In the spring of 1927, V.S. Pritchett set out to walk 300 miles across Spain. At that time the country was almost completely isolated: many of the people he met had never seen a foreigner before. Yet despite their poverty, they received their odd English visitor, in his outlandish tweeds, was unfailing courtesy, hospitality and curiosity. Marching Spain is a vivid portrait of a timeless Spain, about to be torn apart by civil war, and a delightful record of personal discovery. V.S. Pritchett was born in Suffolk in 1900. Acclaimed as a master of the short story, he is also a noted critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer. Marching Spain is his first book.