Spain category: 3192 books
Discover Empuriabrava
Girona (Catalonia, Spain)
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Empuriabrava
Empuriabrava (Ampuriabrava in Spanish) is one of the largest marinas in the world. It is located on the coast of Girona (Catalonia, Spain).
Empuriabrava was originally built on a swamp, and was transformed into a touristic community with original planning in 1964 and...
Cultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The watery terrain of the Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists,...
'Lector Ludens'
The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging...
Cycling the Camino de Santiago
The Way of St James - Camino Frances
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
The Camino de Santiago de Compostela (Camino Francés or Way of St James) is among the world's most famous pilgrimages: Christian pilgrims have travelled to the shrine of St James in Santiago, northern Spain, since the ninth century. This guide provides all the information you need to successfully...
A History of the Peninsular War, Volume VII: August 1813 to April 14, 1814
St Sebastian's Capture, Wellington's Invasion of France, Battles of Nive, Orthez, Toulouse [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 18 maps and illustrations
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources....
by John Pohl
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Most studies of medieval warfare in the late 14th and 15th centuries concentrate on the Hundred Years' War between England and France and the Wars of the Roses. But meanwhile, on the Iberian peninsula, the foundations of Spain's military 'Golden Age' were being laid as the kingdoms of Castile and...
At the First Table
Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food.
At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food...
Gone To Aragon
(On A One Way Trip)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Gone To Aragon takes the reader into and out of the sunlight in Spain via the author's easy-going account of taking risks and finding contentment in the wilds of Aragon. Ben Tideway pulled up stakes, burned bridges and fled from London to have a different life in a little pueblo in Aragon, NE Spain....
What You Need to Know Before You Travel to Barcelona
Barcelona Traveler’s Guide to Make the Most Out of Your Trip
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
As one of the most travel-friendly cities in Europe, ***Barcelona’s***locals see tourism as both a curse and a blessing, and we’ll take you through how to make the most of its true charms and move to the beat of the authentic Barcelona, without falling prey to tourist traps. Don’t make the mistake...
by James W. Cortada
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attaché Col. Stephen O. Fuqua of the U.S. Army, who had once held the rank of major general. His presence was highly unusual, for most military observers were less-experienced...
by Major-General Lord Andrew Thomas Blayney
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Major-General Lord Andrew Thomas Blayney although previously a successful commander of his own regiment the 89th Regiment of Foot of the British through-out the early stages of the Peninsular war, he is best known for his narrative of events after his capture by Polish forces fighting under the flag...
The Savage Frontier
The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A sweeping historical travelogue of the contentious border of France and Spain, in the great tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Jan Morris
With the Catalonia crisis making international headlines, the unique cultural and geographic region bordering Spain and France has once again moved to the center...
The Fatal Knot
The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the world's first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleon's defeat in the Peninsula War. Focusing on the army of Francisco Mina, Tone offers new insights into...
Disdain, Distrust and Dissolution
The Surge of Support for Independence in Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Support for independence in Catalonia has increased rapidly over the past decade. This dynamic is the result of Catalans in political, economic, and academic fields who no longer believe that the necessary reform of Spanish government is a viable option in terms of achieving an acceptable arrangement...