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South from Granada: A Sojourn in Southern Spain

10 best books like South from Granada: A Sojourn in Southern Spain (Gerald Brenan): A Visit to Don Otavio, The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku, Original Letters from India, D.H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy/Sea and Sardinia/Etruscan Places, Barcelona, The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island, Naples Declared, The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country

A Visit to Don Otavio
AuthorSybille Bedford
Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she set out...
The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
AuthorKobayashi Issa
ISBN1570621446
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the...
Original Letters from India
AuthorEliza Fay
ISBN1590173368
Eliza Fay’s origins are obscure; she was not beautiful, rich, or outlandishly accomplished. Yet the letters she wrote from her 1779 voyage across the globe captivated E. M. Forster, who arranged for their British publication in 1925. The letters have been delighting readers ever since with their...
D.H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy/Sea and Sardinia/Etruscan Places
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0141180307
Ovo sam (naravno) pročitao pre 18-dnevnog putovanja po Italiji. I nisam imao pojma ko je DH Lorens pre toga (napisao je Lady Chatterley's Lover, ne baš najbolja preporuka).

Početak, koji govori o njegovim nedeljama u okolini jezera Garda, je poprilično dosadan. Morao sam da ga preletim,...
Barcelona
AuthorRobert Hughes
ISBN0679743839
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal...
The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556590954
Astonishing poetry collection. One of the few poets that I read cover to cover and then again few more times, untill I know each poem by heart.

Looking Forward to Age

I will walk down to a marina
on a hot day and not go out to sea.

I will go to bed and get up early,
and carry...
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World
AuthorShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
ISBN0143107488
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30 volumes--here abridged to one volume, and translated...
The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN1899863249
There was a toast among the clans when they banqueted. A clansman would rise, lift a cup, and say, "To the land of the bens and the glens!" And up from the food the faces would move, and every man would roar out, "To the land of the bens and the glens!"

Och, a toast to start.

Our current President...
Naples Declared
AuthorBenjamin Taylor
ISBN0399159177
It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover,...
The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
AuthorJan Morris
ISBN0195042212
This passionate evocation of Wales by the author Rebecca West has hailed as "perhaps the best descriptive writer of our times" encapsulates that country in all its aspects, past, present, and even future. Jan Morris shows clearly the manners of thought of the Welch people, as well as their art, their...
Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
AuthorSteven Nightingale
ISBN1619024608
Granada is one of the iconic cities of the world. It stands for the culture of Al-Andalus, composed of Moslems, Jews, and Christians, who lived together in the legendary convivencia of the Spanish Middle Ages. Al-Andalus gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only...
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
AuthorPatrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN1590173805
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree,...
Roads to Santiago
AuthorCees Nooteboom
ISBN0156011581
Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of Cees Nooteboom's thirty-five-year...
Andalus: Unlocking The Secrets Of Moorish Spain
AuthorJason Webster
ISBN0552771244
As Islam and the West prepare to clash once again, Jason Webster embarks on a quest to discover Spain's hidden Moorish legacy and lift the lid on a country once forged by both Muslims and Christians. He meets Zine, a young illegal immigrant from Morocco, a twenty-first century Moor, lured over with the...
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past
AuthorGiles Tremlett
ISBN0802715745
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”—the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored....
The New Spaniards
AuthorJohn Hooper
ISBN0141016094
A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary...
Voices of the Old Sea
AuthorNorman Lewis
ISBN0786716908
After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade's bar, and...
Two Towns in Provence
AuthorM.F.K. Fisher
ISBN0394716310
This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, "my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just as much of its reality is based on my own shadows, my inventions." A vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.

A...
Homage to Barcelona
AuthorColm Tóibín
ISBN0330373560
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life and extravagant nightclubs, restaurants and bars. It moves from the story of the city's founding, and huge expansion in the nineteenth century,...
Labels
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
ISBN0140095187
Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design. Evelyn Waugh chose the name Labels for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already 'fully labelled';...
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