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by Guy Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011

Guy Thatcher walked the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route, hoping to discover the reason for the compulsion that drove him there. What he found instead was the timeless land of northern Spain, beauty, silence, mountains and plains, rain and relentless sun, snow in May, heartbreaking...
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Each Step is the Journey

The Call of The Camino

by Patricia A. Klinck
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013

The origins of the Camino de Santiago cannot be found in books. Its story is woven from legends and myths told by the ancients over the centuries and retold by pilgrims. Those who answer its call are often in search of a greater good, a more powerful truth, a fuller understanding. But what is its true...
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The Northern Caminos

The Caminos Norte, Primitivo and Inglés

by Dave Whitson, Laura Perazzoli
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014

This guidebook is a comprehensive, pocket-sized guide to walking the pilgrimage routes through northern Spain to the sacred city of Santiago de Compostela. The Camino del Norte is an 817km five-week coastal route from the town of Irún, close to the French border. Its alternatives are the Camino Primitivo...
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by Robert Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries;...
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The Portuguese

A Portrait of a People

by Barry Hatton
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016

Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent’s south-west rim.In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led...
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by Antonio Téllez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014

Mario Rodríguez Losada, (Mario de Langullo (nom de guerre 'O Pinche'), was one of the many legendary guerrillas who, after the fall of the Republic, took to the mountains of Galicia in North-West Spain to carry on the armed struggle against the repressive forces of the Franco regime. Mario's...
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Baroque Seville

Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis

by Amanda Wunder
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its...
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by Stuart Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007

Jumping the UK rat race and moving to southern Spain.
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by Jack Sagel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Make the best out of your trip to Girona on the Costa Brava, Spain. This guide covers the best places to sleep, eat and party as well as what to see and do. Includes a walking tour of the Old Town.
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by Keith Mashiter
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012

Keith’s wife Gail is looking forward to travelling the world and staying in comfortable hotels when Keith takes early retirement from his high-pressure job. But he has a shock in store for her. He unexpectedly decides to buy a huge American Winnebago-type motorhome (RV), tow a car behind ‘so...
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by Kathryn Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011

Displaying her "real talent for conjuring far-flung times and places," Kathryn Harrison tells the mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In the spring of 1999, Kathryn Harrison set out to walk the centuries-old pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela....
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Conquerors

How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

by Roger Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match....
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The Lisbon Route

Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe

by Ronald Weber
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011

The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation....
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by Norman Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

A memoir of a remote Spanish fishing village just after WWII, a community on the brink of change, by “the finest travel writer of the last century” (The New Yorker). Seeking solace in the everyday after his World War II army service, travel writer Norman Lewis returns to his beloved Spain,...
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