Grey hard covers with green front decoration/spine titles VG, spine lightly sunned, light foxing few early pages, brown vertical strip tp FEPs, text block otherwise excellent. b/w frontis/title page decoration by Arthur Rackham, folded route map at back. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. 488 pages including bibliography, notes, glossary, index. First published November 1934 and reprinted that month, this 'cheap edition' 1936. /rebates/2fSpanish-raggle-taggle-adventures-with-a-fiddle-in-north-Spain-Walter-Starkie2fbook2f6246309&. that I have ever read.' These accolades hold true today. His reputation is principally based on his popular travel writing: Raggle-Taggle (1933), Spanish Raggle-Taggle (1934) and Don Gypsy (1936). Great sewn-in binding for this 399 p travelaholics icon. Walter Fitzwilliam Starkie CMG, CBE, Litt.D (9 August 1894 2 November 1976) was an Irish scholar, Hispanist, writer and musician. Good condition, foxing to first/last half doz pp, otherwise good copy of this interesting travel book which includes travel in Hungary and Roumania. Critics at the time described it as an 'immortal travel book', 'one of the most delightful travel books' and 'the best book of travel in this region. RAGGLE-TAGGLE Adventures with a Fiddle in Hungary and Roumania by Starkie Walter. Not long after his visit Spain was changed forever by its tragic Civil War, so the professor's record of his travels is one of the last from a Spain at peace.

In the early 1930s Walter Starkie, Professor of Spanish at Dublin University, spent a summer in northern Spain as a wandering minstrel, living off the proceeds of his fiddle music.

Raggle-Taggle by Walter Starkie