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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Gatherings From Spain. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Richard Ford, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Gatherings From Spain in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Gatherings From Spain: Look inside the book: Nature has provided commensurate outlets for the infinite productions of a country which is rich alike in everything that is to be found either on the face or in the bowels of the earth; for the mines and quarries abound with precious metals and marbles, from gold to iron, from the agate to coal, while a fertile soil and every possible variety of climate admit of unlimited cultivation of the natural productions of the temperate or tropical zones: thus in the province of Granada the sugar-cane and cotton-tree luxuriate at the base of ranges which are covered with eternal snow: a wide range is thus afforded to the botanist, who may ascend by zones, through every variety of vegetable strata, from the hothouse plant growing wild, to the hardiest lichen. ...The Moorish geographer Alrasi was the first to take difference of climate as the rule of dividing the Peninsula into distinct portions; and modern authorities, carrying out this idea, have drawn an imaginary line, which runs north-east to south-west, thus separating the Peninsula into the northern, or the boreal and temperate, and the southern or the torrid, and subdividing these two into four zones: nor is this division altogether fanciful, for there is no caprice or mistake in tests derived from the vegetable world; manners may make man, but the sun alone modifies the plant: man may be fused down by social appliances into one uniform mass, but the rude elements are not to be civilized, nor can nature be made cosmopolitan, which heaven forfend. About Richard Ford, the Author: He was the eldest son of Benjamin Booths daughter and heiress, who married Sir Richard Ford, an MP in 1789 and for many years chief police magistrate of London. ...In the summer of 1851, Richard Ford married his third wife, Mary Ford, nee Molesworth, (1816-1910), who was a daughter of Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, 7th Baronet (1789-1823).… (plus d'informations)
thorold: Lady Betjeman may well have been one of the last British travellers to journey through Spain as Ford recommended, on horseback and with Don Quixote in your saddlebags. And Ford and George Borrow, of course.
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Classic handbook to Spain for British visitors, written in the mid-19th century when Victorian arrogance was at its height and Spain was at something of a political and economic low point. Ford clearly knows his stuff and has a real affection for Spain and its culture, but he can't resist peppering his text with sarcastic one-liners - in the spirit of Cervantes, of course - calculated to confirm the prejudices of his readers. These barbed comments, of course, are tremendous fun, and form the main reason for modern readers to take this book off the shelf. Given what he tells us about the Spanish propensity to avenge insults, he must have been fairly certain that no-one in Spain would get hold of the book.
Also very entertaining is his basic course in "how to swear like a muleteer" (which no doubt came in handy for the English ladies whom he identifies elsewhere as his main target audience). And there's some pretty detailed advice on how to prepare various Spanish dishes (and where to buy the ingredients in London), and a rather technical discussion of Sherry and other Spanish wines. He condemns British writers who are interested in nothing beyond the clichés of bandits, bullfights and castanets, but then goes on to give us detailed accounts of all three...
The book is a compilation of material mostly published previously in other forms: at least in the 1851 edition which is on Gutenberg, it shows some signs of clumsy editing, e.g. the chapter on Spanish bandits, in which he spends about ten pages telling us that bandits don't exist in Spain, then goes on to spend another ten pages listing the different varieties of bandits one may encounter and giving tips on how to react if you are held up by them.
Perhaps not the most useful guidebook for the 21st century reader, although his investment advice - "Don't even think about buying Spanish shares" - possibly still holds true. But still very entertaining, and interesting to read alongside Borrow or Cervantes. ( )
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Gatherings From Spain. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Richard Ford, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Gatherings From Spain in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Gatherings From Spain: Look inside the book: Nature has provided commensurate outlets for the infinite productions of a country which is rich alike in everything that is to be found either on the face or in the bowels of the earth; for the mines and quarries abound with precious metals and marbles, from gold to iron, from the agate to coal, while a fertile soil and every possible variety of climate admit of unlimited cultivation of the natural productions of the temperate or tropical zones: thus in the province of Granada the sugar-cane and cotton-tree luxuriate at the base of ranges which are covered with eternal snow: a wide range is thus afforded to the botanist, who may ascend by zones, through every variety of vegetable strata, from the hothouse plant growing wild, to the hardiest lichen. ...The Moorish geographer Alrasi was the first to take difference of climate as the rule of dividing the Peninsula into distinct portions; and modern authorities, carrying out this idea, have drawn an imaginary line, which runs north-east to south-west, thus separating the Peninsula into the northern, or the boreal and temperate, and the southern or the torrid, and subdividing these two into four zones: nor is this division altogether fanciful, for there is no caprice or mistake in tests derived from the vegetable world; manners may make man, but the sun alone modifies the plant: man may be fused down by social appliances into one uniform mass, but the rude elements are not to be civilized, nor can nature be made cosmopolitan, which heaven forfend. About Richard Ford, the Author: He was the eldest son of Benjamin Booths daughter and heiress, who married Sir Richard Ford, an MP in 1789 and for many years chief police magistrate of London. ...In the summer of 1851, Richard Ford married his third wife, Mary Ford, nee Molesworth, (1816-1910), who was a daughter of Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, 7th Baronet (1789-1823).
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Also very entertaining is his basic course in "how to swear like a muleteer" (which no doubt came in handy for the English ladies whom he identifies elsewhere as his main target audience). And there's some pretty detailed advice on how to prepare various Spanish dishes (and where to buy the ingredients in London), and a rather technical discussion of Sherry and other Spanish wines. He condemns British writers who are interested in nothing beyond the clichés of bandits, bullfights and castanets, but then goes on to give us detailed accounts of all three...
The book is a compilation of material mostly published previously in other forms: at least in the 1851 edition which is on Gutenberg, it shows some signs of clumsy editing, e.g. the chapter on Spanish bandits, in which he spends about ten pages telling us that bandits don't exist in Spain, then goes on to spend another ten pages listing the different varieties of bandits one may encounter and giving tips on how to react if you are held up by them.
Perhaps not the most useful guidebook for the 21st century reader, although his investment advice - "Don't even think about buying Spanish shares" - possibly still holds true. But still very entertaining, and interesting to read alongside Borrow or Cervantes. (