Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From the Sacred Mountain

Part I: The Perfect Border

    1. The Land

    2. The Vanishing Border

    3. “Africa Begins at the Pyrenees”

Part II: Pyrenean Crossings

    4. Scholars, Pilgrims, and Troubadours

    5. The Zone of War

    6. Safe Havens

Part III: The Magic Mountains

    7. Pioneers: The “Discovery” of the Pyrenees

    8. Visitors

    9. Lost Kingdoms

Part IV: A Home Above the World

    10. Mountain People

    11. Wild Things

    12. Ghost Towns

Epilogue: The Future in the Past: The Pyrenees in the Twenty-First Century

Notes

Index