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This travelogue really appealed to me. There was something about the way that the author, referring to himself in the third person as the traveller,, observed the countryside and the people in it in great detail, but without judgement. He wrote about a walking tour he took in 1946, only 6 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, in an area north-east of Madrid. He met all kinds of people along the way and shared his food, drink and tobacco with fellow travellers, tramps and beggars. He made
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Or travels through the Spanish Countryside is a travel book of Camilo José Cela. The author was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize of Literature. It is a sketchbook of the region of Alcarria. The author decides to go on a walk. He does ride a bus, some carts but generally walks. He gives us his impressions of the area as he wanders through the area. Cela is an urban intellect. As he travels he describes the people. There are blond and blue eyed people, dark haired dark eyed people. Most are friendly s
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This short book is a travelogue/memoir of a walking trip through the Alcarria region of Spain in the 1940s. It is interesting, but knowing little of the area or really of Spain in general, I couldn't really relate to it. The parts I found most interesting revolved around old buildings and current uses, and food. And the walking--I would love to take a trip like this, though Cela picked an area without many walkers. People were often trying to guess what he was doing there (traveling salesman?).
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