Michael Jacobs

Michael Jacobs was born in Italy and studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. The Hispanic world has obsessed him since childhood and his numerous books include Andalucía, Between Hopes and Memories: A Spanish Journey, Ghost Train through the Andes, and The Factory of Light: Tales from my Andalucían Village, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is a broadcaster on Spanish National Radio and in 2002 was made the first foreign knight of ‘The Very Noble and Illustrious Order of the Wooden Spoon’. For the last two years he has been chairman of the Dolman Travel Book Award.

Telegraph Review of Andes