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“ Aux confins de l’Europe végète, asservie et malheureuse, une nation à peine connue de nom aujourd’hui, et digne cependant de tout notre intérêt. Cette nation est celle des Bulgares ; elle a conservé dans le plus dur esclavage ses vieilles mœurs, sa foi vive, son noble caractère, et,...

One hundred years ago Europe unleashed a storm of violence upon the world: The First World War had an enormous impact on the lives of Europeans, European history and culture. To this day, the iconic images of trench warfare in Belgium and France are burned onto our retinas, the names of its major...

Did you know that the only desert in Europe is located in Greece? Did you know that Greece has an exotic beach full of palm trees, or that one of the most important Neolithic Age settlements in Europe is located in northern Greece? Perhaps you would like to know which uninhabited islands are best...

Vacances insolites : Road-Trip en Europe du Sud En 15 jours, de Nice à Toulon, vous avalerez les 2500 km de ce périple sans vous en rendre compte ! Du nord de l’Italie, rejoignez rapidement la partie sud-occidentale de la Croatie. Après de somptueux paysages,...

Originally published in 1961 and written by George W. Oakes, chief travel writer for the New York Times, this beloved walking guide has sold more than 100,000 copies in several editions. Now completely revised and updated by Alexandra Chapman, this latest edition features intimate walks through twenty-one...

The fantastic beauty of the Carpathian mountains inspire travellers from all over the world. The Carpathians have preserved primeval forests, unique for the Central Europe. Their mountains are mild, free from rocky edges, with the infinite woodless areas called polonynas.  The Western Ukraine...

The Iron Curtain did not exist—at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historical and cultural forces for decades, if not centuries....

Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680) was the daughter of the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. A princess born into one of the most prominent Protestant dynasties of the age, Elisabeth was one of the great...

Inspired by recent works on Nazi empire, this book provides a framework to guide occupation research with a broad comparative angle focusing on human interactions. Overcoming national compartmentalization, it examines Nazi occupations with attention to relations between occupiers and local populations...

I wrote this little non-fiction journal style book from a notebook I kept in 1972 during a trip a girlhood friend and I took to Europe at that time. The itinerary was loosely based on the Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises so yes there is drinking in Paris cafes, no money, a wild drive from Paris...

Early in October 1832, a travelling-carriage stopped on the summit of that long descent where the road pitches from the elevated plain of Moudon in Switzerland to the level of the lake of Geneva, immediately above the little city of Vévey. The postilion had dismounted to chain a wheel, and the halt...

Slovenia is a diverse and varied country, with some of Europe's most pristine and dramatic landscapes. From its friendly capital city, Ljubljana, to its snowcapped mountains, azure lakes, dense forests and fragment of jagged coastline, Slovenia has much to offer. The new edition of Insight Pocket...

In the year 476 an unfortunate young man, mocked with the great names of the founders of the City and of the Empire, Romulus Augustus, nicknamed Augustulus, was deposed from the throne of the Cæsars by a Barbarian general in the Imperial service, and the Roman Empire in Italy came to its end. This...

In *Sojourn: Volume Eight *of this existential and addictive real-life series, McDonnell travels to Western Europe for two months, loses a close family friend, and grapples with the meaning of creativity and life purpose. This is a deep dive in to the nature of existence, physicality, addiction,...