Europe category: 12800 books
Drinking in the Culture
Tupper's Guide to Exploring Great Beers in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Drinking In the Culture is the first ever guide to finding, not just good beer, but good beer places, to explore the local brewing cultures of Europe. Each chapter begins with an overview of the history and culture of the city—including its beers—with ideas for where to stay or eat and...
Leaving Europe
A Cross-Cultural Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2006
A unique blend of travel narrative and coming-of-age recollections, Leaving Europe traces Monique Hendricks thirty-year journey from Switzerland, where she was born, to the United States, with sojourns in England, Germany, Belgium and Iceland along the way. Each chapter follows Monique to a different...
The Liberator
One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War.
Written with Alex Kershaw's trademark narrative drive and vivid immediacy, The Liberator traces the remarkable battlefield journey of maverick U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks through the Allied liberation...
by Derek Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly altered the course of Western history.
Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: an ingenious military strategist, a wise but ruthless leader, a cunning politician, and a devout...
by Derek B. Lange
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Here, in this stirring, vivid book, historian Derek B. Lange uses The Hague as the focal point for a sweeping, panoramic history of the Netherlands. One seventeenth-century visitor called The Hague "the mightiest village in Europe" - an epithet that could still be used today to describe...
The Restoration of Rome
Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus," was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among...
The Great Sea
A Human History of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself:...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
This true and very funny story involving six colleagues, some retired, proves the saying that we never really grow up - we just learn how to behave in public.On a sudden whim six men, mostly writers, decided to embark on a 1 000 kilometre cycle ride down the River Danube believing it would...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues,...
A Time of Gifts
On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian...
Berlin Now
The City After the Wall
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe**'s most charismatic and enigmatic city**
It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona...
by Dante Mena
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
This is an excerpt from our larger guide to all of Hungary, focusing on Budapest and the surrounding area primarily. The author is a resident of Budapest, who knows the region intimately and takes us behind the scenes to discover its best features the sights, the places to stay and eat, the shopping,...
Fools Rush In
A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Offering an in-depth personal account of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian war, this autobiography follows the author as he departed for conflict-ridden Eastern Europe in the early 1990s. Demonstrating how the protagonist discovered his own love of humanity, this narrative documents his career as an aid-worker,...
Prague Pictures
Portraits of a City
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.
The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series.
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee...