Mostly Spain
Published on 19. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-615-16583-7 (ISBN)
Description
Travels in Spain and The Netherlands, with side trips to Paris and Torino. Comments (more often meditations) on restaurants, hotels, the landscape, the people, and their history; on paintings and music, museums and cathedrals; and politics; and language; and books...
240 pages; b&w photos.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Healdsburg
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
396 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-615-16583-7 (9780615165837)
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Person
The writer and composer Charles Shere was music director at KPFA-fm, announcer and producer at KQED-tv, and art and music critic at the Oakland Tribune. He has been associated with the restaurant Chez Panisse since its founding, and has published books on the composer Robert Erickson, on Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp, and a number of books of travel essays. A fifth-generation Californian, he considers himself a modernist and a regionalist, with a strong interest in Place.