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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Getting to know Spain, by Dee Day This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Getting to know Spain Author: Dee Day Illustrator: Don Lambo Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29591] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GETTING TO KNOW SPAIN *** Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence that the copyright on this book has been renewed 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
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