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Geert Mak
The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared…
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How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?
From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our…
Istanbul’s Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a…
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Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica.
The village as we have known it for centuries must adapt to survive, but what will be lost in the process? In this book the author returns to the small…
Tracing the history of Europe, the author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This work is an account of that journey, including diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the…
In 1999, Geert Mak spent a year criss-crossing Europe, looking to define the continent on the verge of a new millennium.
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In this examination of Amsterdam’s soul, part history, part travel guide, the Dutch writer Geert Mak depicts the lives of the early Amsterdammers and traces the city’s progress from a…
In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to…
