Spain category: 3192 books
The Wayward Pilgrim
A Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela in Northern Spain Is Stitched Together with Adventures, Side-Trips, and Visits to Sites Unknown to the Medieval Pilgrim.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Wayward Pilgrim is an account of the desultory pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain made by a professor of Spanish on Sabbatical leave from the Salisbury University in Maryland. The professor undertakes the pilgrimage not as a religious experience but as an attempt to better understand...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Andalusia (Spain) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Kelly Lipscomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
In this guide, a resident of the country delves into every province and town of Southern Spain. He tells of the history and culture, and provides innumerable useful traveling tips. Everything is explored - the cities, the parks, the islands, the mountains, the foods. The book focuses on the southern...
Endgame for ETA
Elusive Peace in the Basque Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied explanation. Others, mainly Basques (but only some Basques) understood ETA...
by James Carrick Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Sir John Moore died at the height of his glory, having just defeated Marshal Soult’s French forces at the Battle of Corunna in 1809 during the Peninsular War. On his lips as he died he hoped that the British Public would remember him and that they would be proud that he had done his duty.
However,...
by James Carrick Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Sir John Moore died at the height of his glory, having just defeated Marshal Soult’s French forces at the Battle of Corunna in 1809 during the Peninsular War. On his lips as he died he hoped that the British Public would remember him and that they would be proud that he had done his duty.
However,...
Toledo Cathedral
Building Histories in Medieval Castile
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth...
Crusade of the Left
The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists. Yet a large number...
by Jason Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The Spanish Costa de la Luz (Coast of Light) is the 200 km westernmost stretch of the Andalusian coast that faces the Atlantic and runs south to the border with Portugal. This vacation spot is one of the best-kept secrets in Spain. The sunshine drenched coast has a rich history and a laid back lifestyle...
WE, THE ANARCHISTS
A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group...
Oranges
A Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
A delightful contemporary novel with a hint of romance, built on a dream. Young Charlotte, fascinated by the orange that she holds in her hand on a cold and damp British winter’s day, falls asleep where her dreams transport her to the future; to sunshine lands in Spain and Portugal where oranges...
Talavera 1809
Wellington’s lightning strike into Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley's first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington. Although Wellesely's forces were outnumbered, and a sizeable contingent of the Spanish...
One Man's War in Spain
Trickery, Treachery and Thievery
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The collected memoirs and documents in this book, penned or preserved by the author with such belief and ideological conviction over so very many years of effort, can be described as a masterwork. Without euphemism or any other sort of circumlocution, they bluntly set out facts that will come as a...
by Sam Willis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.
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Why did the Spanish launch their Armada on England?
How did Francis Drake counter the Spanish threat?
And why were so many ships lost at sea?
In 1585 Spain was the most POWERFUL Empire in the known world.
As...