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Andalucia

A Cultural History

John Gill author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Signal Books Ltd

Published:27th Aug '08

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A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andaluca has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilisations 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 Crdoba and Sevilla, guerrilla urban archaeologists in Torremolinos and Marbella, and underground lo-fi bands in Granada and Mlaga.

'A cultured and riveting read, with a simmering sense of adventure.' --Irish Times

ISBN: 9781904955443

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256 pages

New ed.