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The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
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Paulo Coelho, Alan R Clarke (Translator)
A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. Reissue.
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Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coehlo's enchanting story of a boy who goes on a quest after a tantalizing dream will warm the heart of every type of seeker. Told in a simple, engaging style, this tale of an Andalusian shepherd begins as a search for a treasure which, according to his dream, lies hidden beneath the Egyptian pyramids. As young Santiago pursues his goal, he ...
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El Alquimista: Una Fabula Para Seguir Tus Suenos
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Paulo Coelho, Juan G Costa (Translator), De Juan Godo Costa (Translator)
For the millions of Coelho's fans comes a beautiful, full-color illustrated edition of his international bestseller, featuring the art of Moebius. It is the story of a shepherd boy who yearns to travel and ends up risking everything to pursue his destiny--a charming fable about following one's dreams and reading life's omens.
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The Alchemist CD
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Paulo Coelho, Jeremy Irons (Read by)
At last -- the unabridged recording of this timeless bestseller that has sold millions. "To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation", This quotation taken from "The Alchemist" sums up the focus of the book. The journey that life should be, is lived by a simple shepherd who finds that life's gifts lie within us all. 3 CDs.
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Platero and I
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
"An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, truly incomparable." -- New Yorker This lyric portrait of life-- and the little donkey, Platero-- in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramo n Jime nez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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A rose for winter : travels in Andalusia
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Laurie Lee
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Platero y Yo
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
Platero and I, the most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ram?n Jim?nez (1881-1958), is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. The story is a simple one: it is a first person account of a poet and his donkey in the mountains of Spain, appreciating, almost Zen-like, the ...
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The Rise and Fall of Paradise
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Elmer Bendiner
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Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico Garcia Lorca
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C Brian Morris
Through exhaustive research and painstaking readings in a wide range of anthologies of Andalusian folk culture and collections of popular verse, author C. Brian Morris reveals how Lorca transformed and veiled real people and real places in his poetry and drama. Exploring subjects ranging from medieval ballads to flower and plant lore, he further ...
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Flamenco: Gypsy Dance and Music from Andalusia
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Claus Schreiner (Editor), Mollie C Peters (Translator)
Written by a group of flamenco enthusiasts, this book traces the history and development of flamenco, the folk dance created by the gypsies of the Andalusian region of Spain in the 19th century still popular today. It also serves as a guide to the performers and places that maintain the tradition.
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Rough Guide to Andalucia
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Geoff Garvey, Mark Ellingham
An amazingly detailed guide to Spain's most popular region, including both major sights (like the Alhambra) and less predictable adventures (like a trek through the Sierra Nevada) plus everything in between (sherry-tasting at Jerez, windsurfing at Tarifa).
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Lonely Planet Andalucia
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Susan Forsyth, Vesna Maric, John Noble
Offers information with sections on outdoor activities, architecture and food and drink. This book provides coverage of Andalucia's hot spots - Seville, Granada, Cordoba and the Costa del Sol. It features theme-based itineraries like tapas, sherry, flamenco and architecture.
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A way of life
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D. E. Pohren
This classic account of the flamenco way of life before it was corrupted by creeping commercialism is based on Donn Pohren's eight years running a flamenco centre at Moron in Andalusia, "the wildest years of my life which I barely survived". His experience of flamenco and its mainly Gypsy singers, dancers and guitarists provides a vivid picture of ...
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The Wind Cried: An American Discovery of the World of Flamenco
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Paul Hecht
This text on flamenco music contains over 100 examples of the flamenco copla.
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Bullfight
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Garry Marvin
Widely regarded as cruel and even barbaric by outsiders, the bullfight remains central to Spanish culture and continues to form an important element of the "romance" of Spain. But why is this seemingly bizarre and undoubtedly dangerous ritual confined to a small part of Europe and why do men risk their lives to perform with and kill wild bulls? In ...
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A Rose for Winter
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Lee
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the ...
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Andalusia, sketches and impressions
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W. Somerset Maugham
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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From Duty to Desire: Remaking Families in a Spanish Village
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Jane Fishburne Collier
In the 1980's, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a 'modern subjectivity' among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of ...
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Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
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Stanley H Brandes
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture. In this study of projective behavior as found in the folklore of an ...
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Andalusia
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Robin Totton
Crowood Travel Guides combine imaginative use of color and clear modern presentation with comprehensive, practical information. They are visually stimulating and accessible, with an emphasis on enjoying a country or city and experiencing its people and culture. Andalusia is the home of flamenco, flowers, the gypsy life, and the Costa del Sol. It ...
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Socialists of Rural Andalusia: Unacknowledged Revolutionaries of the Second Republic
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George Allen Collier
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White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture
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Allen Josephs
From the ancient Phoenicians through Maimonides to Pablo Picasso's retrospective exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1980, this study spans more than three thousand years of Spain's Andalusian civilization. Allen Josephs focuses on the cultural distinctions that have set Andalucia apart throughout recorded history: its Oriental origins, its ...
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Andalucia
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Mr. Michael Jacobs
In this masterly book, now in a revised and updated fourth edition, Michael Jacobs looks with fresh eyes at all the traditional delights of Andalucia while doing full justice to the lesser-known aspects of the region. He examines the underrated local food and drink, the extraordinarily varied natural scenery, the composers and writers who created ...
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Andalucia Handbook
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Rowland Mead
This is the first in a series of guides on Spain and Portugal, aiming to complete Footprint Handbook's Hispanic connection created by the "South American" handbook. The author of this guide has lived in Andalucia since 1980, and his intention is to convey his enthusiasm about the variety of the region to all travellers, whether they are ...
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Our Place in Al-Andalus': Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters
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Gil Anidjar
The year 1492 is only the last in a series of "ends" that inform the representation of mediaeval Spain in modern Jewish historical and literary discourses. These ends simultaneously mirror the traumas of history and shed light on the discursive process by which hermetic boundaries are set between periods, communities, and texts. This study ...
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