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Mallorca books, maps and guides
Here are some recommended books, guides and maps for Mallorca that you can review in more detail and buy online direct from this page at Amazon UK
Wild Olives: Life in Majorca with Robert Graves
One book we heartily recommend is "Wild Olives: Life in Majorca with Robert Graves". Written by his son, William, this is a light read and charming book that gives a real flavour for Mallorca as it used to be.
Whilst focussed on the Deia area where Robert and William lived, Wild Olives gives a real insight to the whole of Mallorca. It brings to life the recent history of the island in a way that helps to explain how the island operates and how it has retained so much from its past.
Further details: As a five-year-old child, William Graves is taken in 1944 from England to a mountain village in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had returned with his new family to the place where he had lived before the war. William grows up in the writer's shadow, while experiencing the way of life of the Mallorcans which had hardly changed for hundreds of years.
William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca - the food, the pattern of the seasons, the camaraderie and rivalries within the village, and the growing sense, from the 1960s onwards, that his fragile paradise was under threat. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his "Muses" and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.
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Other recommended books
Here is a range of novels, general interest books and guides to Mallorca with direct delivery from Amazon UK.
The Taste of Place Mallorca
Author: Vicky Bennison
Recipies and general interest: ... a perfect book for discovering the real Mallorca... this is a walking, talking, scrumptious, hip-book of the gastronomic world ...
Bob Burns Investigates: The Mallorca Connection
Author: Peter Kerr
Novel: ... just like his brilliant travel writing, Peter Kerr's "Bob Burns investigates" is extremely well-written; highly entertaining; witty; and the places are so vividly described they spring to life ...
Rafael's Wings: A Novel of Mallorca
Author: Sian Mackay
Novel: ... This is a magic and wise tale. A spiritual, real, raw and hidden Mallorca, far from the crowds of tourists ...
"Time Out" Mallorca and Menorca
Author: Jonathan Cox
Guide: ... famous for its city guides, takes a break from the urban world with this complete look at Mallorca and Menorca. This culturally savvy book seeks out the undiscovered treats of the island ...
Witches, Oranges and Slingers: Half a Century on Mallorca
Author: Elena Davis
Historical guide: ... I have learnt so much about Mallorca which I love and about the period when Franco ruled and how things have changed in the eyes of the Author ...
A Birdwatching Guide to Mallorca
Authors: Jon King and Graham Hearl
Guide for birdwatchers: ... still the best for birdwatching in Mallorca and would be especially useful to the first-time visitor ...
Gaudi in the Cathedral of Mallorca
Author: Pere-Joan Llabres
Photographers: Jordi Puig and Vivas Ortiz Pere
Photographic guide: ... talks about the outcome of this artist intervention of Antoni Gaudi, which combined the elegance of Gothic style with the boldness of Modernism ...
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