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by: Samuel Eliot Morison
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, a handsome new paperback edition of Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the greatest sailor of them all. 50 drawings, maps and charts; 4 fold-outs.
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Miguel de Cervantes
The best-known book in Spanish literature, telling the story of the adventurous knight-errant and his squire Sancho Panzo, who set out to right the wrongs of the world.
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by: Robert Hughes
From the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore comes a monumentally informed and irresistibly readable work of history, art criticism, and urban anthropology devoted to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. 180 photos.
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by Jean Canavaggio
Renowned Cervantes scholar Canavaggio (U. of Caen, France) won the Prix Goncourt for biography in 1987 with the original French edition of this speculative inquiry into the life of the great Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.
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by: Dawn Ades
Spanish-born Salvador Dali is one of the most famous and studied twentieth-century artists. What accounts for this popularity? Is it his excellence as an artist? The accessibility of his imagery? Or his genius as a self-publicist? In a searching text, completely revised and updated in this edition to incorporate new information that has come to light since Dali's death in 1989, Dawn Ades considers some of the puzzling questions raised by the Dali phenomenon. His early years, the development of his technique and style, his relationship with the Surrealists, his exploitation of Freudian ideas, and the image which Dali created of himself as the mad genius artist are all explored in this brilliant and thought provoking study.
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by Geraldine McCaughrean
A handsome retelling of the legend of El Cid, the great Spanish hero of the eleventh century. Told in vigorous, dynamic prose and decorated with Ambrus's splendid horses, beautiful women, and stirring battle scenes, the book brings to life this legendary hero.
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by: Ian Gibson
This monumental biography goes to the heart of his explosive genius. When, at the age of 38, Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by anti-republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War, he was already one of the world's most celebrated poets and playwrights.
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by Federico Garcia Lorca
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by: James Michener
Michener's personal observations and vivid recollections enhance an informal portrait of Spanish life and culture.
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by Carolyn Lanchner
Published to accompany a centennial exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from October 1993 through early January 1994, this intensively researched volume contains more than 250 full-color reproductions that explore the entire range of the Spanish artist's career.
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by: Daphne Lockyer
The story of the popular Spanish singer's rise to stardom and coincident struggles.
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by: Charles Hudson
Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration nearly 4,000 miles across what would become the southeastern part of America. Until now, his path has been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. Using a new route reconstruction, Hudson offers a new theory of this expedition, placing it on a map and, in many instances, tying it to specific archaeological sites.
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by: Federico Garcia Lorca
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by: Federico Garcia Lorca
A collection of ballads represents the author's best-known works and conveys the richness of his native Andalusia and Spain's gypsy heartland, in a treasury that also celebrates the human senses.
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by: Carlos Fuentes
A sweeping history of Hispanic culture on both sides of the Atlantic, set in the context of Spain's own multicultural roots. "The freshest and most inspiring . . . history in this year of a thousand Columbian offerings. . . ."--Washington Post. 175 paintings, drawings, and photos.
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by: Stephen Marlowe
The narrator of this novel is no less than Miguel de Cervantes, creator of Don Quixote. Marlowe mixes the facts of the life of Cervantes with adventures resembling those of the knight of La Mancha. Through illusion and reality, he paints a passionate portrait of medieval Europe and North Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries when Islam, Judaism, and Christianity coexisted in fertile and chaotic, sometimes savage tension.
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by: Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's first bestselling novel, set in the cafés of Paris and bullrings of Spain, is a brilliant depiction of the Lost Generation that established him as one of the great prose stylists of all time. This hardcover reprint is a Scribner Classic, commemorating 150 years of publishing excellence.
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