San Antonio College Library

In 1840, enfant terrible Thophile Gautier set off by coach for Spain, hired by a magazine to send back travelogue chapters. The end result was this vivid book, originally published in 1845. In it he recounts Spain's vast landscapes, architecture, bullfights, costumes, women, sensual Madrid and the cigar makers of Seville. Maps. Illustrations.

An account of the author's trip made over the routes of the three journeys taken by Don Quixote in the novel.

"In 1987, when Miranda France spent a year in Madrid as a student, the new freedoms of post-Franco Spain were intoxicating: divorce, regional languages, contraceptives, kissing in the street, even the public consumption of drugs had become legal. At the university where, in 1936, Republicans had fought Nationalists in hand-to-hand combat, girls with Snoopy folders now sat alongside men with well-washed hair and boat shoes. Yet Madrid was also a mecca...

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War, of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads finally broke the unwritten understanding among Spaniards that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. Madrid-based journalist and 20-year resident Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why its people have kept silent so long, and here unveils the tinderbox of disagreements...

Describes the Costa Brava, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made ends meet.