Roads to Santiago: Detours in the Lands and History of Spain by Cees Nooteboom
Derived from studies and sketches made between 1979 and 1992, this book covers ten centuries of Spain's history - its politics, its architecture, its climate and its people. Cees Nooteboom won the European Literature Prize in 1993 for The Following Story, and won the Dutch Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature for Rituals. He is also the author of In the Dutch Mountains.