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Face of Spain

*The Face of Spain* is an account halfway between a scholarly travel book and a confessional diary, narrating the journey of Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey through central and southern Spain in 1949.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 268 pages

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