Spain : An Amazingly Short History

by Bob Fowke

Ships from Spain. Please allow 10-18 business days to arrive at UK address (10-21 worldwide) due to postal service checks and customs. A great delve into Spanish history. There is a whole cast of charactes including Isabella 11 who danced "like a hippopotamus", Philip V who spent weeks in a bed without changing his clothes and Don Juan de Manara "the greatest sinner who ever lived".

130 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

Bob Fowke is a prolific writer with over sixty books to his name or written in collaboration with other writers. Most of his books have been published by major British publishers, mainly Hodder Headline but also Oxford University Press, Collins and Heinemann. The majority of them are history and science books for children but he is also the author of The Real Ancient Mariner, about the 18th-century British sailor who shot an albatross in 1719, thus inspiring the focal point of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.

Reviews

[Pixel Drip · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's an easy and fun read. As a Spaniard, I'm embarrassed to have not already known these things.