Crónicas Ibéricas - Tras los pasos de George Borrow, vendedor de biblias en el siglo XIX

Iberian chronicles In the footsteps of George Borrow, agent for the Bible Society in 19th Century Spain

Author:

David Fernández de Castro [1]

Publisher:

Editorial Revista Altaïr S.L. [2]

Year of Publication:

2008

Pages:

296

ISBN:

978-84-936220-1-5

Genre:

Literature

AUTUMN

2009

Season:

AUTUMN 2009

170 years have passed since English Bible seller George Borrow crossed Spain on horseback. The scenery, characters and adventures from his first trip were fixed in his book The Bible in Spain, a classic that became a best seller when it was published in 1843. When he read it, David Fernández de Castro realized that in Spain, the differences, the debates mentioned there remained unresolved. To corroborate what is left of the country that Borrow knew, he decided to follow the English adventurer’s footsteps. The trip, with the invaluable help of several Borrowan friends, would take him from Santiago de Compostela to Cádiz.

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Company:

Editorial Revista Altaïr

Address:

Gran Via, 616, 08007. Barcelona

Contact:

Arabella Gonzalez

Phone:

(34) 93 342 71 71 / Fax: (34) 93 342 71 78

E-mail:

editorial@revistaaltair.com [3]

Website:

http://www.altair.es [4]

Additional information

Press reviews:

Newspapers

http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idn... [5]

http://paper.avui.cat/article/dialeg/152610/volia/retratar/espanya.html [6]

Blogs

http://www.protestantedigital.com/new/nowleernoticia.php?r=255&n=11548 [7]
... Writer David Fernández de Castro recovers the scenarios described in Borrow’s autobiography and visits them in the twenty-first century, a trip in which he finds the fruit of many Evangelical churches founded after the Englishman’s visit.

http://blogdepoder.blogspot.com/2008/11/crnicas-ibricas-rescata-la-figur... [8]

http://lagruadepiedra.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/cronicas-ibericas-david-f... [9]
... The description of the visit to the house of a Protestant pastor and the fears aroused by David and his partner’s anticipation is one of the laconic touches of humour which make the book so refreshing and encouraging among this travel genre inland our peninsula.