Michael Jacobs (5) (1952–2014)
Autore di The Most Beautiful Villages of Provence
Per altri autori con il nome Michael Jacobs, vedi la pagina di disambiguazione.
Sull'Autore
Michael Jacobs is the author of several travel books, including The Factory of Light: Tales from my Andalucian Village, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He lives in Spain and London.
Serie
Opere di Michael Jacobs
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1952-10-15
- Data di morte
- 2014-01-11
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Italy (birth)
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Genoa, Italy
- Luogo di morte
- St. Batholomew's Hospital, London, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Frailes, Andalucia, Spain
- Istruzione
- Courtauld Institute of Art
- Attività lavorative
- art historian
travel writer - Relazioni
- Blunt, Anthony (tutor)
Utenti
Recensioni
Interesting as far as its Colombian setting.However, it lacks a central theme and seems to be a bit all over the place. Part travel book, part adventure, part literary, part biographical, part alzheimer's study (hence the title). It just doesn't seem to fit together and therefore achieves less that it could have.
Jacobs doesn't so much travel across the length and breadth of Spain, as strip mine it. He visits (in many cases revisits) places that figured at some time in the history of just about every figure of note (real or imagined) in Spanish literature. In the process he is immersed (courtesy of old friends and his dogged pursuit of monuments and memories) in the local culture of hundreds of town and cities which he goes on to describe with an eye that is both sympathetic and critical. There is a serviceable index included, which is handy when you want to put your finger once more onto the reference to Graham Greene or Mussolini's sister. This wouldn't figure high on the list of recommended guides to your casual visitor to Spain; but if you have a literary bent and are travelling in that direction it would work very well for you. It is a creditable guide to Spanish (and Gallician and Catalan and ...) culture and issues in the 1990's, and an interesting follow-up and reflection on the Spanish writings of Gerald Brennan or Laurie Lee.… (altro)
1 
nandadevi | 1 altra recensione | Jun 5, 2012 |
nandadevi | 1 altra recensione | Jun 5, 2012 | 
This is an illustrated guide to places in Great Britain and Ireland with which artists have been associated. Following the introductory essay the book is in the form of a gazetteer arranged by geographical region. The book includes a bibliography and an Index of Persons, Index of Works Illustrated and an Index of Places.
The entries vary in length from generally a paragraph or two to occasionally a page or more. The book is illustrated throughout in monochrome and colour, the images running with the text, and varying in size from quite small up to full page and occasionally double page.
The quality of the reproduction, especially the black and white images is not good, the heavy dark areas obscure any detail there, the colour images fair somewhat better, but are not great. In total there are 297 illustrations including 72 in colour.
An interesting idea, a shame about the quality of the images.
ISBN 0714819328, Phaidon, 1980, Hardback, 320 pages, 10" x 7"… (altro)
The entries vary in length from generally a paragraph or two to occasionally a page or more. The book is illustrated throughout in monochrome and colour, the images running with the text, and varying in size from quite small up to full page and occasionally double page.
The quality of the reproduction, especially the black and white images is not good, the heavy dark areas obscure any detail there, the colour images fair somewhat better, but are not great. In total there are 297 illustrations including 72 in colour.
An interesting idea, a shame about the quality of the images.
ISBN 0714819328, Phaidon, 1980, Hardback, 320 pages, 10" x 7"… (altro)
Liste
TLL Reading List (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 39
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 740
- Popolarità
- #34,321
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 186
- Lingue
- 8
I generally enjoy travel literature, and I enjoyed reading about the landscape, people, history and politics of Colombia, but the highlights for me were the author's discussions of Alzheimer's, his father's diaries and his mother's dementia. This book was much sadder than I expected, but still a pleasure to read.