Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Stewart, Chris

 
9780953522705: Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0953522709 ISBN 13: 9780953522705
Editorial: Sort of Books, 1999

Sinopsis

Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist.

At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour Domingo...not watched his baby daughter Chloë grow and thrive there...nor written this book.

Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to.

Driving Over Lemons is that rare thing: a funny, insightful book that charms you from the first page to the last...and one that makes running a peasant farm in Spain seem like a distinctly gd move. Chris transports us to Las Alpujarras, an oddball region south of Granada, and into a series of misadventures with an engaging mix of peasant farmers and shepherds, New Age travellers and ex-pats. The hero of the piece, however, is the farm that he and Ana bought, El Valero - a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, with no access road, water supply or electricity.

Could life offer much better than that?

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Chris Stewart shot to fame with Driving Over Lemons in 1999. Funny, insightful and real, the book tells the story of how he bought a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river, with its previous owner still resident. It became an international bestseller, along with its sequels - A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society and The Last Days of the Bus Club.

In an earlier life, Chris was the original drummer in Genesis (he played on the first album), then joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, went to China to write the Rough Guide, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cooking. His sort of prequel, Three Ways to Capsize a Boat, fills in his lost years as a yacht skipper in the Greek islands.

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Editorial
Sort of Books
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0953522709
ISBN 13 
9780953522705
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
240
Contacto del fabricante
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Purmerul LTD
https://strengholt.nl/en/

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Plovdiv
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Bulgaria

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9781908745859: Driving Over Lemons - Anniversary Edition: An Optimist in Andalucia

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ISBN 10:  1908745851 ISBN 13:  9781908745859
Editorial: Profile Books, 2020
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