The Bible in Spain
Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula

This 1843 travelogue, describing Spain and its 'exotic' population was hugely successful with early Victorian readers.

George Henry Borrow (Author)

9781108009997, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

404 pages
21.6 x 2.3 x 14 cm, 0.51 kg

George Borrow (1803–1881) was a British author, adventurer, and agent of the Bible Society whose journeys in the mid-nineteenth century took him to both Russia and Spain. His experiences are reflected in books including The Zincali (1841) and his best-known publication, The Bible in Spain (1843). Described by Borrow as 'the journey, adventures, and imprisonment of an Englishman in an attempt to circulate the scriptures in the peninsula', it is mostly a compilation of his voluminous correspondence with the Bible Society. This third volume includes the story of Borrow's arrest and imprisonment for his efforts at distributing the New Testament. The book, at once an exotic travelogue and a document revealing the religious tensions of the period, was enthusiastically received by early Victorian readers.

1. The prohibition
2. The two gospels
3. Ofalia. 4
Maria Diaz
5. Liberation from prison
6. Villa Seca
7. Aranjuez
8. Return to Spain
9. Work of distribution resumes
10. Termination of our rural labours
11. Projected journey
12. The solitary house
13. Night on the Guadalquivir
14. Cadiz
15. The jolly hostler
16. Genoese mariners
17. Again on board
18. The mole
19. The Mahasni
20. Strange trio.

Subject Areas: Church history [HRCC2]