{"id":2332,"date":"2014-01-13T22:47:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:43:41","slug":"in-memoriam-michael-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2332","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam &#8211; Michael Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael-jacobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/michael-jacobs.jpg\" alt=\"michael-jacobs\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Deeply saddened by news of Michael Jacobs\u2019 sudden death a few days ago, from cancer of the kidney which was only diagnosed in September.\u00a0 He was 61.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael was a good friend and very kind man.\u00a0 A dedicated hispanophile who lived in Andalucia, he wrote many books about both Spain and South America.\u00a0 For my money his very best was his last, <i>The Robber of Memories<\/i>, a quite magical account of travelling down the Magdalena river in Colombia.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?page_id=2043\" target=\"_blank\">I reviewed it when it came out last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Subtle and precise, it may well be Jacobs\u2019 finest work after a lifetime of studying the Hispanic world. This is travel writing at its best, with the memories a country creates about itself weaving with those of the author for a journey that pulses with an elegiac, penumbral light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My daughter Daisy also interviewed him for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/theisis\/docs\/isis_magazine_trinity_2013_e3308c9f795fb6\" target=\"_blank\">Isis Magazine <\/a><\/i>at Oxford and ended her piece by saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;For Jacob, travelling creates memory and it is these memories that keep us alive and moving forwards.\u00a0 As Jacobs says, \u2018It is our memories that sustain us in later life.\u2019 &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He will be much missed.<\/p>\n<p>PS FEBRUARY &#8211; since this was written, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/michael-jacobs-art-historian-and-hispanophile-who-changed-direction-to-become-a-funny-idiosyncratic-and-acclaimed-travel-writer-9107577.html\" target=\"_blank\">a fine obituary has appeared in the <em>Independent<\/em> by Barnaby Rogerson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deeply saddened by news of Michael Jacobs\u2019 sudden death a few days ago, from cancer of the kidney which was only diagnosed in September.\u00a0 He was 61. Michael was a good friend and very kind man.\u00a0 A dedicated hispanophile who lived in Andalucia, he wrote many books about both Spain and South America.\u00a0 For my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}