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France: An Adventure History

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There were many topics I thought would have been covered or explored in more depth, and too many of the digressions were dull or uninteresting. In addition to the language, we began to appreciate the culture, but France’s history wasn’t in our study plans.

I definitely will read his other book "The Discovery of France" which covers the French Revolution to World War I. Rather difficult to describe, this is not any kind of traditional history but an account of the author's bicycle travels through France to relatively remote places where somewhat obscure events took place that illuminate aspects of French culture.Over the course of her first year, she is welcomed into the rhythms and routines that characterise life at the edge of the world.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a temporary digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review. There was no drop off in quality between the first and the last essay; each were as good as the last. I learned about people, times and places I knew nothing if and a lot more about aspects I thought I was familiar with.

Robb is British but he has traveled extensively in France, much of it on a bicycle, and his starting points are always personal and based on what he has seen with his own eyes. Instead of a distant view, coldly relating facts, Robb gets into the details of the people, describing sights, sounds, and smells. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, this is a a vivid, living history of one of the world's most fascinating nations, it will make even seasoned Francophiles wonder if they really know that terra incognita which is currently referred to as 'France'. France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly 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. He divides his book into three loose chronological parts, “Ancient Gaul to the Renaissance,” “Louis XIV to the Second Empire,” and “The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Republics.The point of the book wasn’t to focus on France’s famous history but rather, as appropriately titled, the adventure histories.

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