Description
| Product ID: | 9780330522793 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Danubia |
| Subtitle: | A Personal History of Habsburg Europe |
| Authors: | Author: Simon Winder |
| Page Count: | 464 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, Europe, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. <p>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.<br><br> 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. <i>Danubia</i> 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 <i>Germania</i> will be delighted by the eccentric and fascinating stories of the Habsburgs and their world.<br><br> <i>Danubia</i> was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-06-19 |