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Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia

 By Fanny Bullock Workman, William Hunter Workman

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By Fanny Bullock Workman
, William Hunter
Workman
Published 1897
G. P. Putnam's sons
242 pages
Original from Harvard University
Digitized May 24, 2005
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WOMEN OUTDOORS BIBLIOGRAPHY Rev. 6/06 by Jan Brown
Workman, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia, Putnam, 1897. They biked. 4500 kilometers through Spain in two months in 1895 ...
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T HE approach to Granada is guarded on every side by chains of sierras and one must be prepared to grapple with steep grades in passing these. ...
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Zaragoza - Page 228
I.. rode through Navarre and Aragon to Zaragoza. The route on the first day lay over the high tablelands separating Burgos from ...
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Malaga - Page 92
The route from Granada to Malaga is one of the most interesting as regards scenery in Spain and well repays for the effort it demands. ...
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Seville - Page 149
A GOOD road runs from Seville some two hundred kilometres through a spars'ely inhabited, not particularly attractive country to Merida, interesting on ...
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Murcia - Page 79
In the few days we spent in Murcia we had occasion several times to ask about places in regard to which no one was able to give a satisfactory answer. ...
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Tarragona - Page 34
QUR next objective point was the monas-tery of Poblet on the route from Tarragona to Lerida. Near Villafranca, a town about forty miles south of ...
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Barcelona - Page 34
Near Villafranca, a town about forty miles south of Barcelona, we bade farewell to Monserrat with all its pinnacles pointed heavenward in a flash of ...
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Pamplona - Page 240
We rode over Pamplona through the Pyrenees of the Basque provinces to San Sebastian and Irun, where our Spanish pilgrimage of three and a half months ...
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Madrid - Page 162
so hard that it could no longer be depended on, and as no help could be obtained in Cordova, we took the train to Madrid where it was delivered to the ...
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Salamanca - Page 213
In Zamora, after a scorching ride from Salamanca, we were sitting in the café near the fonda, when the president of the university came and sat with ...
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Tudela - Page 232
The effect is marred by its unfortunate position, and it seems out of place facing the narrow dingy streets of Tudela.
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Burgos - Page 223
the marvel of Burgos would probably have been only a blot on the architectural landscape instead of standing forth as a shining object in the panorama ...
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Perpignan - Page 1
turnpike running from Perpignan' across the Pyrenees to Figueras, but having learned that luggage sent from France into Spain by rail unaccompanied by ...
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Alcala - Page 138
which like a forgotten pennon of the Moorish host floats over the Andalucian city of romance. There is no need of an almshouse in Alcala.
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Orihuela - Page 75
For some miles beyond Elche the country remains flat, but before Orihuela mountains.
Castellon - Page 53
One beautiful evening we were riding along the coast route approaching Castellon de la Plana skirting the picturesque mountain spur called El Desierto ...
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Valencia - Page 58
The fondness shown by the inhabitants of Aragon and Navarre for destroying their antiquities was exercised in Valencia in the tearing down of the ...
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San Pedro - Page 207
Without the walls stand the beautiful churches of San Pedro and San Vicente strong rivals of the cathedral, and one wonders that so much of art should ...
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Palermo - Page 96
The gardens are large and contain many remarkable trees and plants, but do not compare with those of some of the villas near Palermo in the variety of ...
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Tortosa - Page 45
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Antequera - Page 186
Antequera. When we asked the fta/ron about it he was unable to give us any definite information. He said the excursion could be made.
San Roque - Page 104
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Albacete - Page 72
They carry, the long Albacete knife, which they use freely on slight provocation. On a lonely stretch between Alicante and Elche we espied ahead a ...
Jaen - Page 82
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Leon - Page xvi
north and east of Madrid, Old Castile, Leon, and Navarre. In the two last named provinces we did not meet with a bad road, and many would not suffer ...
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Cayenne - Page 12
All smoked cigarettes between the courses, for good Spaniards believe in smoke at meals, as some people believe in Cayenne pepper. ...
Florence - Page 192
their technical value, owing to the dark colour of their restorations do not possess the charm of tone and feeling of those in Rome and Florence. ...
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Venice - Page 132
Cadiz has been inaptly compared in situation with Venice, the only point common to the two being that they are practically surrounded by water. ...
Valladolid - Page 215
Valladolid has degenerated into one of the most uninteresting cities of Spain. To be sure its cathedral is the chef d'arnvre of Herrera, but those who ...
Rome - Page 192
their technical value, owing to the dark colour of their restorations do not possess the charm of tone and feeling of those in Rome and Florence. ...
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Toulouse - Page 14
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Paris - Page 190
Jies/a pass into a cafe,, as he does not, one moves on, suppressing a yawn thinking how much better grande yule allurements are understood in Paris. ...
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Corpus Christi - Page 165
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