Western Europe category: 1822 books
by Shannon Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Have you ever done a tour of Europe? Or wanted to be a tour manager? Come along for the ride with Shannon Meadows in this tell-all account of the start of her first season on the road, leading 18-35 coach tours in Europe. Along the way she encounters back stabbers, kleptomaniacs, nudists, thieving gypsies, bed-hopping casanovas and more.
by Rigby Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2011
Dancing Bare is an amusing, thoughtful and informative tale about Rigby, an impossibly innocent young man who swaps the suffocating confines of middle class New Zealand for love and liberation in nineteen-sixties London and Europe. Revelling in the freedom conferred by anonymity, he becomes an actor,...
Austria & Budapest Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
The Federal Republic of Austria is a culturally impressive European country with a rich past and offers an incredibly rich experience for the tourist. Vienna and Salzburg are Austria’s architectural gems while Innsbruck stands out for its medieval appeal and as a reminder of ancient times. Austria...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Marwick Prague 'little mother Prague' - was largely undamaged by WWII, and its urban landscape is truly stunning. The compact medieval centre was preserved as evocative maze of cobbled lanes, ancient courtyards, dark alleys and numerous churches located under the strict "look" of the 1100-year-old...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Civilians and War in Europe 1618-1815 examines the relationship between civilians and warfare from the start of the Thirty Years War to the end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The volume interrogates received narratives of warfare that identify the development of modern 'total' war with...
by Geoffrey Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as 'modern' began to take shape.
Discussing key...
by Shawn Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, is located on seven hills near the Tejo River. In spite of the hilly terrain, the city can be easily explored on foot. Lisbon has a good transportation system, which includes hill elevators known as “funiculars”. The longest bridge in Europe and some of the...
Alpine Cooking
Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among the alpine peaks of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France.
From the wintry peaks of Chamonix...
Copenhagen & Hamburg Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark and is a "friendly old girl of a town." Located on the Øresund strait, the city is close to Sweden and offers good shopping, culture and nightlife. Copenhagen acts as a link between mainland Europe and Scandinavia and has impressive new buildings,...
What You Need to Know Before You Travel to Amsterdam
Amsterdam Traveler’s Guide to Make the Most Out of Your Trip
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Chances are, you’ve heard one or two things about Amsterdam already: seventeenth century buildings and readily available hash, the Van Gogh gallery and erotic museums, a laid back atmosphere and a liberal tolerance, eccentrics and slick business types; Amsterdam blends history and urban flair unlike...
The Identitarians
The Movement against Globalism and Islam in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The Identitarians are a quickly growing ethnocultural transnational movement that, in diverse forms, originated in France and Italy and has spread into southern, central, and northern Europe. This timely and important study presents the first book-length analysis of this anti-globalist and anti-Islamic...
Islam without Europe
Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund,...
Heretics and Heroes
How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book.
In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us...
Passchendaele
Requiem for Doomed Youth
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes,...