A Traveller's Companion to Madrid Hugh Thomas

Name: A Traveller's Companion to Madrid By Hugh Thomas
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A Traveller's Companion to Madrid by Hugh Thomas

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SeriesA Traveller's Companion

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'Ideal for the cultured tourist . . . a vivid portrait.' Times Literary Supplement

A Traveller's Companion to Madrid Summary

A Traveller's Companion to Madrid: New edition by Hugh Thomas

The Earl of Clarendon describes 17th century bullfights; Salvador Dali plays a surrealist joke on a snooty barman at the Ritz; Rubens visits the Alcazar; Manet is at the Prado; generals and anarchists

meet in the Puerta del Sol. Hugh Thomas has chosen these and other vivid snapshots of Madrid's history from diaries, letters, memoirs and novels across five centuries to evoke the city's drama and life.

A Traveller's Companion to Madrid Reviews

All the essential spirit of Madrid -- sombre, aristocratic and tinged with violence. * Bloomsbury Book Guide *
Outstanding . . . a tour de force. * Geographical Journal *

About Hugh Thomas

Hugh Thomas was an English historian, writer and life peer in The House of Lords. Best known for The Spanish Civil War (1961), for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, Thomas wrote a number of political works and histories. By the end of his life, Thomas had been appointed Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and received the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic from Spain as well as the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle. Hugh Thomas was an English historian, writer and life peer in The House of Lords. Best known for The Spanish Civil War (1961), for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, Thomas wrote a number of political works and histories. By the end of his life, Thomas had been appointed Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and received the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic from Spain as well as the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.

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GOR002496385

ISBN 13

9781845291006

ISBN 10

184529100X

Title

A Traveller's Companion to Madrid: New edition by Hugh Thomas

Author

Hugh Thomas

Series

A Traveller's Companion

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Year published

2005-03-24

Number of pages

352

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