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Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion
- Item Number
- 153
- Estimated Value
- 15 USD
- Sold
- 5 USD to jcalpro
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Spain has long been, and remains today, a favorite destination for world and armchair travelers alike. From the timeless windmills of La Mancha depicted in Cervante’s Don Quixote to the Moorish splendor of the Alhambra in Granada, the bull runs of Pamplona, and the contemporary silhouette of the new Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain’s many treasures have enticed countless travelers to cross its borders. But there exists a Spain that lies, as Federico García Lorca wrote, “beyond the great caravans of rowdy tourists fond of cabarets and grand hotels.” That soul, depicted by Spain’s literary greats, lies waiting to be discovered within the pages of Spain: A Traveler’s Literary Companion.
Explore Spain’s rich literary landscape with some of the country’s best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these thirty stories—many of which appear in English for the first time—transport the reader through Spain’s many enchanting regions: experience a bull-run with Juan Goytisolo in Albacete, join Bernardo Atxaga in a Basque village, travel to the misty woods of Galicia with Manuel Rivas, and reminisce nostalgically with Julio Llamazares over black-and-white photos of his childhood Spain.
Whereabouts Press is an independent publisher of books that convey a sense of a place—a country, a region, a city—through stories. Unlike guidebooks written by professional travel writers, Travelers Literary Companions feature stories written by literary writers—all of whom are native to the places they write about. They didn’t write specifically for travelers. They wrote because they had good stories to tell. And their stories tell us not just about people, but about the soul of a place.
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