Europe category: 12800 books
by Philip Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Ebook edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of...
by Andrew Eames
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history...
Walking the Woods and the Water
In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar . The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken...
by Caroline Gilby, MW
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Eastern Europe is the last undiscovered gem of the wine world. Over the last thirty years three countries, Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova have been working hard to escape the legacy of communism. For all three the regimes that took hold after the Second World War affected their wine industries profoundly,...
Traveling Paris
A Complete Travel Guide to the Finest Vacation Getaway in Europe’s 2nd Largest City
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Paris – the city is well-known for historic monuments, remarkable museums, world-class restaurants, trendy fashions and the famous metropolitan panorama.
Superb French food, big-name fashion brands for shopping, monuments, hotels, churches, fountains, bridges and canals that light up Paris...
Prague Travel Guide
The Ultimate Prague, Czech Republic Tourist Trip Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The great city of Europe, which is the second largest of the continent and is one of the best looking cities with outstanding beauties and some decent towers. The city of Prague has the best looking features and that is the reason why most of travelers, who are travelling through Europe, never miss...
Bonjour! Is this Italy?
A Hapless Biker’s Guide to Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Bonjour! Is this Italy? offers a unique and often hilarious insight into the challenges and excitement afforded by a lone motorcycle journey though Europe. In his quest to escape the frantic nature of London life, Kevin Turner heads south across France, crossing the Alps into Italy, and onto Rome, before...
Rescue Board
The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board,...
by Tristan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The sailor-author navigates his famous yacht, Outward Leg, across the rivers of Europe in this travel memoir that’s “vintage Tristan Jones” (Publishers Weekly).
The Improbable Voyage is the account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing...
A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud...
by Keith Mashiter
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Keith’s wife Gail is looking forward to travelling the world and staying in comfortable hotels when Keith takes early retirement from his high-pressure job. But he has a shock in store for her. He unexpectedly decides to buy a huge American Winnebago-type motorhome (RV), tow a car behind ‘so...
by Joseph Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
As Joseph Pearson poetically puts it in this rich look at one of Europe’s most fascinating cities: Berlin is a party in a graveyard. Europe’s youth capital, Berlin is also beset by sustained guilt for the atrocities that were ordered by its Nazi officers during the Third Reich. Built and rebuilt...
by Martyn Rady
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain. Through the Spanish connection, they acquired lands around the Mediterranean and a chunk of the New World,...
by Michael Pye
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
*A New York Times Notable Book*
An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea.
Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals:...