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Two naturalists ride into the Guadalquivir marshes, where wild camels walk among flamingoes and wigeon.
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Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
- Ongeveer 9 h 25 min7 h 30 min fast, 11 h 10 min slow
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- 134.300 woorden
- Bibliotheekniveau
- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1910by Abel Chapman; Walter J. Buck
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Onontdekt Spanje in short
Unexplored Spain is a field notebook of forty years. Two British naturalists take you from the high plateau to the sand and pine of Doñana, the flooded marismas, the ibex ranges and the bare plains of Estremadura. Each place gets close, practical detail, from a sand hole dug for geese to a drive laid out for bustards.
What Onontdekt Spanje is about
Who still explores a Europe with wolves, flamingoes and wild camels? Abel Chapman and Walter J. Buck do, in Unexplored Spain, a book of wild country, marsh, mountain and bird life. They are British naturalists who have hunted and watched in Spain for forty years.
Their home ground is the Coto Doñana, a wedge of sand, pine and scrub beside the Guadalquivir. From there they range to the Sierra Moréna, Grédos and the Picos de Europa. You get their field notes, their humor and their firm views on what Spain is losing.
Voor wie is het?. This is for readers who love wild places, birdwatching, hunting lore and old travel writing, and for anyone curious about Spain beyond its cities.
The 10 key ideas
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Real Spain begins where the byways end
Chapman and Buck draw a line between two Spains. One belongs to tourists on the main routes, with cathedrals and palaces. The other, the one they love, begins where the byways end, among sierras, steppes and marshes. They call it probably the wildest and certainly the least known country in Europe.
Height explains much of it. Spain is largely a raised tableland about 400 miles square, crossed by four mountain ranges. Height shapes climate, and climate shapes life. The central plains are scorched and bare, home to the great bustard. The north is rock, mist and pine, with brown bear and chamois.
The Moors left their mark too. Moorish farmers brought oranges, figs and silk, and counted tree planting as a good deed. The authors set that foresight against burned forests and trout killed with dynamite.
The wild country is the whole point of the book.
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Travel on horseback and sleep where you can
In wild Spain, travel means horseback.
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Doñana is a wedge of sand between river and sea
The Coto Doñana is the authors' hunting ground, where they have shared the rights for twenty-five years.
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Deer and boar teach patience and fieldcraft
Red deer in Doñana are the smallest in Spain.
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The marshes hold wildfowl in vast numbers
Behind Doñana lie the marismas, a flat delta that is dry in summer and flooded in winter.
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Pilgrims, bullfighters and bandits fill the human side
Beyond the wild, the book sketches Spanish customs.
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Flamingoes and wild camels live in the marsh
Flamingoes ignore borders, moving between Europe and Africa as rain fills or empties the lagoons.
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Ibex and red deer need mountains and protection
The Spanish ibex lives only on the Iberian Peninsula, in six mountain colonies cut off from each other.
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Bustards, Estremadura and the Hurdes
The great bustard rules the grain steppes, and the authors call it the grandest game bird in Europe.
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Spain can grow without losing what makes it wild
The book keeps returning to one charge, that Spain does not think about tomorrow.
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What is Unexplored Spain about?
It describes the wild side of Spain as two British naturalists found it over forty years. Marshes, mountains, game animals, birds and rural customs fill its chapters, with the Coto Doñana and the Guadalquivir marshes at its center.
Who are the authors of Unexplored Spain?
Abel Chapman and Walter J. Buck, British naturalists and sportsmen. Buck lived at Jerez, and they shared the Doñana hunting rights. The book is the sequel to their earlier work Wild Spain, with a preface dated 1910.
What is the Coto Doñana?
It is a wedge of sand, stone pine forest and scrub between the Guadalquivir and the Atlantic. It held red deer, boar, lynx and huge flocks of geese, and the authors hunted and watched there for twenty-five years.
Are there really wild camels in Spain?
The authors report meeting them in the marismas. The animals descend from camels brought to Spain in 1829 and later released. Herds roamed free for nearly a century, though poaching had reduced them by 1910.
Is Unexplored Spain worth reading today?
It gives vivid scenes of lost landscapes, sharp bird and animal observation and an early plea for conservation. Readers who like nature writing, travel and Spanish history will find clear, lively and concrete detail on every page.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Chapman, Abel, and Walter J. Buck. Unexplored Spain. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/unexplored-spain.
Chapman, A., & Buck, W. J. (2026). Unexplored Spain. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/unexplored-spain (Original work published 1910)
Chapman, Abel, and Walter J. Buck. Unexplored Spain. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/unexplored-spain.
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note = {First published 1910}
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