Madrid
A Traveller's Reader
$32.02
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2018
Summary
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller’s Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world had seen since the fall of Rome, the Spanish Empire, is brought to life in vivid diaries, letters, memoirs and histories.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408710326 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408710323 |
| Author: | Hugh Thomas |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 347g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Traveller's Reader |
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Ideal for the cultured tourist … a vivid portrait
All the essential spirit of Madrid - sombre, aristocratic and tinged with violence. - Bloomsbury Book Guide
Outstanding … a tour de force. - Geographical JournalIdeal for the cultured tourist … a vivid portrait - Times Literary SupplementA fascinating companion - TabletAbout The Author
Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas was an English historian, writer and life peer in The House of Lords. Best known for The Spanish Civil War (1961), for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, Thomas wrote a number of political works and histories. By the end of his life, Thomas had been appointed Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and received the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic from Spain as well as the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.
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