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1	Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe more books like this by Laurence Bergreen add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Rick Steves' Spain more books like this by Rick Steves add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
3	Lonely Planet Spain more books like this by Damien Simonis add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.77! \| SVS
4	Iberia more books like this by James A Michener add to wishlist James Michener, dedicated traveler as well as best-selling novelist, gives his impression of Spain based on his experiences there. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.45! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision more books like this by Henry Arthur Francis Kamen add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $14.45! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Rick Steves' Portugal more books like this by Rick Steves add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
7	The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World more books like this by Carlos Fuentes add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $12.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture more books like this by Jose Saramago, Amanda Hopkinson (Translator), Nick Caistor (Translator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Armada more books like this by Garrett Mattingly add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Homage to Catalonia more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist '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 ... see all copies from $3.15! new only from $3.15! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Provence & the Côte d'Azur more books like this by Roger Williams (Contributions by) add to wishlist "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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Small Death in Lisbon more books like this by Robert Wilson add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 more books like this by Bernard Cornwell add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Warsaw Requiem more books like this by Bodie Thoene, Ph.D. add to wishlist Lori Ibsen and Jacob Kalner flee to Danzig to evade Hitler's bombers while Peter Wallich seeks refuge with the Jews of Warsaw. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Arm of the Starfish more books like this by Madeleine L'Engle add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $119.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Basque History of the World more books like this by Mark Kurlansky add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.02! new only from $12.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Night Train to Lisbon more books like this by Pascal Mercier, Ms. Barbara Harshav (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.54! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Barcelona & Catalonia more books like this by Roger Williams (Contributions by) add to wishlist Now celebrating their tenth anniversary, these Eyewitness Travel Guides provide information on all the sights, from festivals to monasteries, beaches to cafe walks, castles to wineries. Maps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| SVS
19 view cover	The book of disquiet more books like this by Fernando Pessoa add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $5.36! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Spain: The Root and the Flower an Interpretation of Spain and the Spanish People more books like this by John A Crow add to wishlist This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and pertinent as when he first wrote it. Crow devoted a lifetime to Hispanic studies and here provides a historical interpretation of Spanish civilization from its earliest beginnings to the present. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Hidden Pope: The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship That is Changing the Relationship Between Catholics and Jews: The Personal Journey of John Paul II and Jerzy Kluger more books like this by Darcy O'Brien add to wishlist The recollections of Jerzy Kluger, a childhood friend of Pope John Paul II. A Jew who lost most of his family in the Nazi death camps, Kluger worked behind the scenes with the pope to help secure Vatican recognition of the state of Israel. Winner of a 1997 Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Tales of the Alhambra more books like this by Washington Irving add to wishlist 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. . . see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.54! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The New Spaniards more books like this by John Hooper add to wishlist This is a fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain. The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side. Focusing on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.68!
24 view cover	Spain more books like this by DK Publishing (Creator) add to wishlist Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.24! \| SVS
25 view cover	Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors more books like this by James Reston, Jr. add to wishlist This volume chronicles one of the most savage epochs in human history, the years of the Spanish Inquisition. Reston's engrossing narrative brings all of the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition into a terrifyingly brutal focus, and he looks beyond the dark deeds of 1492 as well, capturing the excitement of exploration and the promise of the future ... see all copies from $2.05! new only from $8.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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