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Aragon Cataluna (Northeastern Spain) Map
• Michelin
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A travel map of northeastern Spain at a scale 1:400,000.
(SPN112, $8.95)
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Barcelona
• Warner Home Video
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An acclaimed comedy by Whit Stilman featuring American expatriates living in Barcelona.
(SPN64, $19.95)
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Basque-English Dictionary and Phrasebook
• Joseph Conroy
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A shirt-pocket guide to the Basque language, useful for travelers to Northern Spain and Southwest France.
(SPN128, $11.95)
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Boundaries, The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees
• Peter Sahlins
• HISTORY
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A study of national identity in Catalonia, Cerdanya and the border lands between France and Spain, with an overview of their demarcation and arbitrary division in 1659.
(SPN154, $26.95)
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Bradt Guide Canary Islands
• Lucy Corne
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the popular Bradt series by a Las Palmas resident and journalist. With city and town plans and in-depth coverage of destinations throughout the archipelago.
(CNY06, $21.95)
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The Buried Mirror
• Carlos Fuentes
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A fascinating, illustrated survey of Latin American culture and history by the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. With hundreds of color illustrations.
(SPN71, $29.95)
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The Camino, A Journey of the Spirit
• Shirley MacLaine
• RELIGION
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The much-reincarnated, ever-brave entertainer treks 500-miles across Northern Spain on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Campostela. She's a tough woman, spending 30 days on the road, sleeping in hostels en route.
(SPN127, $14.95)
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Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
• Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. It features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and plenty more information.
(MED07, $12.95)
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Companion Guide Madrid and Central Spain
• Alastair Boyd
• GUIDEBOOK
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A scholarly, entertaining and thorough guide to the region.
(SPN24, $34.95)
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Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain
• Vivian B. Mann
• Jerilynn Dodds
• Thomas F. Glick
• HISTORY
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The "Golden Age" of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian coexistence in Spain.
(SPN73, $39.95)
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Cultural Atlas of Spain and Portugal
• Mary Vincent
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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With its 40 maps, 240 photographs and insightful essays on all aspects of Iberian geography and culture, this handsome book is an excellent introduction to the region.
(SPN34, $45.00)
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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, $16.95)
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Dali
• Ignacio Gomez De Liano
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautiful oversize volume featuring more than 100 reproductions of Dali's works.
(SPN77, $29.95)
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The End of Days, A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
• Erna Paris
• HISTORY
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The story of the dramatic changes in Spain leading to the Spanish Inquisition.
(SPN56, $39.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Madrid
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide features bright color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the attractions in and around Madrid.
(SPN122, $20.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Spain
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb, colorful guide covers all of Spain. It features bright photography, dozens of excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(SPN05, $30.00)
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Farewell Espana, The World of the Sephardim Remembered
• Howard Morley Sachar
• HISTORY
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A history of Spanish Jews by a well known scholar. Sachar covers not only the rise, persecution, and expulsion of the Spanish Jews, but also their dispersion across Europe and in the Americas.
(SPN57, $20.00)
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Frank O. Gehry Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
• Ralph Richter
• Kurt Forster
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A photographic tribute to Gehry's architectural masterpiece, the Guggenheim Bilbao, with an introductory essay by Kurt Forster, a selection of floor plans and full-page color photographs of the museum.
(SPN103, $39.00)
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Frank O. Gehry, The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
• Coosje Van Bruggen
• Frank O. Gehry
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• OUT OF PRINT
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A beautifully illustrated testimonial to the celebrated architecture of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, covering not only the finished building but documenting the process from idea to reality. Published by the Guggenheim.
(SPN52, $55.00)
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The French
• Theodore Zeldin
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• OUT OF PRINT
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A stimulating and very entertaining social history in the guise of a "how-to" book. Zeldin considers, for example, such imponderables as when to laugh at a joke, how to be friends with a peasant, and how to eat properly.
(FRN31, $17.00)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Goya
• Jose Gudiol
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• COMING IN SEPTEMBER
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An overview of Goya's work in the excellent "Masters of Art" series. The book begins with an illustrated essay on Goya's art, and continues with reproductions of important works.
(SPN79, $34.00)
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Goya, Painter of Terrible Splendor
• Jeanine Baticle
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A pocket-size encyclopedia, this slim book is an illustrated overview of the life and times of Goya. It's an illuminating portrait of 18th-century Madrid.
(SPN35, $12.95)
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Heart of Spain: Robert Capa
• Robert Capa
• HISTORY
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Capra's Civil War photography.
(SPN99, $29.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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A History of Medieval Spain
• Joseph F. O'Callaghan
• HISTORY
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A detailed history of the Medieval kingdoms of Iberia.
