Unexplored Spain

UNEXPLORED SPAIN
ABEL CHAPMAN’S WORKS
BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS . First Edition, 1889; —— ——, Second Edition, 1907. WILD SPAIN . (With W. J. B.) 1893. WILD NORWAY . 1897. ART OF WILDFOWLING . 1896. ON SAFARI (In British East Africa). 1908. UNEXPLORED SPAIN. (With W. J. B.) 1910.
BY ABEL CHAPMAN AUTHOR OF ‘WILD SPAIN,’ ‘WILD NORWAY,’ ‘ON SAFARI,’ ETC. AND WALTER J. BUCK BRITISH VICE-CONSUL AT JEREZ AUTHOR OF ‘WILD SPAIN’ WITH 209 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEPH CRAWHALL, E. CALDWELL, AND ABEL CHAPMAN AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS NEW YORK LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD 1910
INSCRIBED BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION TO THEIR MAJESTIES KING ALFONSO XIII. HIMSELF AN ACCOMPLISHED SPORTSMAN AND QUEEN VICTORIA EUGENIA OF SPAIN WITH DEEP RESPECT BY THEIR MAJESTIES’ GRATEFUL AND DEVOTED SERVANTS THE AUTHORS
THE undertaking of a sequel to Wild Spain , we are warned, is dangerous. The implication gratifies, but the forecast alarms not. Admittedly, in the first instance, we occupied a virgin field, and naturally the almost boyish enthusiasm that characterised the earlier book—and probably assured its success—has in some degree abated. But it’s not all gone yet; and any such lack is compensated by longer experience (an aggregate, between us, of eighty years) of a land we love, and the sounder appreciation that arises therefrom. Our own resources, moreover, have been supplemented and reinforced by friends in Spain who represent the fountain-heads of special knowledge in that country.
No foreigners could have enjoyed greater opportunity, and we have done our best to exploit the advantage—so far, at least, as steady plodding work will avail; for we have spent more than two years in analysing, checking and sorting, selecting and eliminating from voluminous notes accumulated during forty years. The concentrated result represents, we are convinced, an accurate—though not, of course, a complete—exposition of the wild-life of one of the wildest of European countries.