The Moors in Spain
Stanley Lane-Poole
Read by S S Kim
“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)
Chapters
The Last of the Goths | 32:14 | Read by S S Kim |
The Wave of Conquest | 25:23 | Read by S S Kim |
The People of Andalusia | 26:54 | Read by S S Kim |
A Young Pretender | 32:29 | Read by S S Kim |
The Christian Martyrs | 31:36 | Read by S S Kim |
The Great Khalif | 22:36 | Read by S S Kim |
The Holy War | 27:14 | Read by S S Kim |
The City of the Khalif | 28:54 | Read by S S Kim |
The Prime Minister | 26:25 | Read by S S Kim |
The Berbers in Power | 32:03 | Read by S S Kim |
My Cid The Challenger | 45:43 | Read by S S Kim |
The Kingdom of Granada | 42:36 | Read by S S Kim |
The Fall of Granada | 33:17 | Read by S S Kim |
Bearing the Cross | 23:15 | Read by S S Kim |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
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
I wish I could understand what the reader was saying.