A Real Find

The 5-stars are not given without some thought - although it took very little. Sometimes you just 'find' something which goes much further than you thought the audiobook experience could provide. And this most certainly opened my 'ears' to what could be possible when form and content find such a happy connection. Please don't ask why? I went to the Alhambra many years ago and probably just clicked rather instinctively - not knowing that I would find myself completely engrossed in this book and its masterful narrator. Even I think it is somewhat obscure to say the least but it really shouldn't be.

The narrator is a revelation - how could you possibly find someone better for this book? He was born to do this and eases us through both centuries of history and walks up the Sierra Nevada with delightful relish in anything and everything. And yes - there is a wonderful restraint coupled with a wicked sense of humour.

A wonderful book; a magnificent reading. I got very lucky here and I would wish that fellow readers will also take the chance. I've never done a review before but I hope that I can do so again with something like this because there simply must be other gems out there for me to discover. Washington Irving is not, as far as I know, a very 'famous' author but this book should be compulsory reading for anyone who wishes to be taken 'away from it all' for a while.

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