{"product_id":"lost-paradise","title":"LOST PARADISE","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson.\u003cbr\u003e An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller  BBC History Magazine\u003cbr\u003e A glittering homage to one of the world s most beautiful and storied cities  Dan Jones\u003cbr\u003e Beauty built on blood and brutality... A fascinating new tome  Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the early Middle Ages to the present, foreign travellers have been bewitched by Granada s peerless beauty. The Andalusian city is also the stuff of story and legend, with an unforgettable history to match. Romans, then Visigoths, settled here, as did a community of Jews; in the eleventh century a Berber chief made Granada his capital, and from 1230 until 1492 the Nasrids – Spain s last Islamic dynasty – ruled the emirate of Granada from their fortress-palace of the Alhambra. After capturing the city to complete the Christian Reconquista, the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella made the Alhambra the site of their royal court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Lost Paradise, Elizabeth Drayson takes the reader on a voyage of discovery that uncovers the many-layered past of Spain s most complex and fascinating city, celebrating and exploring its evolving identity. Her account brings to the fore the image of Granada as a lost paradise, revealing it as a place of perpetual contradiction and linking it to the great dilemma over Spain s true identity as a nation. This is the story of a vanished Eden, of a place that questions and probes Spain s deep obsession with forgetting, and with erasing historical and cultural memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157668266020,"sku":null,"price":2605.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9781788547437.jpg?v=1768298996","url":"https:\/\/vanguardbooks.com\/products\/lost-paradise","provider":"Vanguard Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}