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A book of discovery, in which the landscape of Spain, its history, and its people flow together, each explaining the other. At the age of eighty-two, Mary Lee Settle set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew from guidebooks, from friends, and even from her own earlier trip there. But, like Columbus on another voyage of discovery, she found something - many things - that she hadn't even known she was looking for. Winner of a National Book Award for fiction and author of an acclaimed book of travel and history on Turkey, Settle brings to her task the visual equivalent of perfect pitch. She has no interest in tourist destinations; instead she follows, slowly and with no itinerary, the great, traumatic flows in Spanish history: the Moorish conquest from south to north, and the Christian 'reconquista', several hundred years later in the opposite direction. Those epic struggles, shaped by geography, are the source of the fascinating tensions in the Spanish character, in its art, architecture, and literature, and the author's magical prose puts these gifts in our hands. With a map and 12 pages of illustrations.
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"As the road [Settle] travels leads to our own nation, she circumvents stereotypes for extraordinary discoveries, as all great writers do."
About the Author
Mary Lee Settle is the author of many novels, including The Beulah Quintet and Blood Ties, for which she received a National Book Award. She lives in Kinsale, Virginia.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0393020274
- ISBN 13 9780393020274
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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