Andalucia

Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Garden of Earthly Delights. Part One: Iberia: From Prehistory to the Visigoths. 1. Gardens of Stone. 2. Tartessos. 3. La Dama de Baza (Deities of Death). 4. Gadir/Cadiz. 5. The Heavenly Cities of Baetica. 6. Vandalucia. Part Two: Al-Andalus: From Invasion to the Fall of Granada. 7. Tariq's Rock. 8. The Blackbird of Baghdad. 9. Taming a Wilderness. 10. The Library of Babel. 11. Two Gentlemen of Cordoba. Parr Three: Espana: From Reconquest to the Twenty-First Century. 12. 1492. 13. Taking the Garden Indoors. 14. Nights in the Gardens of Spain. 15. The Picasso Century. 16. Englishmen Abroad. 17. Federico Garcia Lorca's Last Night on Earth. 18. Death in the Afternoon. 19. The Shrimp from the Island. 20. La Franja ("The Fringe"). Further Reading. Index