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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Seville and Andalusia
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
286 PAGES
This wonderfully organized and visually rich guide fea-tures excellent maps, essays on the culture, history and geography of the region, and a practical block-by-block guide to Seville
(SPN15, $23.00) |
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Fodor's Lisbon's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
128 PAGES
This slim guide to Lisbon includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing -- all in a slipcover.
(PGL40, $11.95) |
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Fodor's Madrid's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
120 PAGES
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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Spain & Portugal Map
Freytag & Berndt
2006
MAP
A colorful, shaded relief map of the entire Iberian Peninsula at a scale of 1:700,000. With a 64-page booklet including an index and city plans of Barcelona, Lisbon and Madrid. Two Sides. 50x35 inches.
(SPN22, $14.95) |
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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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Eyewitness Guide Lisbon
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, illustrated guide to the city featuring excellent neighborhood maps and hundreds of color photographs. It also includes chapters on the surrounding areas and Lisbon's coast.
(PGL04, $20.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Spain
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This superb, colorful guide covering all of Spain features bright photography, dozens of maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions.
(SPN05, $30.00) |
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Rick Steves' Spanish Phrase Book & Dictionary
Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary.
(SPN178, $8.95) |
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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, $35.00) |
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The Food of Portugal
Jean Anderson
FOOD
An award-winning cookbook featuring the cuisine of Portugal and background on Portuguese culture. Sure to please the palates of tourists interested in Portuguese food, and of emigrants in search of that authentic taste of home.
(PGL10, $19.95) |
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A Traveller's History of Portugal
Ian Robertson
HISTORY
A lively, admirably concise survey from prehistory to the present, great for travelers to Portugal who would like an overview of the country's history and culture.
(PGL32, $14.95) |
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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) |
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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, $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 everyday life of Spaniards.
(SPN08, $16.00) |
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The Ornament of the World, How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Maria Rosa Menocal
Harold Bloom
RELIGION
A lively, illuminating portrait of the Andalucian Kingdom, its cultural achievements and religious tolerance from the eighth century to 1492.
(SPN185, $15.99) |
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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 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 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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The Prado
Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez
ART & ARCHITECTURE
COMING IN
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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Driving over Lemons, An Optimist in Andalucia
Chris Stewart
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Chris Stewart's memoir about moving with his wife to a farm in Alpujarras is charming and insightful. Unlike many expatriates, Stewart manages to ground himself far enough into the community to make lasting friends -- as well as a home for his young daughter.
(SPN135, $13.95) |
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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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Old Man Goya
Julia Blackburn
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Taking 1792--the year that Goya went deaf--as her starting point, Julia Blackburn chronicles the painter's fruitful last 35 years in captivating, imaginative detail.
(SPN171, $13.95) |
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Spanish Lessons, Beginnings of a New Life in Spain
Derek Lambert
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A witty narrative of life as an ex-pat in a small town near Alicante by the erstwhile British journalist. The writer, who had spent a career covering conflicts across the globe, finds a keen eye and sharp humor for telling his tale.
(SPN150, $19.00) |
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Spain, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Peter R. Bush
Lisa Dillman
ANTHOLOGY
These 30 short stories include a who's who of contemporary Spanish literature.
(SPN173, $13.95) |
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A Small Death in Lisbon
Robert Wilson
MYSTERY
Set in Lisbon in 1941 and 1999, this award-winning mystery intertwines a present day murder, some unsavory arms production, and smuggling in Nazi Germany. Be warned, there are some graphic passages dealing with the horrors of war and concentration camps.
(PGL22, $7.99) |
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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, $13.00) |
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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, $16.00) |
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Jose Saramago
Giovanni Pontiero
LITERATURE
In this historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author, the past is rewritten when a Portuguese proofreader adds a false word to a history book, resulting in a whole new perception of the Siege of Lisbon.
(PGL11, $14.00) |
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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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All About My Mother
Pedro Almodovar
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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