by John Ardagh, David Baird, Vicky Hayward · Van Reemst · tapa dura · ISBN 9789041033529
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«Capitool Spanje» is the travel guide by John Ardagh, David Baird and Vicky Hayward, published by Van Reemst in hardcover (672 pages, in Dutch).
Travel guide in Dutch covering Spain by region: the north, Catalonia and Aragon, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Andalusia, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. Combines practical information with abundant visual material: maps, city plans, cutaway drawings of monuments and photographs of castles, beaches, festivals, museums, tapas, wine and paradores.
The edition is listed as 'druk 10' (tenth printing) within the Capitool reisgidsen series. ISBN 978-90-410-3352-9.
Aimed at travelers wishing to prepare for or accompany a trip through Spain with a visual and detailed guide, practical before, during and after the journey.
John Ardagh was a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied classics and philosophy. From 1953 until 1959, he was a staff writer and correspondent for The Times in France and Algeria. His interest in provincial themes developed through work for Independent Television News and as a correspondent for The Observer (1960–66), mainly writing about culture. His book The New French Revolution, first published in 1968, has been updated many times, most recently as France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society (1999) Ardagh wrote other books to reflect "real" life in Europe. Tale of Five Cities, based on major provincial centers of Europe, appeared in 1979. Germany and the Germans he wrote in 1987, together with his German wife, Katharina. Ireland and the Irish (1994) drew on his family roots. He was also managing editor of the Good Food Guide from 1966 to 1968 and European editor of the Good Hotel Guide for 25 years. Ardagh continued to work for better cross-Channel understanding as a member of the Franco-British Council (1992–98). His name is associated with a study of publishing in France and Britain (1995), produced with the French historian, François Crouzet. The French Government made him a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
