Iberia: Spanish Travels And Reflections Volume 1 & 2
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers have possessed the power to transport a reader so completely into the soul of a place as James A. Michener, and Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections stands as one of his most intimate and immersive achievements. In this sweeping portrait of Spain, Michener chronicles his decades-long love affair with the Iberian Peninsula — wandering through ancient cities like Toledo, Seville, and Pamplona, conversing with bullfighters, priests, peasants, and intellectuals, and immersing himself in a culture at once deeply traditional and quietly restless beneath the long shadow of Franco's Spain. More than a travel memoir, Iberia is a profound cultural meditation that uncovers the contradictions at the heart of Spanish identity — the passionate dualities of life and death, faith and doubt, pride and poverty. Michener's prose is richly detailed and warmly personal, weaving history, art, religion, and flamenco into a grand tapestry that illuminates what it means to be Spanish. Decades after its first publication, this landmark work endures as essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand a land where the past is never truly past — and where every dusty crossroad seems to whisper an unfinished story.
Author: James A. Michener
Format: Paperback
Published: 1971, Corgi Books
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers have possessed the power to transport a reader so completely into the soul of a place as James A. Michener, and Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections stands as one of his most intimate and immersive achievements. In this sweeping portrait of Spain, Michener chronicles his decades-long love affair with the Iberian Peninsula — wandering through ancient cities like Toledo, Seville, and Pamplona, conversing with bullfighters, priests, peasants, and intellectuals, and immersing himself in a culture at once deeply traditional and quietly restless beneath the long shadow of Franco's Spain. More than a travel memoir, Iberia is a profound cultural meditation that uncovers the contradictions at the heart of Spanish identity — the passionate dualities of life and death, faith and doubt, pride and poverty. Michener's prose is richly detailed and warmly personal, weaving history, art, religion, and flamenco into a grand tapestry that illuminates what it means to be Spanish. Decades after its first publication, this landmark work endures as essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand a land where the past is never truly past — and where every dusty crossroad seems to whisper an unfinished story.