The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society di…

Sto caricando le informazioni...

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society (edizione 2006)

di Chris Stewart

Serie: Driving Over Lemons (3)

Utenti	Recensioni	Popolarità	Media voti	Citazioni
234	7	115,982	(3.71)	11
Biography & Autobiography. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:THE ALMOND BLOSSOM APPRECIATION SOCIETY finds Chris and his family still living o their farm, El Valero, and with its easy 'Sun-Lit' charm and funny, evocative anecdotes, it will draw in new and old readers alike. You will find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. You'll cringe with Chris as he stries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four destitute young Moroccans at El Valero. And you'll never see olive oil in quite the same way again... In this sequel to 'Lemons' and 'Parrot', Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever. Chris Stewart prepared for life on a mountain farm in Spain with jobs of doubtful relevance. After leaving Genesis (he drummed on the first album), he joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, crewed a yacht in Greece, went to China for the Rough Guides, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cooking. Despite the extraordinary success of his books, Chris, Ana and their daughter Chloe continue to live on their farm, with their numerous dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and misanthropic parrot.… (altro)

▾Informazioni sul libro

Utente:	whichcord
Titolo:	The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
Autori:	Chris Stewart
Info:	London : Sort Of Books, 2006.
Collezioni:	La tua biblioteca, In lettura, Da leggere, Letti ma non posseduti
Voto:
Etichette:	Nessuno

Informazioni sull'opera

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society di Chris Stewart

tutti i membri

▾Utenti

Aggiunto di recente da

Alan301261, michaelwatkins, stacey.garrett, whichcord, Oshanter, GuildfordInstitute, tomcrawshaw, coppo23

▾Etichette

▾Consigli di LibraryThing

▾Liste

Nessuno

▾Ti piacerà?

Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

▾Conversazioni (Su link)

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi le 11 citazioni

▾Recensioni di utenti

Inglese (5) Spagnolo (2) Tutte le lingue (7)

data ▼ | voti

1-5 di 7 (prossimo | mostra tutto)

This is book three in the Driving Over Lemons series by Stewart. All three of the books are set in Andalusian Spain where Stewart and his wife moved after purchasing a subsistence sheep farm in a remote mountainous area of southern Spain. The series starts in the 1990's and the last book was published in 2014. Stewart was a minor celebrity when he purchased the farm. He was the original drummer for the rock band Genesis. His books have made him into a well known European author due to their best seller status in the UK and in Europe. The books are not well known in the USA and I had to get all of them through Inter-Library Loan requests. Almost all of them came from public library collections.

This series is really fun to read. They are part memoir and part travelogue as they chronicle the day-to-day life on the farm and in the remote villages of Spain. They also give details of travels that Stewart and his family do around Spain. In this book, the Almond Blossom Appreciation Society is a small group of men who hike up into the mountains to see the blossoms on the Almond trees. There is also a chapter on Stewart's skiing trip during a wicked cold snap, and his venture into Morocco to gather seeds to sell to gardeners in the UK. There is also details of farm life and the constant struggles of such a life that are leavened with humor and just the right amount of pathos. (

)

benitastrnad | May 12, 2024 |

Thoroughly enjoyable sequel, Great tales from Andalucia - especially liked the wave of cold! (

)

cbinstead | Sep 25, 2023 |

An entertaining series of anecdotes about life in the Alpujarras. Easy reading. (

)

cazfrancis | Mar 17, 2015 |

De las vivencias del autor emerge el retrato de un hombre inasequible al desaliento y siempre dispuesto a acometer nuevos desafíos, ya sea cuando forma parte del Club de Admiradores de los Almendros en Flor, cuando su hija lo instruye en los usos y costumbres de los adolescentes españoles, o cuando inesperadamente le toca hacer una visita guiada de Sevilla a millonarios norteamericanos y a posteriori decide enfrentarse al trabajo de oficina en un centro de ayuda al inmigrante. Los almendros en flor es una muestra más de la capacidad de Chris para contagiarnos con su mirada abierta, su optimismo sincero y, sobre todo, su inquebrantable buen humor.

bibliest | Sep 8, 2011 |

Empeñado en mantener una saludable ingenuidad ante lo que la realidad cotidiana le depara, Chris Stewart vuelve a deleitarnos con episodios asombrosos de su vida campestre en «El Valero», su ya famosa finca en la Alpujarra granadina. Las vivencias recogidas en este tercer volumen de la serie iniciada con Entre limones y El loro en el limonero reflejan el particular talante de una persona con una incorregible tendencia a actuar movida por cierta visión idealista de las cosas. Los almendros en flor es una muestra más de la capacidad de Chris para contagiarnos con su mirada abierta, su optimismo sincero y, sobre todo, su inquebrantable buen humor. (

)

bibliosa | Aug 30, 2011 |

data ▼ | voti

1-5 di 7 (prossimo | mostra tutto)

▾Recensioni da fonti esterne

nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione

▾Altri autori

» Aggiungi altri autori

▾Relazioni tra serie ed opera

Appartiene alle Serie

Driving Over Lemons (3)

▾Premi e riconoscimenti

guarda la cronologia

▾Informazioni generali

Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.

Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.

Titolo canonico

Titolo originale

Titoli alternativi

Data della prima edizione

Personaggi

Luoghi significativi

Eventi significativi

Film correlati

Epigrafe

Dedica

Incipit

Citazioni

Ultime parole

Nota di disambiguazione

Redattore editoriale

Elogi

Lingua originale

DDC/MDS Canonico

LCC canonico

▾Riferimenti

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese

Nessuno

▾Descrizioni del libro

Biography & Autobiography. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:THE ALMOND BLOSSOM APPRECIATION SOCIETY finds Chris and his family still living o their farm, El Valero, and with its easy 'Sun-Lit' charm and funny, evocative anecdotes, it will draw in new and old readers alike.

You will find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society.

You'll cringe with Chris as he stries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four destitute young Moroccans at El Valero. And you'll never see olive oil in quite the same way again...

In this sequel to 'Lemons' and 'Parrot', Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever. Chris Stewart prepared for life on a mountain farm in Spain with jobs of doubtful relevance. After leaving Genesis (he drummed on the first album), he joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, crewed a yacht in Greece, went to China for the Rough Guides, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cooking.

Despite the extraordinary success of his books, Chris, Ana and their daughter Chloe continue to live on their farm, with their numerous dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and misanthropic parrot.

▾Descrizioni da biblioteche

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

▾Descrizione degli utenti di LibraryThing

Descrizione del libro

Riassunto haiku