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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW Copy. A literary, historical guide to Spain with award wining journalist Jimmy Burns, of Anglo-Spanish heritag as our guide. Burns asks us to cosider this book as Cervantes did in his narrative of Don Quitote & Sancho Panza: ", . no mas que una" meeting of the grave & humorous, illusion & reality". Part personal travelogue &, part anthology. Rich in history, culture, politics, and people, drawing from observations of travellers, writers, soldiers, adventurers, saints & sinners from early times to the present. Covers battles from Wellington to the Spanish Civil War, religious persuasions (Christian, Jewish & Muslim), relevance flamenco & bullfighting, joys & pitfalls of indigenous foods and wines, and, effects of contemporary tourism on the Spanish World. Seller Inventory # 019360