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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Laurence Bergreen
A voyage into history, a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages, a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power, and more, this captivating tale rivals the most exciting thriller fiction.
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Rick Steves' Spain
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to see Barcelona, the Basque Region, Madrid, Segovia, Toledo, Salamanca, Andalucia, Sevilla, Arcos, Jerez, Granada, The Costa del Sol, Tarifa, Gibraltar, and Morocco? "With Rick Steves' Spain 2006", travelers can experience the best of everything Spain has to offer, including tapas-hopping and ...
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A Small Death in Lisbon
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Robert Wilson
Ze Coelho, a homicide detective in contemporary Lisbon, is investigating the death of Catarina Oliveira, a wealthy, dissipated teenager who has been raped and murdered. As Coelho's narrative unfolds, the author interweaves the story of Klaus Felsen, a reluctant SS operative who, in 1941, is dispatched to Lisbon to take charge of the Nazis' covert ...
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Iberia
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James A Michener
James Michener, dedicated traveler as well as best-selling novelist, gives his impression of Spain based on his experiences there.
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Rick Steves' Portugal
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to visit Lisbon, the Algarve, Salema, Evora, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos? With "Rick Steves' Portugal", travellers can experience the best of everything Portugal has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated coverage of both famous ...
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The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
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Carlos Fuentes
In this sweeping, vividly written, and profusely illustrated work, Fuentes surveys the vast, complex 500-year history of the Spanish in the Americas and sees both the richness of the culture that has evolved and the troubling vestiges of colonialism.
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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in "Homage to Catalonia". Here he brings to bear all the force of his ...
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Armada
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Garrett Mattingly
Pulitzer prize-winning historian Garrett Mattingly's bestselling classic is now, on the 400th anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, available in a new deluxe hardcover edition. Three 8-page photo inserts.
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Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America
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Paul Schneider
The journey of the Narvaez expedition is one of the greatest survival epics in the history of American exploration. By combining the accounts of the explorers with the most recent findings of archaeologists and academic historians, this work offers an authentic narrative to replace a legend of North American exploration.
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Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809
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Bernard Cornwell
Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809. In the bitter winter of 1809 the French are winning the war in Spain and Britain's forces are retreating towards Corunna, with Napoleon's victorious armies in pursuit. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of Riflemen are cut off from the British army and surrounded by enemy ...
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The Ghost of Hannah Mendes
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Naomi Ragen
A wise and deeply moving new novel by the bestselling author of "Jephte's Daughter". An elderly Manhattan matron with only a short time to live--who despairs at the thought of her only legacy being her apathetic granddaughters--is visited by a ghost who offers her a partnership.
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Arm of the Starfish
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Madeleine L'Engle
Adam Eddigton, a brilliant student of marine biology, is thrilled when he is selected to be the summer assistant to Dr. O'Keefe. As he travels to Dr. O'Keefe's laboratory, which is on a small island off the coast of Portugal, he meets the attractive Caroline Cuttter. She gives Adam a mysterious warning about a passenger he will meet on his next ...
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The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision
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Henry Arthur Francis Kamen
First written in 1965 and subsequently revised, this book reexamines historians' conceptions and misconceptions of the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition, which was set up to try religious heretics--namely Jews and Muslims--took place in Medieval Spain up until the early 19th century. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Warsaw Requiem
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Bodie Thoene, Ph.D.
Lori Ibsen and Jacob Kalner flee to Danzig to evade Hitler's bombers while Peter Wallich seeks refuge with the Jews of Warsaw.
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Spain
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Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know.
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The book of disquiet
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Fernando Pessoa
When Fernando Pessoa died in 1935 he left behind a trunk containing over 25,000 items a vast collection of poems, fragments, letters, journals. These pieces were ascribed to a variety of writers - the heteronyms or assumed identities Pessoa had created over the course of his extravagant written life. Attributed to the heteronym Bernado Soares, THE ...
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Spain: A History
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Raymond Carr (Editor)
From Roman times to the present day, Spain has occupied a significant role in the evolution of our Western world. This book highlights the notable trends, intellectual and social, of each particular era in its history. The imposition of Roman rule created the notion of Hispania as a single entity. Chapters on the Visigoth monarchy, Moorish Spain, ...
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Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
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Jose Saramago, Amanda Hopkinson (Translator), Nick Caistor (Translator)
Nobel Prize-winning writer José Saramago writes about his native Portugal as someone who loves it deeply and knows it intimately. Dipping into myth and history, he relates the country's past to its present--and speculates about its future--in an illuminating narrative that transcends the travel genre.
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Night Train to Lisbon
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Pascal Mercier, Ms. Barbara Harshav (Translator)
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe's biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling ...
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The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain
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B Netanyahu
A new interpretation of the Spanish Inquisition and the origins of modern anti-Semitism that illuminates the tragic history of the Jews and their Christianized descendants in Spain.
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Lonely Planet Spain
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Damien Simonis
This title presents off the beaten track locations and doors into local culture including expanded coverage of Northern Spain. It includes themed colour highlights to cater to readers' interests and introduce them to new areas of Spain. All authors are Spain-based and experts in their respective areas of hiking, surfing and more. This work ...
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Provence & the Côte d'Azur
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Roger Williams (Contributions by)
"Eyewitness Travel Guides" are designed to be used when planning a trip, as a guide on holiday, and a souvenir on returning home. Revised annually, they provide opening times, telephone numbers, prices, and hotel and restaurant recommendations. "New York" won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for the Guide Book category.
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Basque History of the World
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Mark Kurlansky
This history of the world of the Basques is a cornucopia of interesting information on the people who have lived for centuries in several isolated provinces in the Pyrenees regions of France and Spain. It is also a survey of the role they have played in European history. Kurlansky is also the author of the popular COD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT ...
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Tales of the Alhambra
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Washington Irving
The mood is bewitchingly enhanced by Spanish guitar music and beautiful packaging. Tales of the Alhambra is a delightful offering for the romantic on anyone's holiday list. Perhaps the most romantic travel book ever written. . .
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Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
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Tim Moore
The author of "Frost on My Moustache" and "French Revolutions" hits the road again in a hilarious and touching modern-day pilgrimage, complete with donkey. Line drawings.
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