Ghost Train
Through the
Andes
The Factory
of Light
In the Glow
of
the
Phantom
Palace,
Travels from
Granada
to
Timbuktu
Between Hopes
and Memories
Andalucia
The Good and
Simple Life
Artist,
Colonies in
Europe and
America
Other Books
'The beginning of Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia…is one of the most copied introductions of any 20th century travel book. Michael Jacobs’s latest volume opens with equal success…
'.moments of great joy and overwhelming beauty…There is enough exoticism here to keep the most demanding armchair traveller happy…
…the author’s tenderness, sympathy, dry humour and sharp insight…It is rare to find such a successful emotional strand in a travel book’
Anthony Sattin, The Sunday Times
THE FACTORY OF LIGHT ‘A journey of Chaucerian richness’,
Barnaby Rogerson, Country Life
‘The particular strength of this eloquent, unhurried tale is its author’s depiction of El Sereno…Theirs is a winning, Quixote-Panza double act’,
Miranda France, The Daily Telegraph
‘The descriptions of events and encounters throughout the book burst with vividness and energy. Jacobs’s skills as a writer combined with his knowledge of Spain, and passion for its people have resulted in a refreshing alternative to the many travelogues that have already dealt with the ever popluar theme of moving to a Mediterranean village’,
Lynne Fearn, Birmingham Post
IN THE GLOW OF THE PHANTOM PALACE, TRAVELS FROM GRANADA TO TIMBUKTU
Pallas Athene 2000
‘The author is indefatigable as he hunts down Moorish relics, from hot springs and disused towers to Malian descendents of Andalusian soldiers. Jacobs is the author of several excellent books on Spain and this is his most ambitious work to date, mixing history, the accounts of earlier travellers and Jacobs’s own experiences and imaginings…this is the most revealing and unsentimental examination of al-Andalus and its legacy that I have read’
Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times
‘He is the best sort of travelling companion: whether hunting down the genuine relics of the Moors of Andalucía among the schmaltz of the past century or joining a Bacchic orgy in the dark waters of some ancient bath…Beneath the entertaining hedonism, however, this is the work of an exceptionally well-informed mind.’
Barnaby Rogerson, Country Life
BETWEEN HOPES AND MEMORIES, A SPANISH JOURNEY
Picador 1994
‘…an extremely penetrating critique of Spanish culture and a learned commentary on the country’s literature…a most absorbing book’
Wanderlust
‘…Jacobs’s description of people is as sharp as his observation of places…an engaging book which wears its considerable scholarship lightly and frequently punctures the author’s – and others’ – pretensions’
Tony Gould, The Spectator
‘funny, learned and beautifully written travelogue’,
Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman
A GUIDE TO ANDALUSIA
Viking/Penguin 1990
Re-issued as Andalucía Pallas Athene, 1997
‘[Jacobs] is the George Borrow of the High Speed Train era'
ABC
‘Take Michael Jacobs’s Guide to Andalusia – there is no other book to compare’
Cosmopolitan
‘Thorough, opinionated, up-to-date, and an antidote to sloppy romanticisms’
Jan Morris ‘Selects her Ten Favourite Books on Spain’, The Times
THE GOOD AND SIMPLE LIFE, ARTIST COLONIES IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
Phaidon 1985
‘…one of the most agreeable and amusing art books published recently: it deserves to be considered by the jury of the Mitchell Prize’
Denys Sutton, Apollo
‘[Michael Jacobs] manages to make social history, political background, topographical erudition, and substantial gobbits of information on the themes and working methods of a large cast of painters, into a readable entertainment’
Irish News