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<p><b>Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction</b><br><br><b>'Funny, erudite, frequen...
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<p><b>Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction</b><br><br><b>'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' – Sarah Bakewell, <i>Financial Times </i></b><br><br><b>'An excellent, rich and amusing read' – <i>The Times</i>, Book of the Week</b><br><br>For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family.
An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off – through luck, guile and sheer mulishness – any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere – indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them.<br><br><i>Danubia </i>plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village.
Full of music, piracy, religion and fighting, it is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna.<br><br><b>Joining <i>Germania</i> and <i>Lotharingia</i> in Simon Winder's endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, <i>Danubia </i>is a hilarious, eccentric and witty saga.</b></p>
An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off – through luck, guile and sheer mulishness – any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere – indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them.<br><br><i>Danubia </i>plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village.
Full of music, piracy, religion and fighting, it is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna.<br><br><b>Joining <i>Germania</i> and <i>Lotharingia</i> in Simon Winder's endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, <i>Danubia </i>is a hilarious, eccentric and witty saga.</b></p>
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 576 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Pan Macmillan |
Utgivningsdatum | 2020-02-20 |
ISBN | 9781529026160 |
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- Häftad, 576, Engelska, Pan Macmillan, 2020-02-20, 9781529026160
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- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 576
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Pan Macmillan
- Utgivningsdatum 2020-02-20
- ISBN 9781529026160