Eccentric France

Author : Piers Letcher
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1841620688

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Eccentric France by Piers Letcher Pdf

So you think eccentric France means frogs' legs and pigs' trotters? Think again. Piers Letcher takes you to places where you can feast on forgotten vegetables, saddle up for national donkey day, or gorge yourself at the world tripe championships. He also reveals the truth behind France's most colorful characters, including Coco Chanel, Joan of Arc, Mata Hari and the Marquis de Sade. This latest addition to the Bradt eccentric series makes fascinating reading for those looking to discover the hidden side of France, as well as for armchair travelers who delight in the extraordinary. Feeling adventures? Try your hand at pig-squealing, or brave the Rhone Valley's Crocodile Farm; Romantic? Visit the Lovers' Wall in Montmartre, or Provence's hidden Paradise; Festive? Indulge yourself at the Palais du chocolat, or take a Champagne cure; Or just plain curious? Check out the country's most unusual towns, gardens, hotels and restaurants.

Author : Benedict Le Vay
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 184162098X

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Eccentric Edinburgh by Benedict Le Vay Pdf

"You don't just visit Edinburgh; you fall in love with the place." The best-selling author of Eccentric Britain takes you away from the obvious tartanalia and into Auld Reekie's hidden corners to find spooky stories, weird buildings, mad judges and strange customs. Benedict le Vay also asks the pressing questions that others avoid: Is the Scottish Parliament a monumental cock-up? Was the Stewart dynasty really useless? Should you eat deep-fried Mars Bars...?

Author : Benedict Le Vay
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1841621935

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Eccentric London by Benedict Le Vay Pdf

Benedict le Vay reveals London's most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city.

Author : Benedict Le Vay
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1841621226

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Eccentric Britain by Benedict Le Vay Pdf

A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.

Author : Edward Berenson,Eva Giloi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857458155

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Constructing Charisma by Edward Berenson,Eva Giloi Pdf

Railroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass periodicals--the major technological advances of the 19th century seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another, creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon more evident than in the relationship between celebrity and fan, leader and follower, the famous and the unknown. By mid-century, heroes and celebrities constituted a new and powerful social force, as innovations in print and visual media made it possible for ordinary people to identify with the famous; to feel they knew the hero, leader, or "star"; to imagine that public figures belonged to their private lives. This volume examines the origins and nature of modern mass media and the culture of celebrity and fame they helped to create. Crossing disciplines and national boundaries, the book focuses on arts celebrities (Sarah Bernhardt, Byron and Liszt); charismatic political figures (Napoleon and Wilhelm II); famous explorers (Stanley and Brazza); and celebrated fictional characters (Cyrano de Bergerac).

Author : Diana Darke
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781841623146

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Syria by Diana Darke Pdf

Travel and holiday.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UVA:X030516421

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Annual Report on the Commercial Relations Between the United States and Foreign Nations, Made by the Secretary of State, for the Year Ending ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ross Velton,Jolijn Geels
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1841620777

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Mali by Ross Velton,Jolijn Geels Pdf

A second edition of the first English-language travel guide to Mali, full of practical information and cultural background for the independent traveler.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : North American review and miscellaneous journal
ISBN : CHI:17436845

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The North American Review by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Author : Samuel Maunder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Biography
ISBN : MINN:31951P00240316E

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The Biographical Treasury by Samuel Maunder Pdf

Author : Peter Schulman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056181970

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The Sunday of Fiction by Peter Schulman Pdf

Also, whereas to date the study of eccentricity has focused primarily on literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this work completes prior criticism by including twentieth-century authors such as Raymond Queneau, Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Georges Perec, and filmmakers such as Jacques Tati and Pierre Etaix."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190083342

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Hybrid Hate by Tudor Parfitt Pdf

Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt investigates the development of antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and race theory in the West from the Renaissance to the Second World War. Parfitt explains how Jews were often perceived as Black in medieval Europe, and the conflation of Jews and Blacks continued throughout the period of the Enlightenment. With the discovery of a community of Black Jews in Loango in West Africa in 1777, and later of Black Jews in India, the Middle East, and other parts of Africa, the notion of multiracial Jews was born. Over the following centuries, the figure of the hybrid Black Jew was drawn into the maelstrom of evolving theories about race hierarchies and taxonomies. Parfitt analyses how Jews and Blacks were increasingly conflated in a racist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the period of the Third Reich, as the two fundamental prejudices of the West were combined. Hybrid Hate offers a new interpretation of the rise of antisemitism and anti-Black racism in Europe, and casts light on contemporary racist discourses in the United States and Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Arts
ISBN : IND:30000153147602

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The Athenaeum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Piu Marie Eatwell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781250087744

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F Is for France by Piu Marie Eatwell Pdf

Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage. From absinthe and catacombs to former French soccer player Zinedine Zidane, Eatwell leaves no stone unturned, taking readers off the beaten path to explore the kind of information that gets missed in guidebooks and 'official' information sources. Who could imagine, for example, that there is a village in France where UFOs are banned from landing? Or that there is a verifiable population of wild kangaroos in the forests surrounding Paris? These, and many other off-beat delights, are just some of the curiosities awaiting readers in this journey through byways and hidden treasures of this endlessly fascinating and paradoxical country. Full of the richness and variety of France beyond the platitudes, including recipes and charming illustrations, F is for France is an ideal gift book and a must-read for Francophiles and anyone with an interest in French travel and culture.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871407085

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Paris France by Gertrude Stein Pdf

Matched only by Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a "fresh and sagacious" (The New Yorker) classic of prewar France and its unforgettable literary eminences. Celebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, never again to return to her native America. While in Paris, she not only surrounded herself with—and tirelessly championed the careers of—a remarkable group of young expatriate artists but also solidified herself as "one of the most controversial figures of American letters" (New York Times). In Paris France (1940)—published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik—Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a bygone era, one on the brink of revolutionary change.