Sent by the British and Foreign Bible Society to sell Spanish Scriptures in a country torn by the Carlist war, Borrow rode across Portugal, Castile, Andalusia and Galicia. He met gypsies, smugglers, priests, innkeepers and officials, landed in a Madrid prison, and recorded it all with a linguist’s ear for speech and a storyteller’s love of the strange.
One of the great English travel books, prized as much for its characters as for its landscapes. Download the free EPUB.