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Ghost Train Through the Andes Paperback – 19 April 2007

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Michael Jacobs so steeped his youth in erudition that until he was forty he didn't know who the Beatles were. He then burst from this shell and, making up for lost time, plunged into the wilder side of life. This unusual reversal gives him a unique voice, one that combines wit, warmth and wildness and seasons it with enough solid knowledge to give you confidence that you're in good hands. Ghost Train Through the Andes gives full measure of this extraordinary traveller and gifted writer. If you're not up to tramping the Atacama Desert or wandering through Bolivia on the eve of revolution, best let Michael Jacobs do it for you. ― Chris Stewart

'This is more than a travel book . . . it's also a love story' ―
Nicholas Bagnall, Sunday Telegraph

'A fascinating travel book' ―
Sunday Times

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Turbulent, tender, irreverent and funny . . . Sheer delight ―
Joanne Harris, author of CHOCOLAT

Michael Jacobs' book does everything a book ought to do: it amuses, delights and instructs ―
Chris Stewart, author of DRIVING OVER LEMONS

A finale worthy of Fellini ―
Geraldine Cooke, Independent

A welcome reminder that close encounters of the Mediterranean kind don't have to be all froth and bubble ―
Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

A journey of Chaucerian richness ―
Barnaby Rogerson, Country Life

'A magical, enraptured book' ―
John Walsh, Independent

'Jacobs is one of the best writers on all things Spanish' ―
The Tablet

'The particular strength of this eloquent, unhurried tale is its depiction of the author's friendship with El Sereno . . . Theirs is a winning Quixote-Panza double act' ―
Miranda France, Daily Telegraph

Entertaining ―
Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph

'Skilfully weaves the journeys of grandfather and grandson, separated by almost a century . . .Jacobs . . .embraces South America with the hot, lustrous spirit of carnival' ―
Tarquin Hall, New Statesman

'A... bold and engaging family history.' ―
Rory McLean, Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Michael Jacobs was born in Italy. He studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, from which he has a doctorate. Spain has obsessed him since childhood and his numerous books include Andalucia, Between Hopes and Memories: A Spanish Journey and most recently Alhambra. He is a member of the Andalucian Academy of Gastronomy and in 2002 was made the first foreign knight of 'The Very Noble and Illustrious Order of the Wooden Spoon'.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0719561817
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0719561818
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