Western Europe category: 1822 books
by Brian Anderson, Eileen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Here is a touch of Europe which enjoys 3,000 hours annually of Mediterranean-bright sun, some of the most beautiful and scenic beaches imaginable and a flavour of Africa after centuries of Moorish occupation. The beaches alone are such a draw that the wealth of interest in the inland towns and villages...
by Ceeney Way Dodson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Part memoir, part travelog, this book is an entertaining look at life on the road, exploring the nooks and crannies of Europe. With their low budget, practical approach to independent travel, this couple from Kentucky have taken 13 trips, crisscrossing the Continent in 8 different camper vans. They...
by Steve Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The ancient cathedral city of York has a history that dates back to before Roman times. It is situated in Yorkshire and has some of the best preserved historical buildings and structures in Europe. York was known as Eboracum by the Romans, who founded the fortress city on the River Ouse in the year...
Edinburgh & Glasgow Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Edinburgh, Scotland is one of Europe’s most breathtaking cities. With beautiful architecture, the city’s Old Town has ancient, labyrinthine cobbled streets and small alleyways. On the other hand, New Town has a happening shopping and nighttime entertainment scene. Edinburgh attracts four million...
by Bouko de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The 80 Years' War (also known as the Dutch War of Independence) was the foundation of Dutch nationhood, and during the course of the conflict one of its main leaders – Maurice of Orange-Nassau – created an army and a tactical system that became a model throughout Europe.
This study, the first...
Fire and Blood
The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes
Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on...
Wondrous Beauty
The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), here is the remarkable life of...
From Slave Trade to Empire
European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and...
How the Workers Became Muslims
Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Writing in the beginning of the 1980s, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe explored possibilities for a new socialist strategy to capitalize on the period’s fragmented political and social conditions. Two and a half decades later, Ferruh Yilmaz acknowledges that the populist Far Right—not the socialist...
by Richard Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The jetsetter’s paradise of Marbella is located in the province of Andalusia in the Costa del Sol region of southern Spain. It is one of Europe’s most well known resorts for the rich and famous to “see and be seen” but this sunny city can be enjoyed by the more budget-conscious vacationer...
by Melissa McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Salzburg, Austria. Salzburg is a beautiful city located in central Austria, near the German (Bavarian) border with a population of some 148,000. If you have seen the movie The Sound of Music, you will be familiar with Salzburg as much of the movie was...
Kos & Lefkada Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
One breath of fresh air will endear you to the beautiful Greek island of Kos. The island was the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of medicine and has been devoted to the science of healing for millennia. The hot spring at Therma beach is believed to have a therapeutic effect on muscle pain and...
by Nathan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Budapest, Hungary.
by Lonely Planet, Marc Di Duca
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Pocket Madeira is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Admire Se cathedral, wander awe-struck through Quinta das Cruzes Museum and Museu de...