(SPN10, $29.95)
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Imperial Spain, 1469-1716
• John H. Elliott
• HISTORY
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An authoritative history of Imperial Spain.
(SPN138, $17.00)
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Insight Guide Barcelona
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent, illustrated overview with essays on art, architecture, history and culture.
(SPN75, $19.95)
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The Jews of Spain
• Jane S. Gerber
• HISTORY
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A straightforward, readable history of Jewish life in Spain. The book covers life in Spain up to the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, and continues with chapters on the Sephardic diaspora.
(SPN72, $21.50)
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Journey Through the Ice Age
• Paul Bahn
• Jean Vertut
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• OUT OF PRINT
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Illustrated with extraordinary color photographs by Jean Vertut, this authoritative book is an excellent summary of Paleolithic art, and particularly of cave paintings, throughout Europe.
(EUR07, $27.50)
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Karen Brown's Spain, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
• Lorena Aburto
• Clare Brown
• Cynthia Sauvage
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to lodging of character and itineraries.
(SPN149, $19.95)
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Life and Food in the Basque Country
• Maria Jose Sevilla
• FOOD
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A portrait of Basque life as seen through the people who practice its culinary traditions. Each chapter profiles the ways and history of the Basque butcher, fisherman, housewife, kaiku-maker or society cook, with some traditional recipes.
(SPN125, $14.95)
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
• J.M. Cohen
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Utterly transformed by her religious experiences and converted at age forty, Saint Teresa feared false mysticism and maintained an analytical and critical view of ecstasy. This book is widely read in Spain.
(SPN18, $13.00)
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Lonely Planet Barcelona
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive city guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style.
(SPN158, $19.99)
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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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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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The Medieval Spains
• Bernard F. Reilly
• HISTORY
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A short scholarly history of Iberia.
(SPN98, $28.99)
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Modern Spain
• Raymond Carr
• HISTORY
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A survey of Spanish history from 1875 to the advent of King Juan Carlos in 1980.
(SPN152, $24.95)
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Northeast Spain Map
• Kummerly & Frey Maps
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A colorful shaded relief map showing all of northeast Spain.
(SPN65, $12.95)
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Northwest Spain Map 571
• Michelin Travel Publications
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A nicely detailed regional map of northwest Spain at a scale of 1:400,000. It covers from just north and west of Madrid to the Atlantic Coast, including northern Portugal.
(SPN53, $8.95)
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Pallas Guide Andalucia
• Michael Jacobs
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, illustrated, and highly informative guidebook to the region.
(SPN20, $29.95)
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Picasso
• Patrick O'Brian
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Patrick O'Brian, who knew the artist, covers the life and work of Picasso.
(SPN86, $18.95)
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Picasso
• Hans L. Jaffe
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic overview of Picasso's art with reproductions of important works.
(SPN85, $19.98)
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Picasso
• Jean-Louis Ferrier
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This oversize paperback is a thoroughly illustrated study of Picasso's art over the decades. Each essay features gorgeous color reproductions.
(SPN84, $27.50)
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Picasso
• Timothy Hilton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An extended illustrated essay on Picasso's achievement and place in 20th-century art.
(SPN82, $16.95)
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Picasso
• Christian-Peter Warncke
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated color Tashen monograph featuring the works of Picasso.
(SPN90, $20.00)
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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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Pilgrim Stories, On and Off the Road to Santiago
• Nancy Louise Frey
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The sights, sounds -- and meaning -- of modern journeys along the "Camino de Santiago," according to interviews with those who travel it.
(SPN46, $22.95)
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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela
• William Melczer
• GUIDEBOOK
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This is the original guide used by 12th-century pilgrims along the sacred way, reprinted with an introduction by a professor of medieval studies, endnotes and a gazeteer. It's an excellent, hugely informative presentation of this curiosity.
(SPN42, $25.00)
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The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago, The Complete Cultural Handbook
• David Gitlitz
• Linda Kay Davidson
• GUIDEBOOK
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A kilometer-by-kilometer guide to the way of St. James. Organized geographically, this comprehensive guide is a survey of the pilgrimage route across northern Spain.
(SPN137, $23.95)
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The Pilgrimage to Santiago
• Edwin Mullins
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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Mullins travels (not always by foot) in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims from Paris, across the Pyrenees and through Northern Spain to Santiago de Campostela in this classic account.
(SPN130, $15.00)
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The Pilgrimage, A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
• Paulo Coelho
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The Portuguese author's experiences along the historic Road to Santiago.
(SPN47, $13.95)
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Pilgrimages, The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages
• John Ure
• HISTORY
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(EUR202, $15.95)
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The Prado
• Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Highlights of the Prado Museum in Madrid, featuring 320 illustrations of art collected by the kings and queens over centuries, including works by Goya, Rubens, Velazquez and El Greco.
