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Aragon Cataluna (Northeast Spain) Map
Michelin
A travel map of northeastern Spain at a scale 1:400,000.
(SPN112, $8.95) |
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The Arts in Spain, From Prehistory to Modernism
John Moffit
ART & ARCHITECTURE
From the cave painting at Altimira through the Golden Age, to the works of Picasso and Miro, this book documents the course of art in Spain, with 150 illustrations.
(SPN102, $18.95) |
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Barcelona
Robert Hughes
HISTORY
FAVORITE
This masterful cultural history examines the city's architecture, art, religion and literature from its days as a Roman outpost to the present. Thoroughly enjoyable and illustrated with 180 mostly black-and-white photographs, it's a Longitude favorite.
(SPN01, $18.95) |
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Barcelona
Warner Home Video
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An acclaimed comedy by Whit Stilman featuring American expatriates living in Barcelona.
(SPN64, $19.95) |
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Barcelona Map
Borch Maps
A detailed city map, laminated and folded for easy reference.
(SPN105, $7.95) |
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The Basque Kitchen, Tempting Food from the Pyrenees
Gerald Hirigoyen
Cameron Hirigoyen
FOOD
Basque recipes, both traditional and modern, by the celebrated chef (and owner of San Francisco's Piperade), originally from Biarritz.
(SPN217, $39.95) |
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Boundaries, The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees
Peter Sahlins
HISTORY
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
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
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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Cadogan Bilbao & the Basque Lands
Michael Pauls
GUIDEBOOK
A practical region-by-region guide in the British series with good maps as well as introductory chapters on the history and culture of the Basque country of northern Spain.
(SPN207, $18.95) |
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The Cave Painters
Gregory Curtis
ART & ARCHITECTURE
NEW
Curtis introduces the masterworks of cave art, the Paleolithic and paleoarchaeology in this tour of Altamira, Lascaux, Les Trois-Freres, Cosquer, Chauvet and other caves in France and Spain.
(FRN620, $14.95) |
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Companion Guide Madrid and Central Spain
Alastair Boyd
GUIDEBOOK
A scholarly, entertaining and thorough guide to the region.
(SPN24, $34.95) |
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Cultural Atlas of Spain and Portugal
Mary Vincent
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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
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
A beautiful oversize volume featuring more than 100 reproductions of Dali's works.
(SPN77, $29.95) |
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Discovering Spain, An Uncommon Guide
Penelope Casas
GUIDEBOOK
A wonderful, personable guide to Spain filled with history and culture and infused with the author's wit and love for her country. Casas dedicates a chapter to each of Spain's 12 parts. Highly recommended.
(SPN31, $25.00) |
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
John Rutherford
LITERATURE
The most famous work in Spanish literature, rendered in a lively, modern translation. It is the picaresque tale of a romantic, mad gentleman who imagines himself a knight errant.
(SPN23, $12.00) |
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The End of Days, A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Erna Paris
HISTORY
The story of the dramatic changes in Spain leading to the Spanish Inquisition.
(SPN56, $39.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Barcelona & Catalonia
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This superbly illustrated guide features color maps, site plans and 500 color photographs.
(SPN121, $20.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Madrid
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
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
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
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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Food and Wines of Spain
Penelope Casas
FOOD
A classic collection of 400 recipes, interwoven with cultural commentary and culinary history. A pleasure to read, but prepare to become hungry.
(SPN100, $30.00) |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
LITERATURE
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, $15.00) |
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Frank O. Gehry, The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Coosje Van Bruggen
Frank O. Gehry
ART & ARCHITECTURE
OUT OF PRINT
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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Goya
Jose Gudiol
ART & ARCHITECTURE
COMING IN OCTOBER
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
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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Guggenheim NY/Guggenheim Bilbao
Jeff Goldberg
Ezra Stoller
ART & ARCHITECTURE
The Guggenheim New York and the Guggenheim Bilbao are compared through photographs in this new, compact (small enough for your palm) book.
(SPN115, $14.95) |
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Heart of Spain: Robert Capa
Robert Capa
HISTORY
Capra's Civil War photography.
(SPN99, $29.95) |
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Here Is Where We Meet
John Berger
LITERATURE
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
A detailed history of the Medieval kingdoms of Iberia.
(SPN10, $29.95) |
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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) |
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Iberia, Spanish Travels & Reflections
James Michener
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
In this best-selling travelogue, Michener presents a compulsively readable and well-observed account of his love affair with Spain and all things Spanish. It has achieved the status of a classic, rich in detail and insightful.
(SPN16, $8.99) |
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Imperial Spain, 1469-1716
John H. Elliott
HISTORY
An authoritative history of Imperial Spain.
(SPN138, $17.00) |
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Insight Guide Barcelona
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
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
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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Karen Brown's Spain, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
Lorena Aburto
Clare Brown
Cynthia Sauvage
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to lodging of character and itineraries.
(SPN149, $19.95) |
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
J.M. Cohen
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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
A comprehensive city guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style.
(SPN158, $19.99) |
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Madrid Map
Borch Maps
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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Majorca Map
Borch Maps
A handy laminated road map of Majorca in full color at a scale of 1:160,000, with supplementary maps.
