''Journey to the Alcarria'' ( es, Viaje a la Alcarria, links=no) is a

travel book The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period ...

by the Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author Camilo José Cela. It was published in 1948. Written in the third person, the book describes the author's travels in the Alcarria region of Spain. It has been described as "the most celebrated Spanish travelogue of all times". It was translated into English by

Frances M. López-Morillas Frances López-Morillas, née Frances Elinor Mapes (September 3, 1918 – November 6, 2018) was an American translator of Spanish-language literature into English. Biography López-Morillas was born in Fulton, Missouri, and raised in Iowa City ...

and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1964. In 1986, the author published a follow-up book called ''Nuevo viaje a la Alcarria''.Old Spain and New Spain: The Travel Narratives of Camilo José Cela (Book Review)
Farleigh Dickinson University

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