Andalucia
A Cultural History
ISBN13: 9780195376104ISBN10: 0195376102
Hardback,
272 pages
Nov 2008,
In Stock
Price:
$35.00 (01)Description
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. This book traces its origins from the earliest hominid settlers in the Granada mountains 1.8 million years ago, through successive Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Muslim cultures, and the past five hundred years of modern Castilian rule, up to and including the present day of post-modern novelists in Cordoba and Sevilla, guerrilla urban archaeologists in Torremolinos and Marbella, and underground lo-fi bands in Granada and Malaga.About the Author(s)
John Gill is the author of The Thomas Cook Guide to Seville and The Andalucia and the Essential Gaudi.
