This is the new edition of the successful Spanish Pyrenees & steppes of Huesca
- Spain. It covers the central part of the Pyrenees,
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At eighty-two years old, Mary Lee Settle set off alone to find the Spain she thought she knew. But, like Columbus on another voyage of discovery, she found something-many things-that she hadn`t known she was looking for. Winner of a National Book Award for fiction & author of an acclaimed book of travel & history on Turkey, Settle brings to her task the visual equivalent of perfect pitch. She follows the great, traumatic flows in Spanish history: the Moorish conquest from south to north, & the Christian reconquista several hundred years later in the opposite direction. Those epic struggles, shaped by geography, are the source of the fascinating tensions in the Spanish character, in its art, architecture, & literature, & the author`s magical prose puts these gifts in our hands. ...

Spanish Shortcut in a selection of language titles from Berlitz, to aid you before & during your travels. Berlitz have been producing language titles & promoting language learning for more than 125years. Catalogue selection comprising the following Berlitz series: Phrase books & Dictionaries, Phrase books & CDs, Shortcuts to ...

Being larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, & committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela. Over 500 miles of extreme weather & agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist`s couch. Ludicrous, heart-warming & improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn`t really want to. ...

This is an illustrated phrasebook in the slimline format that has proved so successful for the Eyewitness Travel Pocket guides & maps. It is the perfect survival guide for everyday situations, with all the essential phrases interspersed with illustrated word lists, making it easy to learn & remember key words. ...

The DK Spanish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary introduces the vocabulary of the modern world through themed chapters filled with full-colour photographs & artworks which display & label all elements of everyday life. With sections ranging from home & work to leisure & the environment, every item is clearly labelled in Spanish with the translation directly below. The Spanish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a colourful & stimulating learning resource ideal for all levels & ages. With more than 6, 000 terms annotated, the illustrations in the dictionary provide a quick & intuitive route to learning a language, defining the words visually so it is easier to remember them. Learning Spanish has never been easier! ...

It`s never too soon to start teaching boys & girls a second language, & this book presents pages filled with cheerful color pictures that help teach Spanish words to English-speaking children in early grades. It presents more than 350 illustrations of familiar objects, with nine pictures on each page. Every picture is labeled with its English word, followed by its Spanish equivalent. The translated word is followed in turn by a phonetic spelling in smaller type. Words are grouped according to themes, such as Sports, The Classroom, Fruit, Vegetables, Party Time, Weather, & many others. For example, the nine illustrations on the Sports page show pictures with bilingual labels for football, table tennis, skiing, fishing, gymnastics, athletics, cycling, swimming, & basketball. Here`s a fun way for younger English-speaking children to build a basic vocabulary in Spanish. ...

Younger boys & girls have fun learning basic vocabulary in a second language when they open this book. It presents puzzles that use 14 child-friendly themes as it teaches Spanish vocabulary to English-speaking children & English vocabulary to Spanish-speaking kids. The themes include ” On the Farm, The Supermarket, Numbers & Months, At the Seashore, In the Classroom, Colors of the Rainbow, In the Country, ” & seven more. Each theme is presented twice on facing pages. The right-hand page gives English-speaking kids the puzzle to solve in Spanish; & the left-hand page instructs Spanish-speaking kids to solve the puzzle in English. Boys & girls learn words in the new language by working out crossword puzzles, completing word searches, joining the dots, filling in blank spaces, & playing several other word games. They get help in the form of picture clues, & they`ll find answers to all puzzles plus complete bilingual word lists at the back of each book. All puzzle pages feature cheerful color illustrations. ...

The prompts inside this cheerful matchbox offer inspiring ideas for sharing & cultivating moments of joy, appreciating bright spots, & celebrating the everyday. Petite & sweet, this little box of happiness makes a great stocking stuffer, birthday gift, or thank-you for exceptional party hosts. ...

Sparkhill & Greet in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the eastern area of Birmingham around Sparkhill & Greet. Coverage stretches from Stoney Lane eastward to Knights Lane, & from Gough Road southward to Woodlands Road. The Warwick Road & Stratford Road run through the map, which also

Includes:: Showell Green. Features include Premier Works, tramways, Burbury Brick Works, fireworks factories, River Cole, Greet Brick Works, Showell Green House, St John's church, streets of terraced housing around Sparkhill, Greet Bridge, Tyseley Brick Works, Greetmill Hill Farm, schools etc. On the reverse are street directories for Avondale Road, Fulham Road, St John's Road, Showell Green Lane, Stratford Road, Warwick Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25

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