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In the spring of 1927, V.S. Pritchett set out to walk 300 miles across Spain. At that time the country was almost completely isolated: many of the people he met had never seen a foreigner before. Yet despite their poverty, they received their odd English visitor, in his outlandish tweeds, was unfailing courtesy, hospitality and curiosity. Marching Spain is a vivid portrait of a timeless Spain, about to be torn apart by civil war, and a delightful record of personal discovery.V.S. Pritchett was born in Suffolk in 1900. Acclaimed as a master of the short story, he is also a noted critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer. Marching Spain is his first book.
In the spring of 1927, V.S. Pritchett set out to walk 300 miles across Spain. At that time the country was almost completely isolated: many of the people he met had never seen a foreigner before. Yet despite their poverty, they received their odd English visitor, in his outlandish tweeds, was unfailing courtesy, hospitality and curiosity. Marching Spain is a vivid portrait of a timeless Spain, about to be torn apart by civil war, and a delightful record of personal discovery.V.S. Pritchett was born in Suffolk in 1900. Acclaimed as a master of the short story, he is also a noted critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer. Marching Spain is his first book.
V.S. Pritchett
Victor Sawdon Pritchett was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the first of four children of Walter Sawdon Pritchett and Beatrice Helena (née Martin). His father, a London businessman in financial...
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