The Discovery Of France

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• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 9,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2008-10-17
• Total pages : 480
• ISBN : 039306882X
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Download The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

"A witty, engaging narrative style…[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing." —New York Times Book Review A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language. Graham Robb describes that unknown world in arresting narrative detail. He recounts the epic journeys of mapmakers, scientists, soldiers, administrators, and intrepid tourists, of itinerant workers, pilgrims, and herdsmen with their millions of migratory domestic animals. We learn how France was explored, charted, and colonized, and how the imperial influence of Paris was gradually extended throughout a kingdom of isolated towns and villages. The Discovery of France explains how the modern nation came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France—past and present—remains to be discovered. A New York Times Notable Book, Publishers Weekly Best Book, Slate Best Book, and Booklist Editor's Choice.

• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : Picador
• File Size : 17,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2007-11-01
• Total pages : 480
• ISBN : 9781743293683
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"This is a vivid and indispensable book, so full of unexpected and wittily related treasures..." Daily Telegraph It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of the Revolution - Madame Defarge knitting beside the guillotine - and Napoleon's battle at Waterloo (mis)remembered from school history lessons; a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. Despite this, however, the notion of "the French" as one nation is relatively recent and - historically speaking - quite misleading; in order to discover the "real" past of France, it's not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a slower pace than modern life generally allows: this book is the result of 14,000 miles covered by bicycle (and four years spent in the library). It is - at last - a book which tells the whole story. PRAISE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF FRANCE "Captivatingly full of the author's own discoveries - exotic landscapes, weird customs, remarkable individuals and events overlooked by history" Guardian "A revealing biography of ordinary French citizens and a portrait of the world beyond Paris and the urban elite." Time Out "Superlative history of la France profonde" Sunday Times, 100 best holiday reads

• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• File Size : 29,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2008
• Total pages : 500
• ISBN : 033042761X
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A narrative of exploration, this historical geography explains how the modern nation of France came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France--past and present--remains to be discovered. Illustrated.

• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 21,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2008-10-17
• Total pages : 476
• ISBN : 9780393333640
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Download The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

An exploration of France's rural landscapes and inhabitants celebrates the country's ancient tribes, networks, and religions, revealing how France was explored, charted, and colonized outside of regions under imperial influence.

• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-11-04
• Total pages : 448
• ISBN : 9780393241358
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Download The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization. While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world—a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional “Middle Earth” of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document. Robb—“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet” (New York Times)—here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and recharts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe.

• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2022-07-05
• Total pages : 468
• ISBN : 9781324002574
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Download France: An Adventure History in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

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.”

• Author : Christoph Kalter
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 52,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-09-12
• Total pages : 517
• ISBN : 9781107074514
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Download The Discovery of the Third World in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

This book explores the emergence of 'Third Worldism' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonisation and the Cold War.

• Author : Beebe Bahrami
• Publisher : Catapult
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-02-20
• Total pages : 300
• ISBN : 9781619027701
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Download Café Neandertal in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

"Award–winning writer Bahrami is a delightful guide in this thoroughly enjoyable look into the research and recovery of a group of Neandertal remains in the French Dordogne region . . . Her wide interests in travel, memoir, food, wine, and more make this exceedingly engaging title more like a French version of Under the Tuscan Sun." —Booklist (starred review) Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe’s most concentrated regions for Neandertal occupations, Café Neandertal features the work of archaeologists doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date on the research, exploration, and recovery of our ancient ancestors, shedding a surprising light on what it means to be human.

