a vinyl sleeve. Geared for travelers, the course follows the foreign service method, which focuses on dialogues and sentences.
(SPN219, $24.95)
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Speak the Culture Spain
• Andrew Whittaker
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Whittaker introduces Spain though its cultural heroes, art, books, movies, food, habits and history in this uncommon cultural guide.
(SPN391, $24.95)
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The Story of Spain, The Dramatic History of Europe's Most Fascinating Country
• Mark R. Williams
• HISTORY
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Geared for students and travelers, this concise history covers the momentour events, personalities and legacy of Spain.
(SPN429, $22.95)
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Tapas, The Little Dishes of Spain
• Penelope Casas
• FOOD
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A delightful introduction to tapas, Spain's typical small plate dishes by Penelope Casas, a wonderful writer and expert in Spanish cuisine.
(SPN247, $30.00)
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The Tomb in Seville, Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
• Norman Lewis
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Ostensibly in Spain with his brother-in-law to locate and report on the tomb of the title, Lewis finds their 1934 trip from north to south confounded by developing political events. He looks back at his adventure on the brink of the Spanish Civil War in this sharply observed account.
(SPN264, $14.95)
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Travelers' Tales Spain
• Lucy McCauly
• ANTHOLOGY
• OUT OF PRINT
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A collection of mostly contemporary writing on Spain by such diverse luminaries as Calvin Trillin, Robert Hughes, Jan Morris and Garcia Lorca. It's a delightful portrait of the country.
(SPN09, $19.95)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Ernest Hemingway
• LITERATURE
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Hemingway's great novel about the Spanish Civil War is a love story set during the four-day fight of anti-fascist units in the mountains.
(SPN19, $16.00)
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