Spain category: 3192 books

A comedic and personal approach to Seville, full of tips, links, and bad jokes. Based on a true story.  -What to do, where to go  -Day trips, Southern Spain  -Day/Nightlife, restaurants  -Tips, events, links, and official sites 

Penelope Chetwode's middle-aged companion on her ride over the mule tracks and goat paths of Andalusia in 1961 was a twelve-year-old mare, La Marquesa. This treasured animal, borrowed from the Duke of Wellington's Spanish stables, brought her experience of native travel conditions to the expedition,...

In Granada, the Nazrids sought to create a paradise on earth and in the opulent splendor and beauty of the Alhambra, the wistful memory of that lost empire endures. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984, the Alhambra draws two million visitors a year, making it one of Spain's most popular...

In a small-format paperback, Shortcut Guides supply the single most essential facts about a popular destination, all at a remarkably-low price, and yet for a heavily-illustrated book with maps. And because they are written by top experts who know what the tourist needs, they can serve either as your...

Barcelona is one of the "hottest" destinations in travel today, a strong choice by an increasing number of tourists seeking novelty and advances in architecture, cuisine, art and more. This 184-page Day by Day Guide, profusely illustrated with four-color photographs and maps, suggests smart approaches...

A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day. The...

Edward Costello enlisted into his local militia regiment in Ireland in 1806, and transferred, not without having a few adventures in his native Ireland, to the 95th Rifles. Not quite well drilled enough to join in Sir John Moore’s 1808-1809 campaign, he narrates some stories of his comrades who...

An anthology of memoirs of the Peninsular War and the abortive attack on Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. This second volume includes two accounts from either end (chronologically) of Captain Cooke’s narrative on the initial campaign into Spain in 1809 under the Duke of Wellington, recounted by the Earl...

Despite the rather prosaic title, these two volumes contain some of the best eye-witness accounts of the Peninsular War. Maxwell wrote a number of books on the Napoleonic Wars himself, the research for which put him in contact with numerous ex-soldiers. In these two volumes, he assembled their accounts...

Donaldson “was born in Glasgow, where his father was employed by a mercantile house. With some school companions he ran away to sea and made a voyage to the West Indies, which disenchanted him of a sea life, and he returned home and was sent back to school by his father. Early in 1809 he again ran...

This is the most famous book by the author, a chronicle of the conquest of Granada, the last enclave of the Islamic world in Spain. It displays both sides of Fernando de Castilla, sometimes showing him as a cruel figure, and other times as a magnanimous forgiving leader.

Captain Gordon led a troop of the 15th Hussars during the first of the British army’s campaigns into Spain, commanded by Sir John Moore. Unearthed and published many years after it was written by the esteemed Regimental historian Colonel Wylly, his diary bears testimony to the events of the retreat...

For more than a decade, an intense gang war has been raging between British and foreign criminals in Spain's sunny costal regions. The warring factions have left more than a hundred people dead and scores injured, making headlines around the world. These vicious conflicts for control of drugs turf,...

El diario histórico de la rebelión y guerra de los pueblos guaranís is a chronicle of colonial conflicts between Spain and Portugal during the 18th century in the south Río Grande territory.