Europe category: 12800 books
Off the Road
A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom.
Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration of...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain (James Garner) is invited as the keynote speaker for the Bryn Mawr College graduation ceremonies of 1891. At first concerned that his reputation as a humorist will embarrass...
Absolute Power
The Real Lives of Europe’s Most Infamous Rulers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
Here, 75 succinct essays cover European royalty from the last king of Rome to Tsar Nicholas II. There is an enduring public interest in royalty and dictatorial rulers: this book covers all of them comprehensively. Far more than just sensational accounts, the book makes a genuine attempt to understand...
The Uskoks of Senj
Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based...
To The Hebrides
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These...
by Vincent McDonnell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The sinking of the Titanic is the world’s most famous sea tragedy, with over 1,500 lives lost on that cold April night in 1912. The ship has since held a special mystery and fascination for young and old. This new account for children looks at why the ship was built and the dreams of those who built...
by Bob Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Culture Briefing: Hungary provides current, in-depth information found in no other single publication to help you understand the Hungarian way of life. Whether visiting Hungary, working on a class paper or doing business with the Hungarians, you'll find Culture Briefing: Hungary an invaluable...
Sicily
An Island at the Crossroads of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history.
“Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone...
Endgame
The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Powerful… definitive… Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded.” —The Washington Post
In 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor named David Rohde uncovered a horrifying story that became an...
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Rollo in Rome by the American writer of children's books,Jacob Abbott.He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science.His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe,...
The Race to the New World
Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The final decade of the fifteenth century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian...
Rome
A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting...
Rebel in the Ranks
Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as the sole authority for Christian faith, radicalizing a continent,...
Armageddon
The Battle for Germany, 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain’s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy “to stand with that of the best journalists and writers” (New York Times Book Review).
In...