The Bible in Spain

George Borrow's 'The Bible in Spain,' eloquently subtitled 'Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula,' is a travel narrative interwoven with ethnographic sketches and the grand enterprise of religious mission. The narrative unfolds amidst the convulsive landscape of 19th-century Spain, a nation wrestling with polit...