Spanish Recognitions: The Roads to the Present by Mary Lee Settle - 2005-08-11

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New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004. 1st Ed 1st Pr. Gift dedication in ink inside front cover. Paperback. 8vo. 104 Pgs.. Nr Fine. Spanish Recognitions: The Roads to the Present by Mary Lee Settle. Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, NY, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine. Gift dedication in ink inside front cover. 358 Pgs. ISBN 0393327175. LCCN 2003022814. At 82 years old, the author set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew. But, like Columbus on another voyage of discovery, she found something, many things, that she hadn't even known she was looking for. She follows the great, traumatic flows in Spanish history: the Moorish conquest from south to north, and the Christian ''reconquista'' several hundred years later in the opposite direction. Those epic struggles, shaped by geography, are the source of the fascinating tensions in the Spanish character, in its art, architecture, and literature, and the author's… Read More

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Paperback. New. "Settle takes us along as she digs into Spain's past....Consistently compelling."-Wayne Hoffman, Washington Post Book World

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 358 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches.