Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from George Borrow, Vol. 18: An English Humorist in Spain
Seventy-five years ago two englismen travelled over the length and breadth of the Spanish Peninsula on widely different missions. One was Richard Ford, who was en gaged in compiling a handbook on Spain for John Murray, the well known London publisher; the other was George Borrow, who had undertaken the sale of Spanish Testa ments in order to spread the Word of the Gospel on behalf of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
The results as published by both travellers seem destined to endure: Ford's Handbook is still the authorita tive and most readable introduction to the conditions in Spain during the thirties of the last century; Borrow 's' The Bible in Spain, a most brilliant and melodramatic mix ture of truth and buncombe, has continued to appear in edition after edition for reasons not far to seek. The English reading public has not only been content to see anglo-saxon superiority once more dramatically and irrefut ably demonstrated, but it continues to welcome a book which seems to justify our traditional indifference to the subject. Treated, namely, poor backward Spain and the benightedl Spanish people.
The characters of Ford and Borrow could not have been more diametrically opposed.
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