France: An Adventure History

France: An Adventure History
Graham Robb
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h234 x 153mm - 544pg
17 Mar 2022 UK
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9781529007640
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France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army' s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, readers will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history - Louis XIV, the French Revolution, the French Resistance, the Tour de France - but all presented in a shining new light. Graham Robb does not offer a standard dry list of facts and dates, but instead a panorama of France, teeming with characters, full of stories, journeys and coincidences, giving readers a thrilling sense of discovery and enlightenment. France: An Adventure History is a vivid, living history of one of the world' s most fascinating nations by a ceaselessly entertaining writer in complete command of subject and style. _______ Praise for Graham Robb and The Discovery of France: ' Beautifully written and truly eccentric' - TLS ' An extraordinary journey of discovery' - Telegraph ' Robb carries the reader along on flawless prose' - Times ' Few authors write so well about things lost and neglected' - Guardian
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Medaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529007640
Published: 17 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 544

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