Translated by Gloria Garcia Lorca, the writer's niece, and Jane Duran, the family friend who became a celebrated poet, Gypsy Ballads is the most authentic version of Romancero Gitano imaginable. In their new translation Jane Duran and Gloria Garcia Lorca have been faithful to Lorca's work, searching out original meanings, avoiding overt interpretations, reproducing metaphors, so as to bring to an English-speaking reader the pure power of Lorca's poetry.
English author and music journalist Tony Bryant is about to release a new revised edition of his book, Flamenco and Englishman's passion. The book, which was first released in 2006, is to, again, be published by Flamenco Sapiens, the editorial section of the Museo del Baile Flamenco. The flamenco museum is owned by the renown flamenco dancer Cristina Hoyos, and is situated in the very heart of Seville.
A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andalucia has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilizations for more than ten thousand years.
Some years have passed since eminent biologist and anthropologist Clive Finlayson graced the book list with his striking ornithological studies in the classic best-seller Birds of Iberia. He now returns with an evocative, wonderfully illustrated, personal tribute to the Iberian Peninsula, embracing history, geography and ecology, which he modestly sums up as "the story of olives, tuna, cork forests, vultures, wolves and humans".
This information-packed new sister title to Santana's 2003 classic Finca is the result of sixteen years' owning and farming a small-holding in Andalucia. As authoress, Sandy Walker stresses, the book is about the land and the countryside of Spain, not about gardens or gardening, and is designed to work as a practical guide whilst also affording an insight into the nature of agricultural practice that has forged the character of the Mediterranean people.
Penelope Chetwode's sole companion on her ride over the disused mule tracks and goat paths in the wilds of Andalusia in 1961 was the twelve-year-old bay mare, La Marquesa. This treasured animal, borrowed from the Duke of Wellington's Spanish stables, is the ‘other' of the two middle-aged ladies of the title. La Marquesa brought her experience of native travel conditions to the expedition, which was first initiated by the author's fondness for the works ofsuch early British travellers to Spain as George Borrow and Richard Ford.
Renowned writer and researcher Paco Sevilla, aware of the great wealth of flamenco knowledge available but inaccessible because of language barriers, sets out to produce a readable history around the lives of great artists from the early years. Seeking Silverio is certainly that.
In Janet Mendel's exciting and visually striking new treatment of a familiar Spanish subject the reader is irresistibly drawn into the tapas experience. The author takes a tapas tour of Spain, informs the reader how to enjoy tapas in the tascas and tabernas and shows how to translate those great dishes to one's own kitchen.
This guide is both practical and entertaining and makes a wholly worthy companion to the author's recently published and very well received East of Malaga which also takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery. Behind the crowded coast a fascinating world of sweeping vistas, remote communities and majestic mountains unfolds. Comprehensive maps provide the key to penetrating this world.
If your idea of a holiday is sitting on the beach all day, think again. In Search of Andalucia will inspire you to explore further and appreciate the history behind Spain's most popular holiday destination.
