Roads To Santiago Is Cees Nooteboom's Passionate And Beautifully Written Chronicle Of Spain - Its Architecture, Art, History, Landscapes, Villages, And People. Traveling From Side Road To Side Road, He Discovers A Profound And Mysterious Country Not Found In Standard Tourist Guides. Nooteboom Is Continually Seduced By An Unknown Name On A Signpost, By What Might Be Seen On The Next Hill Or Beyond A Distant Mountain. His Destination May Be Santiago De Compostela, But He. Lingers In Aragon, Passes Through Granada, Dines In Chinchon, And Strolls The Empty Halls Of The Prado. His Prose, Too, Takes Side Roads, Lovely Digressions, Sometimes Literary, Sometimes Political, By Turns Ironic, Erudite, Melancholy. I. Through Aragon To Soria -- Ii. A Journey Across Names And Ages -- Iii. A World Of Death And History -- Iv. A Land Of Hidden Treasures -- V. Not Yet In Santiago -- Vi. A Queen Does Not Laugh: Diego Velasquez In The Prado -- Vii. Whispers Of Gold And Brown And Grey -- Viii. In The Footsteps Of Don Quixote -- The Roads Of La Mancha -- Ix. A Little History -- X. Kings And Dwarfs -- Xi. The Black Virgin In Her Golden Grotto -- Xii. A Moment In The Memory Of God -- Xiii. Winter Days In Navarre -- Xiv. Walter Muir Whitehill -- Xv. Perhaps The Dove Knows -- Xvi. Kings, Saints And Heretics -- Xvii. The Past Is Always There, And Yet It Isn't -- Xviii. A Riddle For Creon -- Xix. The Valley Of Silence -- Xx. I Have Pledged Myself To Spain -- Xxi. The Landscape Of Machado -- Xxii. From Lorca To Ubeda, Dreams Of An Afternoon -- Xxiii. Splendour In The Gardens Of Al-andalus -- Xxiv. On To The End Of Time -- Xxv. Arrival. Cees Nooteboom ; Translated From The Dutch By Ina Rilke. Includes Index.
Categories:
- Travel
- Travel Writing
Publisher : Harcourt
Author : Nooteboom, Cees
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :1997-05-01
Number Of Pages : 352
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0151001979
ISBN-13 : 9780151001972
Item weight : 1.35 lb
Dimensions : 1.4 in x 5.9 in x 9 in
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