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The Discovery of France
Door Graham Robb
| Categorie | Geschiedenis Europa |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #409283 |
| Titel | The Discovery of France |
| Auteur | Robb, Graham |
| Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
| Uitgeverij | London : Picador |
| Jaar van uitgave | 2007 |
| ISBN10 | 0330427601 |
| ISBN13 | 9780330427609 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of the Revolution -- Madame Defarge knitting beside the guillotine -- and Napoleon's battle at Waterloo (mis)remembered from school history lessons; a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. Despite this, however, the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively recent and -- historically speaking -- quite misleading; in order to discover the 'real' past of France, it's not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a slower pace than modern life generally allows: this book is the result of 14,000 miles covered by bicycle (and four years spent in the library). It is -- at last -- a book which tells the whole story. Praise for Robb's last novel, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century: ‘Funny, enterprisingly researched, and undertaken with few apparent preconceptions . . This is an excellent, amusing, decent book, which covers an enormous amount of ground in a little space’ Philp Hensher, Spectator ‘A fascinating study of a complex subject, written with humanity, sceptical intelligence and an impressive command of the sources’ Daily Telegraph ‘A fascinating mix of personal testimony and judiciously filleted history’ The Times |
| Pagina's | 454 |
| Conditie | Goed |
| Prijs | € 12,50 |
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