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Robb, Graham, 1958-
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Robb, Graham, 1958- -- Travel -- France.
France -- History.
France -- Historical geography.
France -- Description and travel.
France -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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Robb, Graham, 1958-
Robb, Graham, 1958- -- Travel -- France.
France -- History.
France -- Historical geography.
France -- Description and travel.
France -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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France
: an adventure history / Graham Robb.
by
Robb, Graham, 1958-
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.
Call #:
944 R631f
Subjects
Robb, Graham, 1958-
--
Travel
--
France
.
France
--
History.
France
--
Historical geography.
France
--
Description and travel.
France
--
Biography
--
Anecdotes
.
ISBN:
9781324002567 (hc)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
x, 527 p., 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : ill. (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-484) and indexes.
Summary:
"A wholly original history of
France
, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion
--
by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron,
France
takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's
France
combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist with the deep understanding of a scholar. Robb's own adventures and discoveries while living, working, and traveling in
France
connect this tour through space and time with on-the-ground experience. There are scenes of wars and revolutions from the plains of Provence to the slums and boulevards of Paris. Robb conveys with wit and precision what it felt like to look over the shoulder of a young Louis XIV as he planned the vast garden of Versailles, and the dangerous thrill of having a ringside seat at the French revolution. Some of the protagonists may be familiar, but appear here in a very different light? Caesar, Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, General Charles de Gaulle. This extraordinary narrative is the fruit of decades of research and thirty thousand miles on a self-propelled, two-wheeled time machine (a bicycle). Even seasoned Francophiles will wonder if they really know that terra incognita on the edge of Europe that is currently referred to as '
France
.'"--Publisher.
Genre:
Travel writing.
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