Parisians
(Sprache: Englisch)
Explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of The Discovery of France
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Explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of The Discovery of France
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No-one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Parisians introduces us to some of those inhabitants: we meet spies, soldiers, scientists and alchemists; police commissioners, photographers and philosophers; adulterers, murderers, prisoners and prostitutes. We encounter political and sexual intrigues, witness real and would-be revolutions, assassination attempts and several all too successful executions; we visit underground caverns and catacombs, enjoy the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower, are there for the opening of the Metro, accompany Hitler on a flying visit to the French capital - and much more besides.Entertaining and illuminating, and written with Graham Robb's customary attention to detail - and, indeed, the unusual - Parisians is both history and travel guide, yet also part memoir, part mystery. A book unlike any other, it is at oncea book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.Praise for The Discovery of France :'An extraordinary journey of discovery that will delight even the most indolent armchair traveller' Daily Telegraph'A superior historical guidebook for the unhurried traveller, and altogether a book to savour' IndependentBibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Graham Robb
- 2010, Main Market Ed., XI, 475 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 0330452444
- ISBN-13: 9780330452441
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Englisch
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