{"id":98,"date":"2010-02-10T18:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-02-10T18:20:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:20:51","slug":"sir-john-carrs-travels-in-spain-in-1809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2010\/02\/10\/sir-john-carrs-travels-in-spain-in-1809\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir John Carr’s travels in Spain in 1809"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Descriptive<\/a>Sir John Carr (1772\u20131832) was a travel writer born in London on 6 December 1772. A short biography is available at the\u00a0Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Our copy of Descriptive travels in the southern and eastern parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles in the year 1809<\/strong><\/em> was published in London in 1811.
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0Descriptive travels …<\/strong><\/em> includes some interesting engravings of the city of Granada (frontispiece), C\u00e1diz from the sea (pp. 112-113), Valencia from the river Segura (pp. 254-255), Ermita de Santa Anna in Montserrat (pp. 316-317), La Granja d\u2019Esporles (pp. 356-357) and Port de Ma\u00f3 (pp. 368-369)<\/p>\n

\"Mahon,<\/a>
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\n\u00a0Appendix III contains a table with details about the different coins used in Spain, the \u201cSpanish Money\u201d (maraved\u00edes, reales, sols y diners) and its exchange rates.<\/p>\n

Sir John Carr visited Spain during the Peninsular War, providing the book with important episodes.<\/p>\n

The last chapter is entirely dedicated to the island of Menorca which had been under British sovereignty during the last hundred years (with the exception of the brief period of French occupation).<\/p>\n

Carr arrives in C\u00e1diz and travels around Andalusia. There are references to the Central Commission and to the Second Siege of Saragossa. After visiting Granada, Carr travels to Murcia, Valencia and Catalu\u00f1a, and finally ends his journey in Palma.<\/p>\n

Amongst the contents dealt with in the book, we can find odd references such as \u201cWaiters, Spanish, How called\u201d, \u201cWomen, Spanish, their devotional coquetry\u201d, or \u201cGalejos, or porters from Galicia, their honesty\u201d, etc.<\/p>\n

Although Sir John Carr met Lord Byron in C\u00e1diz, there are no references in this index about this meeting.<\/p>\n

USEFUL LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

About the Author <\/span>(in Spanish):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dipalme.org\/Servicios\/Anexos\/anexosiea.nsf\/VAnexos\/IEA-LVA09\/$File\/LVA09.pdf (pages 6 to 7)<\/p>\n

About the book<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Cristina Torres-Fontes Su\u00e1rez. Viajes de extranjeros por el reino de Murcia. T. 1
\nAsamblea Regional Real Academia Alfonso X el Sabio\u00a0
\n1996\u00a0 ISBN84-88996-05-5\u00a0
\nhttp:\/\/www.cervantesvirtual.com\/servlet\/SirveObras\/01604529214583901890035\/023652_0038.pdf<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is an extract in Spanish about the \u00abReino de Murcia\u00bb
\n\u00a0http:\/\/www.cervantesvirtual.com\/servlet\/SirveObras\/04700624244616662232268\/023653_0054.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sir John Carr (1772\u20131832) was a travel writer born in London on 6 December 1772. A short biography is available at the\u00a0Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Our copy of Descriptive travels in the southern and eastern parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles in the year 1809 was published in London in 1811. \u00a0 \u00a0Descriptive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,60,65,68],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}