France: An Adventure History
$35.38
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
This is a profoundly original and 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 gilet 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 Fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529007640 |
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| ISBN-10: | 152900764X |
| Author: | Graham Robb |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 706g |
| Dimensions: | 45mm x 154mm x 233mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Graham Robb
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 Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.
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