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Eyewitness Guide Barcelona & Catalonia
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 176 PAGES
A superbly illustrated, compact guide to the city and environs, featuring 500 photographs and dozens of full color maps, site plans and building diagrams. It also includes a select listing the hotels, restaurants, cafes and bars, and shops. One short chapter covers Girona, Tarragona, Figueres and other attractions throughout Catalonia. Excellent.
(SPN121, $20.00)
Barcelona
Robert Hughes
HISTORY 1993 PAPER 570 PAGES
FAVORITE
A masterful cultural history of the city, from its days as a Roman outpost to the present. Thoroughly enjoyable, this book takes a comprehensive look at the architecture, art, religion and literature of this great Catalan city and its surroundings. With 180 photographs.
(SPN01, $18.95)
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 1987 PAPER 234 PAGES
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. In part, this book is the simply told story of a wide-eyed soldier caught up in revolutionary fervor and the allure of Spain.
(SPN03, $14.00)
Barcelona Map
Borch Maps
2005 MAP
A detailed map of Barcelona at a scale of 1:11,000, laminated and folded for easy reference.
(SPN105, $7.95)
Aragon Cataluna (Northeast Spain) Map
Michelin
A travel map of northeastern Spain at a scale 1:400,000.
(SPN112, $8.95)
Fodor's Barcelona's 25 Best
Fodors
GUIDEBOOK
This slim guide includes an excellent map and essential information.
(SPN136, $11.95)
Fodor's See It Barcelona
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
Fodor's vibrant and informative guide to touring Barcelona.
(SPN234, $22.95)
Insight Guide Barcelona
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
An excellent, illustrated overview with essays on art, architecture, history and culture.
(SPN75, $19.95)
Teach Yourself Catalan
Alan Yates
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A basic course in Catalan, in the 'Teach Yourself' series, this book is divided into 30 lessons. Each incorporates key grammar, vocabulary and phrases.
(SPN129, $17.95)
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)
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)
Barcelona
Warner Home Video
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An acclaimed comedy by Whit Stilman featuring American expatriates living in Barcelona.
(SPN64, $19.95)
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, $22.95)
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 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, $22.99)
Antonio Gaudi, Master Architect
Juan Bassegoda Nonell
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This lavishly illustrated collection of Gaudi's work captures the evolution, imagination and exhuberance of one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
(SPN374, $35.00)
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)
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)
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)
Barcelona, The Great Enchantress
Robert Hughes
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Written ten years after Hughes's book Barcelona, this is a personal exploration of the history, art and architecture of the city.
(SPN227, $10.95)
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)
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, $14.95)
Travelers' Tales Spain
Lucy McCauly
ANTHOLOGY
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)
Nada
Carmen LaForet
Mario Vargas Llosa
Edith Grossman
LITERATURE
A classic of the literature of post-civil war Barcelona in a strong new translation by Edith Grossman.
(SPN346, $15.95)
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
LITERATURE
Set in 1950s Barcelona, this gripping story-within-a-story has it all: murder, doomed love and a mysterious book which draws the young hero, Daniel Sempere, into the city's dangerous underworld.
(SPN298, $15.00)
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