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A Traveller's History Of France (Traveller's Histories Series)
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by Robert Cole and Denis Judd
Sales Rank: 271085
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List Price: $14.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 238 pages
Published by: Interlink; 7 Revised edition January 31, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1566566061
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1566566063
Book Dimensions:
7.6 x 5 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
The Independent (London)
"Undoubtedly the best way to prepare for a trip to France gives the essential facts in a very readable form."
Small Press
"France comes alive in the pages of this book. This is the book for any potential traveller"
Reader Reviews
This review is from: A Traveller's History of France (Paperback)
When I travel I like to read the historic markers and understand the significance of what I am seeing. If I don't have a clue about the context ("the what dynasty was when?") I tend to feel lost and frustrated. Typically, I don't have the time in the weeks before my trip to digest an eight volume history of a country but would like a high level view of the important people, periods and events in the country's history. "A Traveller's History France" perfectly fit that bill. Some of the features I liked are a list of all the French kings and their linneage, a timeline with all the relevant events and an alphabetical list of major events and battles. The writing is lucid, succinct as well as funny and opinionated. In this kind of book its important to convey a sense and a feel of entire century in the space of a paragraph and to stay connected to the larger political and social themes imbedded in the historical minutae. Robert Cole does this quite well. The biggest negative for me is that half the book focuses on the last two hundred years and that is the period of French History I know best. I would have enjoyed more of a discussion of the rise of the monarchy, the British influence in France because of the various invasions and a richer discussion of the religious wars in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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