A Season in Spain
Publisher: Pavillion Books
Published: August 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781857933055
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Travel writing; 20th Century Description And Travel; Travel; Spain; Europe - Spain & Portugal
Genres: Travel
First sentence: For a season we lived in Spain. We went looking for a house and were beguiled by a tiny fruit farm near an Adalusian river. Beneath its ancient olive trees thrived acres of oranges, lemons, peaches, almonds, quinces and loquats. Fig trees shaded the house and vines dripped from its terraces. We found it in summer.
Description: This is the rocky world where to Moors settle when they were chased out of Granada five hundred years ago. They are very much in evidence, especially in the clusers of flat rofed houses that might be taken for villages in North Africa: and in the irrigation system that waters the terraces. Out oive grow was on the fertile river plane of the Guadalfeo, twenty miles from Granada as the eagle flies and twelve miles from the Mediterranian.