The New Spaniards
10 best books like The New Spaniards (John Hooper): McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland, The Places in Between, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation, Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War, Athelstan: The Making of England, Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
| Author | Pete McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0312311338 |
The #1 Irish Bestseller
Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother's homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling...
| Author | Rory Stewart |
| ISBN | 0156031566 |
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
| Author | Tom Holland |
| ISBN | 0385513119 |
In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| ISBN | 0140298517 |
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people.
Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction—they are Europe's...
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
| Author | Chris Stewart |
| ISBN | 0953522709 |
No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife, that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.
Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves,...
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
| Author | Charles Emmerson |
| ISBN | 1610392566 |
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features—last...
| Author | Tom Holland |
| ISBN | 0241187818 |
The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered...
| Author | Giles Tremlett |
| ISBN | 0802715745 |
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 Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and was imprisoned several times as a result of...
Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
| Author | Sam Savage |
| ISBN | 1566891817 |
Firmin is a rat born in a book (a shredded copy of Finneggans Wake), who finds the books he consumes also consume his soul. He becomes a vagabond and philosopher, struggling with mortality and meaning.
In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured...
| Author | David Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0375724508 |
A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia....
