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France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022 Winner of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award 2022 'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator 'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson 'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' - The Time Original, ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
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 endi ...Show more
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction. A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular wo ...Show more
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
This title lets you explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of "The Discovery of France". No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Ro ...Show more
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extaordinary: a ...Show more
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
$44.99 AUD
Category: European
When Graham Robb made plans to cycle the legendary Via Heraklea, he had no idea that the line he plotted -- stretching from the south-western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, across the Pyrenees and towards the Alps -- would change the way he saw a civilization. It was an ancient path that took him deep in ...Show more
The Ancient Paths : Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
This is the latest from bestselling author, Graham Robb. The idea that became this book arrived one evening like an unwanted visitor. It clearly expected to stay for a long time, and I knew that its presence in my home would be extremely compromising. Treasure maps and secret paths belong to childhood. ...Show more
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$20.00 AUD
Category: British
When Graham Robb moved to a lonely house on the very edge of England, he discovered that the river winding around his new home once marked the southern boundary of the legendary Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land served as a buffer between Sco ...Show more
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. It is the oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in the country, and preoccupied the monarchs and parliaments of England, Scotla ...Show more
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic by Graham Robb
$23.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Colm TóibínTen years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively rece ...Show more
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