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  • Back in the USSR

    Heroic Adventures in Transnistria

    de Rory MacLean ...
    Transnistria is a nowhereland hugging a narrow valley near the Black Sea. No bigger than Cornwall or Rhode Island, the unrecognised country is a Soviet museum long occupied by Russian ‘peace-keepers’. Its oligarchs in Adidas track suits hunt wild boar with AK-47s. Its young people train for revolution at the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership. Its secret factories have supplied arms ... Leer más

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  • Stalin’s Nose

    Across the Face of Europe

    de Rory Maclean ...
    In Rory MacLean's ground breaking debut, Winston the pig drops onto uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. It is a distressing end to a distinguished Soviet spy. After the funeral aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Instead she hijacks her nephew and, with Winston in tow, sets out on one last ride. The Berlin Wall fell only ... Leer más

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  • Under the Dragon

    A Journey through Burma

    de Rory Maclean ...
    After the brutal suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives, Rory MacLean seized the chance to visit Burma. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the Golden Triangle, he heard stories of freedom fighters, government censors, basket weavers, farmers and lovers -- ordinary people struggling to survive under one of the most brutal and ... Leer más

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  • In North Korea

    Lives and Lies in the State of Truth

    de Maclean Rory ...
    North Koreans could change the world. Today their country can annihilate South Korea and Japan. By 2020 their aim is to have submarine-launched missiles able to nuke the US mainland. So who are the North Koreans? What do they think and feel? Are they belligerent automatons, indoctrinated by years of propaganda, with fingers hovering over trigger buttons? Or simply ordinary men and women who have ... Leer más

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  • Berlin

    Portrait of a City Through the Centuries

    de Rory MacLean ...
    A "sprawling, experimental, and . . . deeply enthralling" history of the German capital city ( Booklist, starred review).A Washington Post Best Book of the Year" Berlin is the most extraordinary work of history I've ever read . . . It's a work of imagination, reflection, reverence, perplexity, and criticism that reveals as much about the author's precocious mind as it does about the city he adores ... Leer más

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  • Wunderkind

    Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists

    de Rory MacLean ...
    What makes an artist? What forces and inklings drive a young man or woman to make their own journey, and where does it begin? In imaginary childhood games? In chance encounters? At the sensitive core of the human heart?To answer these and other questions, award-winning author Rory MacLean met more than one hundred working German artists. He traced how childhood obsessions or a spark of inspiration ... Leer más

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  • Berlijn

    een bewogen geschiedenis

    de Rory MacLean ...
    Traducido por Marie-Christine Ruijs, Pon Ruiter ...
    Berlijn is een stad van uitersten. Een stad van macht en vernedering, van geschiedenis en vernieuwing, van de geniaalste en de donkerste opvattingen die de twintigste eeuw kenmerken. In de levendige Duitse hoofdstad springen de legendes je dan ook naar de keel: Lenin bezocht dezelfde cafés als Bowies helden, de engelen van Wim Wenders zweven boven een met toortsen verlichte naziprocessie, Le ... Leer más

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  • Pravda Ha Ha

    Truth, Lies and the End of Europe

    de Rory MacLean ...
    Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carr****éIn 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were – for most Brits ... Leer más

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  • The Shortest History of Berlin

    de Rory MacLean ...
    Berlin's story is one of constant reinvention'Yesterday echoes along today's streets, and the ideas conjured up by Berlin's dreamers, dictators, liars and artists seem as solid as its bricks and mortar.'Shaped by waves of death and war, and all but obliterated in both the Hundred Years' and Second World Wars, Berlin is not an ancient city. Founded in the thirteenth century, this small trading post ... Leer más

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  • The Shortest History of Berlin

    de Rory MacLean ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    From award-winning author and travel writer Rory MacLean, the history of Germany’s capital city—from world wars to climate change initiatives, this is the story of Berlin through portraits of its leaders and architects, heroes and victims, mythmakers and artistsThe site of some of the world’s brightest and most devastating ideas, leaders, and movements, Berlin’s history is full of conflict and ... Leer más

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  • Duitse passages

    Een reis door twee eeuwen Duitsland

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    De ddr is verdwenen en Berlijn maakte na de val van de muur een stormachtige ontwikkeling door. Wellicht is Duitsland op dit moment het meest Europese land. Maar reizen in Duitsland blijft een reis door de geschiedenis. In Duitse passages schrijft Lo van Driel over tweehonderd jaar Duitse en daarmee Europese cultuur en geschiedenis. Over iedere plaats die hij aandoet is een bijzonder verhaal te ... Leer más

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  • The River of Lost Footsteps

    A Personal History of Burma

    de Thant Myint-U ...
    For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future?In ... Leer más

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