Abada as an excuse to travel

Thus, hard-to-find titles expanded my travel library and were easily cited in successive texts in my work on the subject. With feathers flying as Abada’s catalog grows over time, it is worth remembering that important and unpublished works have come to the fore thanks to Pepe Orts’ generosity towards this humble eater of travel books (pun intended). (at least I didn’t know) Like the picturesque notes Stevenson found about his country when, after giving a magnificent account of Edinburgh, he shook off the dust of Scotland and took refuge in the treasure island of Samoa. never to return. There’s also the globetrotting of American Richard Halliburton, who climbed the Matterhorn, clashed with pirates in Macau, and was imprisoned in Gibraltar for taking photographs in places he shouldn’t have. Or the Tibet trips of the famous writer Robert Byron, who crossed the Himalayas. And he said this.

Other gems from this publishing house are under the signature of restless New Yorker Henry James, who spent most of his life in Europe and is the author of The Turn of the Screw, one of the stories that most impressed me at the time. I know of at least four of Henry James’ travel stories published by Abada: his many and varied Venetian adventures; The letters he wrote from Venice were added to the traveling correspondence that included more than 10,000 letters to friends and editors; Although his Roman Holidays has nothing to do with the Roman Holidays of the trio of William Wyler, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, it is a magnificent book that brings together the experiences James cherished during his long stay in the Eternal City. And also his journey from Paris to the Pyrenees.

And they can’t lack an excellent travel library, such as the one offered by this publishing house in Madrid; the rhino library as an image and the narratives left to us by DH Lawrence, specializing in Pessoa’s poetry, with his Italy in Half Light. The work in which Abada complements the author’s previous views on the inter-Alpine country and the mornings of Sardinia or Mexico. Another urban story is Mohamed Métalsi’s Tangier, an exciting, international and disruptive city. And speaking of cities, why not visit the magnificent London left to us by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustavo Doré, two travelers in search of an urban environment that no longer exists, and which can also be seen in the 180 illustrations that enrich the book? Just like Charles Dickens’ illustrated walk through London. Since the list is important in terms of quantity and quality, in order not to overwhelm the reader, we should not forget some of the articles left to us by Virginia Woolf, the famous intellectual of the Bloomsbury Group, which are very well reflected in the book Evening in Sussex. Her two visits to Spain were, the first in 1905, when she went to Seville and Granada, and the second, eighteen years later, in 1923, when Virginia and her husband Leonard were at Yegen in the Alpujarra region of Granada. Invited by Gerald Brenan. An excursion perfectly reflected in one of the works of the British writer, such as Al sur de Granada or Memoria personal. The last thing to read, thanks to Abada, is Walter Benjamin’s exciting tour of Moscow or his journey to Italy at Pentecost 1912. Speaking of Italy, Gautier’s trip there in 1850 revisits Milan, Venice and Florence for readers. Another thing is Ilya Ehremburg’s story about his own Paris, which, unfortunately, is as much his as it is ours. This summer, I finished a work that is extraordinary even for those of us who have no knowledge of Gothic architecture, although we had read Hans Jantzen in our university days: Auguste Rodin’s Cathedrals of France, the sculptor’s artistic testament with hundreds of drawings. and France’s admiration for those temples of sweetness says: «Before I leave this world, I would at least like to declare my admiration for them. “I want to pay back for the happiness they gave me!” Said a seventy-year-old artist who sees himself at the end of his life.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll say goodbye (for a short time, of course) because I’m finishing the exciting book Greece and Us, which has just come off the press at the Madrid publishing house. A long journey in the history of Western thought from ancient Greece to the present day. A philosophical narrative and at the same time a dialogue with some contemporary thinkers (Husserl, Foucault, Derrida or García Calvo and others) who reinterpret the classical Greek heritage. This philosophical journey progresses in six branches: The understanding of time in ancient Greece; Three story concepts; Aristotle, Hanna Arendt and the global age; Aristotle and liberal economy with Polanyi as an Aristotelian reader; An ode to the terrestrial state of man on the Moon, and finally, no less, to the paradox of man and the return to Earth. I hope your turn will be an exciting copy about travelers in Antiquity, named after the Lost Steps of Cuban Alejo Carpentier, an unrepentant wanderer through the pillar-filled city of Havana. So, Abada Editors, as an excuse to talk about this exciting world of other people’s travels.