A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain,

Publisher Marketing: Title: A hand-book for travellers in Spain, Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Ford, Richard; Murray, John; 1845. 2 v. (xii, vi, 1064 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates): maps (1 fold. in pocket); 19 cm. 10163.aa.6. Contributor Bio:  Ford, Richard RICHARD FORD is the author of the Bascombe Trilogy, which includes The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day-- the first novel ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PeN/Faulkner Award-- and The Lay of the Land. He has also written several short story collections, including Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which was a bestseller in Canada. He lives in East Boothba, Maine, with his wife, Kristina Ford. Contributor Bio:  Murray, John John Murray trained as a doctor and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a teaching-writing fellow. "The Hill Station" won the Prairie Lights Short Fiction Award, and the title story was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for the Best New American Voices 2002 fiction anthology. John Murray currently lives in Iowa.