This pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around Iceland. It covers top attractions like the magical capital city of Reykjavik, whale-watching off Husavik and the spellbinding blue lagoon, as well as hidden gems, including the verdant island of Heimaey, the dramatic ......
This pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around Jeysey. It covers top attractions like the imposing Mont Orgueil Castle which towers above the village of Gorey, the unforgettable Jersey War Tunnels, and the uniquely interactive Maritime Museum,, as well as hidden gems, ......
This is an account of Queen Victoria's relationships with the Emperors, Empresses of France, Germany, Austria and Russia. Victoria had close connections with the royal houses of Germany long before the King of Prussia became the German Emperor in 1871 and with the exiled former Emperor of the French after the fall of the French Empire in 1870.
In 1977, a twenty-year-old naive American undertakes an epic nine-thousand-mile overland journey from Munich to Kathmandu. With his camera and his journal, he records and recounts his journey, wanderings and musings with candor and humor through cities and countries that are now inaccessible and too dangerous for the modern backpacking tourist.
Turnen around the World represents an international effort by an assemblage of prominent sport historians to detail and assess the worldwide scope, effects, and residual influences of the German Turnen movement over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A male nationalistic movement based on gymnastics and other physical activities ......
This book places early modern philosophy and political theory into conversation with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing on magic: plays, spell books, treatises, and witch trial narratives. Reading works by Hobbes and Bacon alongside writing by necromancers and witch-hunters reveals a broad cultural obsession with supernatural power.
For nearly three years, August 1941 to March 1944, 47,000 Spanish soldiers served under German command on the Russian front, two of those years con-tinuously in the line in the siege of Leningrad. There were 22,000 casu-alties, of which 4,500 were killed in ac-tion or died of wounds, disease, or frost-bite.
This pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around Croatia. It covers top attractions like Dubrovnik, Plitvice Lakes National Park and Rab Town, as well as hidden gems, including exploring the Roman amphiteatre in Pula, swimming in a lake in stunning Mljet National Park ......
