Western Europe category: 1822 books

New updated edition, new statistics and Epilogue One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people (but only 80% of them Swiss): there's nowhere else in Europe like it. Switzerland may be almost 400 km from the nearest drop of seawater, but it is an island at the centre of Europe. Welcome...

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet Amsterdam is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Soak up centuries of artistic masterpieces, cycle through the city’s canal-woven...

Surrounded by some of Norway’s most dramatic natural beauty, Stavanger is a favorite with nature lovers. The city – voted the 2008 European Capital of Culture – is also one of the most vibrant cities in Norway for its festivals, nightlife, and culinary scene.   Table of Contents:...

(approx. 790 pages) Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground. Finding Internet...

Umea is the largest city in northern Sweden. Once just the unassuming capital of the Vasterbotten province, this university-town has recently gained international prominence after it was named as the European Capital of Culture for 2014. Umea is set in picture-postcard natural surroundings and has...

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet Pocket Amsterdam is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Soak up the artwork in the world’s greatest Van Gogh museum, explore the...

(approx. 210 pages) Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground. Finding Internet...

The “real” South of France is not just the French Riviera on the Mediterranean. On the western side of the country is the French Basque region with the Atlantic crashing onto its shores.  Here you will find beautiful resort towns including Biarritz – a favourite of Sir Winston Churchill...

Portugal’s Silver Coast (known as the Costa de Prata) stretches across the Estremadura region and features cities like Coimbra, Nazare and Obidos. The region has traditionally been a favorite holiday region among the Portuguese and is slowly being discovered by foreigners who are attracted to its...

This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. It has been prepared as part of the project of the American Battle Monuments Commission to commemorate in a complete and lasting manner the accomplishments and services of the American forces...

MICHAEL ANGELO'S great painting of the newly created Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel might be taken as a symbol of the Renaissance, of the time when man was, as it were, re-created more glorious than before, with a body naked and unashamed, and a strong arm, unimpaired by fasting, outstretched...

Nearly a decade in the making, award-winning author Dianne Ebertt Beeaffs transcending new book, Spirit Stones, explores the enduring lessons of Europes prehistoric monoliths, stone circles and burial chambers. Beeaffs fastidious research, first-hand accounts and prevailing love of history capture not...

Liberalism, in the nineteenth-century sense of the term, came to Austria much later than it came to western Europe, for it was not until the 1840s that the industrial revolution reached the Hapsburg Empire, bringing in its train miserable working conditions and economic upheaval, which created bitter...

This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international...