"Massive, beautiful...Unquestionably some of the best writing
on Spain...The best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any
subject...Stunning...Memorable." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Here,
in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark,
is the real Spain as he experiences it. He not only reveals the
celebrated Spain of bullfights and warror kings, painters and
processions, cathedrals and olive orchards; he also shares the
intimate, often hidden Spain he has come to know, where toiling
peasants and their honest food, the salt of the shores and the
oranges of the inland fields, the congeniality of living souls and
the dark weight of history conspire to create a wild,
contradictory, passionately beautiful land, the mystery called
Iberia.
