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The consummate portrait of Spain for all readers, “Roads to Santiago” is an evocative travelogue through the architecture, art, and landscapes of Spain past and present. A richly detailed chronicle of one writer’s thirty-five-year love affair with his adopted second country, this meditation on Spain offers a world not visible to the casual tourist. Nooteboom creates a reverie of the country that so possesses him by invoking the great spirits of Spain’s past—El Cid, Cervantes, the ill-fated Habsburgs, Velázquez, and Zurbarán. 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 a historian, the bravado of an adventurer, and the passion of a poet.
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A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an undiscovere...
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