Download or read book A Traveller s History of France written by Robert Cole and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes the reader from the first conquests of ancient Gaul through the Renaissance, the turmoil and triumph of the French Revolution, and on through the 20th century of French history, right up to the present day.
Download or read book A Traveller s History of France written by Robert Cole and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of travellers visit France each year. The glories of the French countryside, the essential harmony of French architecture, the wealth of historical relics, the myriad of cultural opportunities – all make the country a perennial and irresistible attraction. A Traveller's History of France takes the reader from the first conquests of ancient Gaul through the Renaissance, the turmoil and triumph of the French Revolution, and on through the 20th century of French history all the way to the present.
Download or read book A Traveller s History of Paris written by Robert Cole and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with facts, anecdotes, and insight, "A Traveller's History of Paris" offers a complete history of the city and the people who have shaped its destiny. Illustrated with line drawings and historical maps.
Download or read book A Traveller s History of France written by Robert Cole and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Undoubtedly the best way to prepare for a trip to France . . . [it] is concise and gives the essential facts in a very readable form."--"The Independent" (London) "France comes alive in the pages of this book, helping transform the tourist into a traveler. . . . Cole transports the reader back through Frances long and tumultuous history in a manner which keeps one engrossed in the unfolding tale."
Download or read book A Traveller s History of Paris written by Robert Cole and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travelers Tales France written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2002 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly designed edition, acclaimed writers who have fallen in love with France--with the food, the land, the irrepressible French people--provide a mesmerizing literary tour of this special place. maps. Illustrations.
Download or read book The Cambridge Illustrated History of France written by Colin Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millennium. Colin Jones offers not only an expert's account of political, social and cultural developments, but also a fresh and full interpretation of French history. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France places an innovatory emphasis on the importance of issues of regionalism, class, gender and race in the French heritage. Ranging across social, political, geographical and cultural lines - from prehistoric menhirs to the Pompidou Centre, from Louis XIV's Versailles to twentieth-century high-rises, from Marie Antoinette to Marie Claire - the author provides a host of lively and penetrating new insights into the shaping of the modern nation.
Download or read book A Traveller s History of France written by Robert Cole and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes the reader from the first conquests of ancient Gaul through the Renaissance, the turmoil and triumph of the French Revolution, and on through the 20th century of French history, right up to the present day.
Download or read book Paris To the Past written by Ina Caro and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—Newsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. “[An] enchanting travelogue” (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.
Download or read book A Traveller s History written by Michael Starks and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Traveller s History of the Hundred Years War in France written by Michael Starks and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique book that acts both as a history & a guide to the sites, battlefields & siege towns that still remain from this tragic & stirring period in French & English medieval history. Many people remember the famous English victories at the battles of Crecy & Agincourt & the rousing speeches in Shakespeare's Henry V,Ó & others are fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc. This book explains how the conflict began, how the tangled dynasties of France & England led to the years of clashing over French territory, & where & how the skirmishes & battles were fought. Includes: visitor's information; complete & concise history; fact boxes on what the modern tourist can visit & see today; maps & color photographs; & chronology.
Download or read book Travellers History Paris written by Robert Cole and published by Chastleton Travel. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, in many people’s thoughts, is the epitome of the perfect city: beautiful, romantic and imbued with vitality and culture. It is a wonderful place to visit and to live. A ‘pride of place’ mentality has characterised Parisians for centuries: ‘to be in Paris, is to be enthused’, an anonymous correspondent wrote in 1323. Packed with fact, anecdote and insight, A Travelleri´s History of Paris, offers a complete history of the city and the people who have shaped its destiny, from its earliest settlement as a Roman village with a few hundred inhabit- ants, to twenty centuries later when Paris is a city of well of over two million, at the centre of a conurbation that exceeds 12 million, nearly one-fifth of the population of France.
Download or read book Le Road Trip written by Vivian Swift and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces an idyllic French honeymoon trip while sharing lighthearted tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveler, in a book with hundreds of watercolor and line illustrations.
Download or read book A Traveller s History of the Hundred Years War in Peace written by Michael Starks and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey to France can be a journey through history. This useful book will pinpoint the places for the visitor, explain their historical significance in the context of the war, and also show, with photographs, maps, and sidebars, what there is to see and do in the town or at the site today.
Download or read book Traveller s History of Paris written by Robert Cole and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book France on the Eve of Revolution written by John Lough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch at first hand the changes taking place in French society an the agitations that were becoming increasingly loud for reform. This book, originally published in 1987, is a study of France in these crucial years seen through the eyes of the travellers. It marries the travellers’ accounts to analysis of the political state of France to produce a book equally illuminating of British taste and attitudies to France, and of the French political and social scene.
Download or read book A Traveller s History of Spain written by Juan Lalaguna and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will unlock the secrets of Spain's vibrant and colorful past, its people and culture for the interested traveler. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest settlements on the Iberian Peninsula, through the influences of the Romans, the Goths, and the Muslims, the traumas of expansion and the end of the Empire, right up to the present. Maps and line drawings.
