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Lost Paradise - The Story of Granada (Paperback)
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Lost Paradise - The Story of Granada (Paperback)
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Price R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
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The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge
academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson
has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC
History Magazine 'A glittering homage to one of the world's most
beautiful and storied cities' Dan Jones 'Beauty built on blood and
brutality... A fascinating new tome' Daily Mail From the early
Middle Ages to the present, foreign travellers have been bewitched
by Granada's peerless beauty. The Andalusian city is also the stuff
of story and legend, with an unforgettable history to match.
Romans, then Visigoths, settled here, as did a community of Jews;
in the eleventh century a Berber chief made Granada his capital,
and from 1230 until 1492 the Nasrids - Spain's last Islamic dynasty
- ruled the emirate of Granada from their fortress-palace of the
Alhambra. After capturing the city to complete the Christian
Reconquista, the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella made the
Alhambra the site of their royal court. In Lost Paradise, Elizabeth
Drayson takes the reader on a voyage of discovery that uncovers the
many-layered past of Spain's most complex and fascinating city,
celebrating and exploring its evolving identity. Her account brings
to the fore the image of Granada as a lost paradise, revealing it
as a place of perpetual contradiction and linking it to the great
dilemma over Spain's true identity as a nation. This is the story
of a vanished Eden, of a place that questions and probes Spain's
deep obsession with forgetting, and with erasing historical and
cultural memory.
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