The Moors in Spain
Gelesen von S S Kim
Stanley Lane-Poole
(3,923 Sterne; 13 Bewertungen)
“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long catalogue of kingdoms subdued by the Moslems. For nearly eight centuries, under her Mohammedan rulers, Spain set to all Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened State. Her fertile provinces, rendered doubly prolific by the industry and engineering skill of her conquerors, bore fruit an hundredfold. Cities innumerable sprang up in the rich valleys of the Guadalquivir and the Guadiana, whose names, and names only, still commemorate the vanished glories of their past.” - Summary by Stanley Lane-Poole (7 hr 10 min)
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(4 Sterne)
The accent of the reader actually adds to this book as it can be interpreted as Arab or Spanish. It is a rather dense book at first then gets more interesting
B. Sponge
(2,5 Sterne)
I wish I could understand what the reader was saying.