Ghosts of Spain

Informationen zum Autor Giles Tremlett is the Guardian's Madrid correspondent. He has lived in, and written extensively about, Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford University twenty years ago. His first book was GHOSTS OF SPAIN: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past . Klappentext A new, revised and updated edition of "Guardian" journalist Giles Tremlett's journey through contemporary Spain, which examines the darker sides of its history. 'Tremlett writes with humour, modesty and a great affection for his subject' Miranda France, "Daily Telegraph" Ghost of Spain by Giles Tremlett, in a newly revised and updated edition of the Guardian journalist's journey through contemporary Spain examining the darker sides of its history. Zusammenfassung Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer Giles Tremlett to embark on a journey around Spain and its history. Did the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dream of a return to Spain's Moorish past?

Product details

• Authors: Giles Tremlett
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780571279395
• ISBN: 978-0-571-27939-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Europe; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Spain, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Travel writing, Spain: Franco´s dictatorship (c 1940 to 1975)