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Title: Getting to know Spain

Author: Dee Day

Illustrator: Don Lambo

Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29591]

Language: English

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Getting to Know

Spain illustrated by

DON LAMBO

Getting to know

Spain

by Dee Day

COWARD-MCCANN, INC. NEW YORK

(C) 1957, BY COWARD-MCCANN, INC.

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced
in any form without permission in writing from the publishers. Published
simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada by Longmans, Green & Company,
Toronto.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance and hospitality of
Direccion General del Turismo in all its offices in Spain, the Spanish
State Tourist Department in New York, and Iberia Air Lines of Spain,
without whose co-operation the gathering of much of the material and the
personal experience reflected in this book would have been impossible. A
majority of the pictures were drawn from photographs by Herb Kratovil,
taken especially for this book.

New York, 1957 Dee Day

Editor of this series: Sabra Holbrook

Seventh Impression

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 57-7427

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

For My Parents

[Illustration]

You probably know that it was a Queen of Spain, Isabella, who made it
possible for America to be discovered in 1492. It was an Italian sailor,
Christopher Columbus, who first had the strange new idea that he could
sail westward from Spain in order to reach the Far East. He came to
Spain to tell people about his idea, and everybody he met thought he was
crazy because they knew, or thought they knew, that the northern corner
of Spain, jutting out into the Atlantic, was the very end of the world.
Even the most daring sailors and fishermen wouldn't g