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Northern Spain: The Collected Traveler
Each edition of this unique series marries a collection of previously published essays with detailed practical information, creating a colorful and deeply absorbing pastiche of opinions and advice. Each book is a valuable resource—a compass of sorts—pointing vacationers, business travelers, and readers in many directions. Going abroad with a Collected Traveler edition is like being accompanied by a group of savvy and observant friends who are intimately familiar with your destination.
This Edition on Northern Spain
• Distinguished writers, such as Calvin Trillin, Penelope Casas, Tom Brokaw, Alistair Reid, Sally Schneider, Bruce Schoenfeld, Anya Von Bremzen, and Florence Fabricant, who share seductive insights into Northern Spain’s outstanding restaurants, unique landscape, and cultural treasures, including the Camino de Santiago; the Guggenheim Bilbao; the tapas bars and cafés of San Sebastián, a city where cuisine is taken
very seriously; the shrine of Covadonga, considered the birthplace of Spain; the wine-growing district of La Rioja; and the less-traveled routes through the mountains and
valleys of the Picos de Europa.
• Annotated bibliographies for each section with recommendations for related readings.
• An A–Z “informaciones prácticas” (practical information) section covering everything from accommodations, hiking, and museum tours to the significance of the horeo, Basque language and culture, local foods and drink, car rentals, airfares and airlines, travel insurance, and packing.
Whether it’s your first trip or your tenth, the Collected Traveler books are indispensable, and meant to be the first volumes you turn to when planning your journeys.
Also in the Collected Traveler Central Italy—Tuscany & Umbria, Paris, Provence, Morocco, Venice, and the forthcoming Southwestern France.
This Edition on Northern Spain
• Distinguished writers, such as Calvin Trillin, Penelope Casas, Tom Brokaw, Alistair Reid, Sally Schneider, Bruce Schoenfeld, Anya Von Bremzen, and Florence Fabricant, who share seductive insights into Northern Spain’s outstanding restaurants, unique landscape, and cultural treasures, including the Camino de Santiago; the Guggenheim Bilbao; the tapas bars and cafés of San Sebastián, a city where cuisine is taken
very seriously; the shrine of Covadonga, considered the birthplace of Spain; the wine-growing district of La Rioja; and the less-traveled routes through the mountains and
valleys of the Picos de Europa.
• Annotated bibliographies for each section with recommendations for related readings.
• An A–Z “informaciones prácticas” (practical information) section covering everything from accommodations, hiking, and museum tours to the significance of the horeo, Basque language and culture, local foods and drink, car rentals, airfares and airlines, travel insurance, and packing.
Whether it’s your first trip or your tenth, the Collected Traveler books are indispensable, and meant to be the first volumes you turn to when planning your journeys.
Also in the Collected Traveler Central Italy—Tuscany & Umbria, Paris, Provence, Morocco, Venice, and the forthcoming Southwestern France.
612 pages, Paperback
First published March 25, 2003
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February 1, 2015
This is a really fun book and I will definitely be interested in the series if only because the editor/author selects some really great articles that can transport you to Spain without actually going there. While it's certainly exceptional in that variety, I have to say that I was really frustrated with the lack of any maps at all or even photographs of some of the places described. For example, there isn't a SINGLE map of northern Spain... you know, the title of the book. Not to mention how many villages and cities are mentioned repeatedly that even I, experienced in geography as I am, have trouble recognizing some of them. Laguardia, for instance, is a tiny village in Alava. Of course, I hardly know where Alava is, never mind a village that few non-oenophiles have probably heard of (and probably more than a few oenophiles themselves!). That said, the articles are great, but don't pick up this book unless you're starving and have an atlas at hand as well.
A good introduction to travel writing.
A good introduction to travel writing.
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