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Death’s Other Kingdom

Death’s Other Kingdom

Author(s): Gamel Woolsey

Location(s): Spain

Genre(s): Travelogue

Era(s): 1930s

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A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War – A rare humanist and female voice on a war which has otherwise been colonised by political commentary and male voices. A balance to the cruelty of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia – Woolsey, a poet, was married to Gerald Brenan, one of the Bloomsbury set who with the publication of South from Grenada became the English authority on Spain – New afterword by Michael Jacobs, author of The Factory of Light and the current authority on Andalucia – Perfect backlist tie-in to the current wave of highly popular Spanish travel writing

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Such clarity on this difficult period of Spanish history – Deeds –

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