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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherTravelers' Tales/Solas House, Inc.
ISBN-101885211074
ISBN-139781885211071
eBay Product ID (ePID)1095764
Product Key Features
Book TitleSpain : True Stories
Number of PagesN/A Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicEurope / Spain & Portugal
GenreTravel
AuthorGabriel García Márquez
Book SeriesTravelers' Tales Guides Ser.
FormatBook, Other
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight26.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal914.604
SynopsisA travel anthology on Spain, which includes pieces by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Elms, George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway.
This title contains some fab and informative travel writing. The piece Seeing Red, alone is worth the price of the book for its depiction of tomato festival delirium and mayhem. You'll want to be there drenched in red and throwing tomatoes after you read it. Spanish festivals can be cathartic. Not all the pieces are superb, nor are all travelers. But as someone who has been to Spain and is headed back, this book has been keeping my love for it alive while hunkered down in an old and rundown US metropolis that hasn't anything to compare with the spirit of fun and banishment for ogres found in the festivals of Spain. This book can also make it clear which areas a traveler might want to avoid or spend more time in; there are plenty of lesser traveled spots highlighted here, too. Want a peek into the Spanish psyche before you go? Get it here.