Europe category: 12800 books

(approx. 200 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...

Jane Tylus’s Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys...

Located at the epicentre of modern Europe's most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From nineteenth-century authors recording the city's dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 and the modernist intellectuals...

On August 24, 79 AD, the city of Pompeii in Southern Italy was destroyed as a result of a massive volcanic eruption from nearby Mount Vesuvius. An estimated 16,000 people were killed as a result of the eruption, whether from poisonous gases, the lava, or the ash that blanketed the city. For nearly...

Meander through Provence in the company of Henry James with this vivid collection of travel writing taken from his little-known book A Little Tour in France In 1882, a year after the publication of his wildly successful The Portrait of a Lady, which dealt with the difficulties faced by American...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Siena, Italy.

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Pisa in Tuscany, Italy.  

Introduction The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci in the religion of Santa Maria della Grazie is arguably the best painting of the Renaissance, capturing the remarkable second at which Jesus divulges one of his adherents will certainly uncover him. It's so realistic that you can picture...

Porto is one of the last undiscovered European metropolises, but that is about to change. There are now direct flights from New York and numerous connections to and from the rest of Europe, including an increasing number of low-cost airlines. But this is not a new city. It is an ancient port steeped...

The lovely holiday town of Sorrento has beautiful architecture and a scenic main square with quaint cafes, restaurants and shops. On the Circumvesuviana rail line it can be easily reached from Naples. It is also an ideal base for visiting Pompeii, Herculaneum and the island of Capri.   On...

The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as...

It is extraordinary enough that one small area in north-eastern France, on the northern edge of Europe’s wine-growing regions, should be capable of producing the finest sparkling wine in the world, one of the few worth discussing as a wine and not merely as a sparkling beverage. Yet champagne fascinates...

Why should you bother your child about history? Europe’s history has been riddled by wars and revolutions. They are sad stories for kids but they are stories that teach your little ones about how the past influenced the present. Allowing your child to study history is important because it gives your child a sense of belongingness and a certain connection to the heroes of the past.

#1 Bestseller in the U.K. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand. On...