Europa Compass (24 Listed volumes)
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Sylvain Tesson
Berezina
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’vegot Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines... -
Andrea Marcolongo
The Ingenious Language
For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. -
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Fernand Braudel
Out of Italy
Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean.