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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 399 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
Description
Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese course in the Loire Valley. Contemplate the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer's defense of foie gras. With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, this samples a variety of cultures like no guidebook could portray. From the air, viewers see the architecture of Vienna, the coastline of the Cote d'Azur, the monuments of Rome, and a foggy view of London. Ground footage brings audiences a view of Amsterdam's bicycle culture and winding canals and Prague's Old Town Square.
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"In 1784, travel wrenched Thomas Jefferson out of the darkest period of his life. He sailed to France a broken man, but on the road, he rediscovered a world of hidden beauty and penned a guide he called "Hints for Americans Traveling in Europe." During a crisis of his own, Derek Baxter dares himself to follow Jefferson's route. On a series of journeys (piloting a Dutch canal boat, hiking the French Alps, and fishing in the Atlantic), Baxter follows...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xi, 321 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
The author presents a chronicle of his journey, at the age of 18, on foot across central Europe, through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire, up the Rhine, and down to the Danube, capturing an unrecoverable time in Europe before the devastation of World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Timothy Gandy has kept his lifetime's ambition secret for forty years. Now, suddenly (if tragically) released from the hen-pecked tedium of his ordinary existence, he is unexpectedly free to realize his dreams. He will embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, following in the footsteps of the aristocrats of the eighteenth century. He anticipates high art, culture and pleasant weather. He never expected to encounter new friendships - and possibly even love...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a Russian carriage and set out to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during...
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