(SPN104, $35.00)
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The Quest for El Cid
• Richard Fletcher
• HISTORY
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A reevaluation of the legendary eleventh-century warrior El Cid.
(SPN141, $17.95)
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Road of Stars to Santiago
• Edward Stanton
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A 30-day pilgrimage by foot across Northern Spain along the Camino de Santiago.
(SPN51, $30.00)
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Road to Santiago
• Michael Jacobs
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, illustrated guide to the Medieval pilgrimage route across the Pyrenees and Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Jacobs is a lively, literate author.
(SPN139, $27.50)
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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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A Season in Granada, Uncollected Poems & Prose
• Garcia Lorca
• Christopher Maurer
• LITERATURE
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A selection of poems and prose in celebration of Granada, where Garcia Lorca was raised, studied and spent much of his short life.
(SPN117, $13.95)
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Spain & Portugal Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful, shaded relief map of the entire Iberian Peninsula at a scale of 1:700,000.
(SPN22, $12.95)
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Spain 1469-1714, A Society of Conflict
• Henry Kamen
• HISTORY
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A vivid history of the Golden Age of imperial Spain.
(SPN69, $68.40)
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Spain and Its World, 1500-1700
• John H. Elliott
• HISTORY
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A wide-ranging overview by the pre-eminent historian of the Imperial Age of Spain.
(SPN48, $24.00)
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Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
• Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina
• HISTORY
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(SPN93, $40.00)
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Spain, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Peter R. Bush
• Lisa Dillman
• ANTHOLOGY
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These 30 short stories include a who's who of contemporary Spanish literature.
(SPN173, $13.95)
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The Spanish Inquisition
• Cecil Roth
• HISTORY
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This documents the events leading up to the Inquisition, the torment that spread from Spain to Portugal and the New World -- a fascinating exploration of the roots of the Inquisition and its effects on the country.
(SPN91, $15.95)
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The Spanish Inquisition, A Historical Revision
• Henry Kamen
• HISTORY
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A vivid, revisionist history of the Spanish Inquisition.
(SPN144, $23.00)
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The Spanish Labyrinth, An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War
• Gerald Brenan
• HISTORY
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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, $22.99)
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The Spanish Seaborne Empire
• J.H. Parry
• HISTORY
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A classic study of colonial Spain's impact on the Americas.
(SPN70, $26.95)
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The Story of the Moors in Spain
• Stanley Lane-Poole
• HISTORY
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A wonderfully readable, sweeping tale of splendor and tragedy, first published in 1866.
(SPN12, $18.95)
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The Sun Also Rises
• Ernest Hemingway
• LITERATURE
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Hemingway's great novel, which encapsulates the angst of the post-WWI "lost generation," is the story of unmoored American and British expats travelling from Paris to Pamplona.
(SPN33, $15.00)
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Surrealism
• Fiona Bradley
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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The history of the Surrealist movement including Magritte, Ernst, Dali, and others.
(SPN83, $19.99)
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Time Out Barcelona
• Time Out
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide by the hipsters at Time Out, with an overview of the city -- and excellent recommendations on where to eat, shop and loiter.
(SPN92, $19.95)
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To the Heart of Spain: Food and Wine Adventures beyond the Pyrenees
• Ann Walker
• Larry Walker
• FOOD
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A celebration of Spain and its food.
(SPN95, $14.95)
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The Trap
• Ana Maria Matute
• LITERATURE
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A feminist perspective on events surrounding the Spanish Civil War.
(SPN60, $15.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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Trekking & Climbing in Northern Spain
• Jim Thompson
• Ilja Schroeder
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide to favorite treks and climbs in the Pyrenees, Picos de Europa and Cantabrica.
(SPN196, $19.95)
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Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: Lazarillo de Tormes, The Swindler
• Francisco de Quevedo
• Michael Alpert
• LITERATURE
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A pair of tales that helped lay the foundation for the Spanish novel.
(SPN108, $14.00)
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The Walker's Literary Companion
• Robert Gilbert
• Anne Wallace
• Jeffrey Robinson
• ANTHOLOGY
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A diverse sampling of literature on the pleasures of walking, representing philosophers, naturalists, outcasts, athletes and intellectuals from Plato to Frank O'Hara.
(WLK08, $24.00)
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Walking in the Cordillera Cantabrica
• Robin Walker
• GUIDEBOOK
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A detailed, practical guide in the British series.
(SPN194, $24.95)
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Way of St James: Pyrenees, Santiago, Finisterre
• Alison Raju
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to the Spanish half of the Pilgrim's Road.
(SPN202, $16.95)
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Western Picos de Europa Map
• Adrados Ediciones
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A folded topographic for walkers and hikers.
(SPN198, $11.95)
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