Simone Veil was a French politician who became the fist President of the European Union. In her l...

Full of fascinating details and written with extraordinary sensitivity, Walking Pepys's London is...

A simple, readable study of the region, its historical influences, cultural sites and emerging po...

In the American mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little ...

The author describes her experience of buying a home in Umbria, Italy, and examines the region's ...

Woodsworth married into a Provencal family, and here details every facet of life in the region; a...

Istanbul is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh F...

A historical guide to the landscapes, cave towns, frescoed churches, Romanesque cathedrals, and G...

Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist have written a very personal guide to their Swedish homeland...

A biography that provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, ...

Voted one of the world's greatest travel books, now in a trade paper edition for the first time.

Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish fam...