• Author : Glynis Ridley
• Publisher : Crown
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2011-12-06
• Total pages : 314
• ISBN : 9780307463531
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Download The Discovery of Jeanne Baret in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire. Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s young mistress and collaborator, was desperate not to be left behind. She disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. The journey made the twenty-six-year-old, known to her shipmates as “Jean” rather than “Jeanne,” the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose accomplishments were considered to be subversive, even impossible for someone of her sex and class. When the ships made landfall and the secret lovers disembarked to explore, Baret carried heavy wooden field presses and bulky optical instruments over beaches and hills, impressing observers on the ships’ decks with her obvious strength and stamina. Less obvious were the strips of linen wound tight around her upper body and the months she had spent perfecting her masculine disguise in the streets and marketplaces of Paris. Expedition commander Louis-Antoine de Bougainville recorded in his journal that curious Tahitian natives exposed Baret as a woman, eighteen months into the voyage. But the true story, it turns out, is more complicated. In The Discovery of Jeanne Baret, Glynis Ridley unravels the conflicting accounts recorded by Baret’s crewmates to piece together the real story: how Baret’s identity was in fact widely suspected within just a couple of weeks of embarking, and the painful consequences of those suspicions; the newly discovered notebook, written in Baret’s own hand, that proves her scientific acumen; and the thousands of specimens she collected, most famously the showy vine bougainvillea. Ridley also richly explores Baret’s awkward, sometimes dangerous interactions with the men on the ship, including Baret’s lover, the obsessive and sometimes prickly naturalist; a fashion-plate prince who, with his elaborate wigs and velvet garments, was often mistaken for a woman himself; the sour ship’s surgeon, who despised Baret and Commerson; even a Tahitian islander who joined the expedition and asked Baret to show him how to behave like a Frenchman. But the central character of this true story is Jeanne Baret herself, a working-class woman whose scientific contributions were quietly dismissed and written out of history—until now. Anchored in impeccable original research and bursting with unforgettable characters and exotic settings, The Discovery of Jeanne Baret offers this forgotten heroine a chance to bloom at long last.

• Author : Caro Feely
• Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD
• File Size : 32,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-10-01
• Total pages : 187
• ISBN : 9780857657152
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Filled with vivid descriptions of delicious wines, great food, and stunning views, this is a unique insight into the world of the winemaker, and a story of passion, dedication, and loveWhen Caro and Sean find the perfect 10-hectare vineyard in Saussignac, it seems like their dreams of becoming winemakers in the south of France are about to come true. But they arrive in France with their young family (a toddler and a newborn) to be faced with a dilapidated 18th-century farmhouse and an enterprise that may never, ever make them a living. Undeterred by mouse infestations, a leaking roof, treacherous hordes of insects, visits from the local farm "police," and a nasty accident with an agricultural trimmer, Caro and Sean set about transforming their "beyond eccentric" winery into a successful business as they embark on the biggest adventure of their lives—learning to make wine from the roots up.

• Author : Patrick Boucheron,Stéphane Gerson
• Publisher : Other Press, LLC
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-04-09
• Total pages : 980
• ISBN : 9781590519424
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Download France in the World in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as a place and an idea in flux, moving beyond all borders and frontiers, shaped by exchanges and mixtures. Presented in chronological order from 34,000 BC to 2015, each chapter covers a significant year from its own particular angle--the marriage of a Viking leader to a Carolingian princess proposed by Charles the Fat in 882, the Persian embassy's reception at the court of Louis XIV in 1715, the Chilean coup d'état against President Salvador Allende in 1973 that mobilized a generation of French left-wing activists. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. With a brand-new preface aimed at an international audience, this English-language edition will be an essential resource for Francophiles and scholars alike.

• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• File Size : 19,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-10-10
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 9781447240495
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Download The Ancient Paths in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extraordinary: a lost map, of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. The map had been forgotten for almost two millennia and its implications were astonishing. Minutely researched and rich in revelations, The Ancient Paths brings to life centuries of our distant history and reinterprets pre-Roman Europe. Told with all of Robb's grace and verve, it is a dazzling, unforgettable book.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Sterling
• File Size : 44,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2000
• Total pages : 0
• ISBN : 0688174388
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Download The Heart of France in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

La belle France comes into beautiful focus as you gaze upon its most chic boutiques, charming inns, incomparably delectable restaurants, and everything else the country has to offer. Filled with information on where to go and what to do, this insider's guide is as practical as it is dazzling.

• Author : Graham Robb
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2016
• Total pages : 504
• ISBN : 9781509803484
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Download The Discovery of France in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively recent and -- historically speaking -- quite misleading. In order to discover the 'real' past of France, Graham Robb realised it was not only necessary to go back in time, but also to go at a slower pace than modern life generally allows. The Discovery of France, illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, is the result of Robb's 14,000 mile journey across France on a bicycle. A modern non-fiction classic, a literary exploration of a remarkable nation. From maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it reveals a France few will recognise.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Laissez Faire Books
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2023
• Total pages : 229
• ISBN : 9781621290117
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Download The Discovery of Freedom in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

PDF book entitled The Discovery of Freedom written by Anonim and published by Laissez Faire Books which was released on 2023 with total hardcover pages 229, the book become popular and critical acclaim.