Roads To Santiago - Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain

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 love affair with his adopted second country. He presents a world not visible to the casual tourist, by invoking the great spirits of Spain's past-El Cid, Cervantes, Alfonso the Chaste and Alfonso the Wise, the ill-fated Hapsburgs, and Velázquez. Be it a discussion of his trip to the magnificent Prado Museum or his visit to the shrine of the Black Madonna of Guadalupe, Nooteboom writes with the depth and intelligence of an historian, the bravado of an adventurer, and the passion of a poet. Reminiscent of Robert Hughes's Barcelona, Roads to Santiago is the consummate portrait of Spain for all readers.

About the author

CEES NOOTEBOOM was born in 1933 in The Hague. He has published nine novels and over a dozen collections of travel writing, including Roads to Santiago. He lives in Amsterdam and Spain.

Product details

• Authors: Cees Nooteboom
• Assisted by: Ina Rilke (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins (US)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2000
• EAN: 9780156011587
• ISBN: 978-0-15-601158-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Portugal, Eastern Europe, European History, Spain, Memoirs, Travel writing, Western Europe, General and world history, Travel and holiday, Biography: historical, political and military, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Historical Geography, HISTORY: WORLD, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, TRAVEL: Europe / Western, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY: Medieval, HISTORY: Europe / Western, HISTORY: Historical Geography, TRAVEL: Europe / Spain & Portugal, HISTORY: Europe / Spain & Portugal, TRAVEL: Europe / Eastern, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs, ART: European / General