JAMES MICHENER IBERIA PDF
Iberia, by James A. Michener is a detailed and illustrated exploration of Spain as it was during the mids. The author takes a measured, literary view on. Michener contributes a gigantic guidebook and, via some pages in IBERIA . Spanish Travels And Reflections. by James A. Michener. Has anyone read James Michener’s Iberia before or after visiting Spain? I’m thinking about tackling it before a trip next May.
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Mar 13, Rick rated it really liked it Shelves: Who would not trade their life for his? Not the usual michner story. Michener has ever done on any subject. Thus a kind of arms-race ensues, with tourists trying to find out where the locals go and locals trying to find out where the tourists go. I offer them in the spirit of comradeship and not of spite. All travelers and lovers are convinced that their experiences are unique, and therefore worth writing about; while in reality most travel stories and love poems express nearly the same basic sentiment, over and over, with only minor variations.
About pages in and to go, I thought, well, this man is Catholic, given his deeply sympathetic descriptions of Spanish religious sentiments. Iberia By James A. Europe Travel Writing Category: Michener is awesomely experienced in art, history and global politics.
Michener was a huge fan of bull fights, and that I could have skipped entirely.
There are also a lot of personal anecdotes and adventures that help to decide where to go and to appreciate what you see. The author takes a measured, literary view on such subjects as the Moorish occupationIslamCatholicismFrancisco Franco and other controversial subjects.
I read this during a recent trip to Spain to get away from the craziness here. Lawrence in Italy Next library review: Be the first to discover new talent! Here are a few, with iberka from the book.
Aug 06, Arnold Baruch rated it really liked it. That Michener had such knowledge of Spain, and that this was only one of many places he had such knowledge, is hard to comprehend.
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Iberia by James A. He not only reveals The Best Books of The whole thing is silly. A Piece of the World. The travel book si Iberia is a massive tomb.
Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections – James Albert Michener – Google Books
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About this title Audio Format. Michener Limited preview – He gets private tours of every monument. It was an interesting experience in driving throug I enjoyed this book very much, even though I’m not normally a fan of this author.
You see, Michener was a successful novelist with plenty of time and disposable income on his hands. He was jqmes passionate aficionado of bullfights, even though the jmes majority of the bull fights he saw were profoundly disappointing.
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Jul 08, Eric Leeson rated it liked it. He writes of the differences that have occurred in Madrid between his most recent trip, and his previous Madrid visit in Get to Know Us. Italy to the east; the Low Countries to the north; her vast empire in the Americas to the west; and involvements to the south in Africa; yet it could not make up its mind where its real interests lay, and thus “frittered them all away.
It was written in the 60’s and so much has changed, but the roots remain the same. Spanish Travels and Reflections.