A Brit's Scrapbook: Going Native in Murcia |
Debbie Jenkins, Marcus Jenkins ISBN: 1905430213 Sorry - no summary available. |
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A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sort of Sequel to "Driving Over Lemons" |
Chris Stewart ISBN: 095352275X Chris Stewart turns another leaf on his life in southern Spain in this "Sort Of" sequel to his biography, "Driving Over Lemons". It is in fact part sequel - further (mis)adventures of Chris and his family on their remote Andalusian...(read more) |
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning |
Laurie Lee ISBN: 0140033181 This autobiographical volume describes the author's departure from Stroud, his walk to London, and his months in Spain on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. His other works include "A Moment of War" and "Cider With Rosie". |
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Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life |
Ian Gibson ISBN: 0571142249 Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as...(read more) |
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Franco: A Biography |
Paul Preston ISBN: 0006862101 Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book. The biography presents a...(read more) |
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Gaudi: A Biography |
Gijs Van Hensbergen ISBN: 0006548784 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Getting to Mañana |
Miranda Innes ISBN: 0552770981 In 1996, former Country Living garden-editor, Miranda Innes decided to change her life completely. Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her long-standing partner, she and her son spied a romantic ruin in Andalusia amid its own...(read more) |
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Goya (Art & Ideas S.) |
Sarah Symmons ISBN: 0714837512 This is a study of Francisco Goya (1746-1828), the Spanish painter and graphic artist whose work ranges from elegant and opulent royal portraits to dark depictions of horror and evil. Goya's career was a great triumph in the history of Spanish art....(read more) |
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Guernica: A Biography |
Gijs Van Hensbergen ISBN: 0747568731 ‘This history of a painting is an astonishing achievement, a cornucopia of startlingly original insights’ Paul...(read more) |
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No Going Back: Journey to Mother's Garden |
Martin Kirby ISBN: 0751535486 There's a sign hanging just inside the broad and battered front door of our ramshackle farmhouse that reads 'Deu Vos Guard'. On the day we bought our tiny patch of Catalonia a new friend who lives across the valley laughingly translated it as God...(read more) |
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The Lone Brit on 13: A Prisoner's Hell in Spain's Toughest Jail |
Christopher Chance ISBN: 1840189576 The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence, degradation and adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell. Imprisoned for almost two years for drug-smuggling, the lone Brit on Wing 13, Chance, reveals the horrors he...(read more) |
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Voices of the Old Sea |
Norman Lewis ISBN: 0330345613 Describes Norman Lewis's three post-war successive summers in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now the Costa Brava. The book records the villagers' struggle to sustain their precarious existence and to defend it against the enticements...(read more) |
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