Parisians
An Adventure History of Paris
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2010
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UK airside ed
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-52219-9 (ISBN)
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-52219-9 (ISBN)
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Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, this title is both history and travel guide, yet also part memoir, and part mystery. It introduces us to some of the inhabitants in Paris: some famous, some not - and some infamous.
This title lets you explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of "The Discovery of France". No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's "Parisians" introduces us to some of those inhabitants: some famous, some not - and some infamous. Entertaining and illuminating, and written with Graham Robb's customary attention to detail - and, indeed, the unusual - "Parisians" is both history and travel guide, yet also part memoir, part mystery. A book unlike any other, it is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.
This title lets you explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of "The Discovery of France". No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's "Parisians" introduces us to some of those inhabitants: some famous, some not - and some infamous. Entertaining and illuminating, and written with Graham Robb's customary attention to detail - and, indeed, the unusual - "Parisians" is both history and travel guide, yet also part memoir, part mystery. A book unlike any other, it is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history, and his most recent book, The Discovery of France (2007), won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.9.2010 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-330-52219-1 / 0330522191 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-330-52219-9 / 9780330522199 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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