(SPN310, $10.95) |
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Mammals of Europe
Priscilla Barrett
David W. MacDonald
FIELD GUIDE
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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Marks of Identity
Juan Goytisolo
Gregory Rabassa
LITERATURE
Banned under Franco, this is the story of a man struggling to get along without love for his country or himself. The author has written a number of novels concerning Spain on the periphery of the Western and Islamic worlds.
(SPN25, $15.00) |
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Medieval European Pilgrimage, C.700-C.1500
Diana Webb
HISTORY
A scholarly history.
(EUR242, $33.95) |
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The Medieval Spains
Bernard F. Reilly
HISTORY
A short scholarly history of Iberia.
(SPN98, $28.99) |
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Modern Spain
Raymond Carr
HISTORY
A survey of Spanish history from 1875 to the advent of King Juan Carlos in 1980.
(SPN152, $24.95) |
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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 the everyday life of Spaniards.
(SPN08, $16.00) |
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Northeast Spain Map
Kummerly & Frey Maps
OUT OF PRINT
A colorful shaded relief map showing all of northeast Spain.
(SPN65, $12.95) |
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Northern Spain Map
Freytag & Berndt
A nicely detailed, overview map of Northern Spain and the Way of St. James at a scale of 1:500,000.
(SPN245, $11.95) |
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Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe
Barry W Cunliffe
HISTORY
Dozens of experts contributed essays to this illustrated account of the sweep of early human history in Europe from the Paleolithic to the fall of the Roman Empire, featuring 300 well-integrated maps, photographs and site plans.
(EUR32, $31.95) |
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Picasso
Patrick O'Brian
ART & ARCHITECTURE
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
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
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
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
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
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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The Prado
Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez
ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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Prehistoric Art in Europe
N.K. Sanders
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An overview of European prehistoric art, well illustrated with black-and-white photos, line drawings and maps. This book places the cave art in southwestern France within the larger context of prehistoric art.
(EUR02, $37.00) |
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The Pyrenees
Kev Reynolds
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to the high Pyrenees from the Cirque de Lescun in the west to the Carlit massif and Cerdagne east of Andorrain, first in a new series by Cicerone Press.
(SPN228, $25.00) |
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Pyrenees & Andorra Map
World Mapping Project
A detailed, traveler's map at a good scale of the Pyrenees, including Andorra, based on World Mapping Project cartography.
(SPN249, $9.99) |
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The Quest for El Cid
Richard Fletcher
HISTORY
A reevaluation of the legendary eleventh-century warrior El Cid.
(SPN141, $17.95) |
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Rough Guide Spain
Rough Guide
GUIDEBOOK
For planning trips, this is an excellent, comprehensive and up-to-date guide.
(SPN159, $24.99) |
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Spain & Portugal Map
Freytag & Berndt
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
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
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
(SPN93, $40.00) |
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The Spanish Inquisition
Cecil Roth
HISTORY
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
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
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
A classic study of colonial Spain's impact on the Americas.
(SPN70, $26.95) |
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Spanish, Start Speaking Today! (Cassette Tapes)
Educational Services Corporation
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A 90-minute crash course in Spanish featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook.
(SPN140, $21.95) |
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The Story of the Moors in Spain
Stanley Lane-Poole
HISTORY
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
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
The history of the Surrealist movement including Magritte, Ernst, Dali, and others.
(SPN83, $19.99) |
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Sweet Promised Land
Robert Laxalt
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A memoir of a Basque sheepherders life in America and his return visit to the Pyrennes.
(SWU50, $18.00) |
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Through the Spanish Pyrenees: GR11, A Long Distance Footpath
Paul Lucia
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive, practical guide to the coast-to-coast sereis of trails and footpaths.
(SPN229, $19.95) |
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Time Out Barcelona
Time Out
GUIDEBOOK
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
A celebration of Spain and its food.
(SPN95, $14.95) |
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The Trap
Ana Maria Matute
LITERATURE
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
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
A compact guide to favorite treks and climbs in the Pyrenees, Picos de Europa and Cantabrica.
(SPN196, $19.95) |
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Trekking in the Pyrenees: France & Spain
Douglas Streatfield-James
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to 80 day hikes, climbs and treks throughout the Pyrennes, focusing on route descriptions, maps and detailed travel information.
(SPN126, $19.95) |
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Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: Lazarillo de Tormes, The Swindler
Francisco de Quevedo
Michael Alpert
LITERATURE
A pair of tales that helped lay the foundation for the Spanish novel.
(SPN108, $14.00) |
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Walking in the Cordillera Cantabrica
Robin Walker
GUIDEBOOK
A detailed, practical guide in the British series.
(SPN194, $24.95) |
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Western Picos de Europa Map
Adrados Ediciones
A folded topographic for walkers and hikers.
(SPN198, $11.95) |
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Wild Spain, A Traveller's Guide
Frederic Grunfeld
GUIDEBOOK
A brief, illustrated survey of the national parks and wilderness areas of Spain, organized geographically.
(SPN96, $19.95) |
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