Bulls Before Breakfast
Running with the Bulls and Celebrating Fiesta de San FermĂn in Pamplona, Spain
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Bulls Before Breakfast
Running with the Bulls and Celebrating Fiesta de San FermĂn in Pamplona, Spain
About this book
Ever since Ernest Hemingway popularized the fiesta de San FermĂn with the publication of
The Sun Also Rises in 1926, the world has been enthralled with the concept of running with the bulls. For millions, running with the bulls remains on their bucket list, and for Hemingway fans it is a lifelong dream. For Peter N. Milligan, it is a way of life. Part memoir and part travel guide,
Bulls Before Breakfast recounts Milligan's many adventures in Pamplona, Spain. In his dozen years of visiting the fiesta de San FermĂn, Milligan has run with the bulls over 70 times and accumulated stories both thrilling and terrifying.
Bulls Before Breakfast is the definitive guide to Pamplona, its famed fiesta, and the surrounding Kingdom of Navarra. It is also a memoir of two brothers running with the bulls and exploring every corner of the city, the countryside, the mountains, the beaches, and the famed restaurants of the Basque hinterland. The book focuses on local knowledge, and the hidden mysteries of this closed, private culture and community. Milligan has slowly pried open this trove of secrets over the past twelve years, all while refining the art of getting between the horns of a massive, perfect Spanish killing machine, el toro bravo, and running for his life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Map of Pamplona and Encierro Course
- Foreword
- IntroductionâBrazos en Jarra (our Pamplona family)
- 1. Breakfast After Bulls (a perfect day)
- 2. The Running of the Bulls (this is what it is)
- 3. Burninâ Daylight (getting ready for Pamplona)
- 4. Etxea (history of the San FermĂn fiesta)
- 5. Charlie Donât Surf (philosophy of running)
- 6. (Cobblestoned) Street of Dreams (a daily plan)
- 7. The Other 23 Hours and 57 Minutes (what do we do all day)
- 8. A Side Trip into Our Most Excellent Adventure (leaving the fiesta behind sometimes)
- 9. The Feria del Toro (the bullfight)
- 10. Dining Like a King (dining in the Basque country)
- 10.5. A Kingâs Coffee (A separate chapter? Yes, itâs that important.)
- 11. AS-204/Apollo 1 (surviving a serious injury)
- 12. From Here On In, Itâs Frank Sinatra (why we return)
- Letâs Agree on Some Terms
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright