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Danubia by Simon Winder
$20.00 AUD
Category: European
Longlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for NonfictionNow reissued with a fresh cover look, Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of ...Show more
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg by Simon Winder
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
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 princi ...Show more
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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 princi ...Show more
Germania by Simon Winder
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Simon Winder presents a unique exploration of German culture, from sausage advertisements to Wagner, in this Sunday Times top-ten bestseller. Now reissued with a fresh cover look.Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst a ...Show more
Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern by Simon Winder
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
A personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and landscape, it describes Germany's past afresh - and in doing so sees a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to eating some very strange f ...Show more
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country by Simon Winder
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Following Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the third and final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history. In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles ove ...Show more
Lotharingia - A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between by Simon Winder
$20.00 AUD
Category: European
Following Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history.At the heart of western Europe lies a huge swath of land, stretching from the mud and fogs of the North Sea coast, down through countle ...Show more
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