Why a Booktrail?
1960, 1070s: Jan Morris writes about the heart and soul of the country
Spain
What you need to know before your trail
Spain is a companion to the country: its people, its history – and its character.
“Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills – the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain’s pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a history that set its seal upon half the world”
Travel Guide
Spain through the ages
In this edition the author writes a new foreword as since the book was written the country has heavily changed beyond recognition
In November 1975 there died in Madrid General Francisco Franco, for thirty-five years the dictatorial Caudillo of Spain at the time of his death and the state which he ruled and represented.
Franco had come to power when his dogmatically right-wing, fiercely Catholic armies defeated the elected Socialist government in the terrible Spanish Civil War of 1936 – 1939, which had become in effect a war between the ideologies of Fascism and Communism. It was a precursor of still more dreadful international conflicts to come and resulted in the anachronistic isolation of Spain from the progress of contemporary Europe
This is the place that my book portrays”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Southern Seas
Author/Guide: Jan Morris Destination: Jan Morris Departure Time: 1960s, 1970s
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