English author and music journalist Tony Bryant is about to release a new revised edition of his book, Flamenco; an Englishman's passion. The book, which was first released in 2006, is to, again, be published by Flamenco Sapiens, the editorial section of the Museo del Baile Flamenco. The flamenco museum is owned by the renown flamenco dancer Cristina Hoyos, and is situated in the very heart of Seville.
A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andalucía has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilizations for more than ten thousand years.
Some years have passed since eminent biologist and anthropologist Clive Finlayson graced the book list with his striking ornithological studies in the classic best-seller Birds of Iberia. He now returns with an evocative, wonderfully illustrated, personal tribute to the Iberian Peninsula, embracing history, geography and ecology, which he modestly sums up as "the story of olives, tuna, cork forests, vultures, wolves and humans".
This information-packed new sister title to Santana's 2003 classic Finca is the result of sixteen years' owning and farming a small-holding in Andalucía. As authoress, Sandy Walker stresses, the book is about the land and the countryside of Spain, not about gardens or gardening, and is designed to work as a practical guide whilst also affording an insight into the nature of agricultural practice that has forged the character of the Mediterranean people.
Penelope Chetwode's sole companion on her ride over the disused mule tracks and goat paths in the wilds of Andalusia in 1961 was the twelve-year-old bay mare, La Marquesa. This treasured animal, borrowed from the Duke of Wellington's Spanish stables, is the ‘other' of the two middle-aged ladies of the title. La Marquesa brought her experience of native travel conditions to the expedition, which was first initiated by the author's fondness for the works ofsuch early British travellers to Spain as George Borrow and Richard Ford.
