Danubia
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Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013. For centuries the very peculiar Habsburg family ruled most of Central Europe and Germany. From their principal lairs along the Danube this unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. Danubia tells the history of this strange dynasty, but it is equally about the people and countries they ruled. Along the way Simon Winder delights in sharing eccentric and fascinating stories, plunging the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village. Accessible, insightful and hilarious, Danubia reveals the wonders of this vastly underappreciated part of Europe. 'Wonderfully readable and entertaining' Sunday Times 'Astoundingly smart . . . It is also damn funny' Scotland on Sunday 'Danubia is a hoot and well worth reading' Independent
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 principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere – indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them.
Simon Winder’s extremely funny new book plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village. Danubia is full of music, piracy, religion and fighting. It is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna. Readers who discovered Simon Winder’s genius for telling wonderful stories of middle Europe with Germania will be delighted by the eccentric and fascinating stories of the Habsburgs and their world.
Danubia was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 19 juni 2014
Aantal pagina's: 550
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Simon Winder
Tweede Auteur: Simon Winder
Hoofduitgeverij: Pica
Originele titel: Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 211
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Editie: 1
Product breedte: 130 mm
Product hoogte: 37 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 56 mm
Verpakking lengte: 195 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 1163 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9780330522793