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From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, SaintPetersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Using his skills as an acclaimed journalist, Mak locates the smaller, personal stories within the epic arc ofhistory-talking to a former ticket-taker at the gates of the Birkenau concentration camp or noting the neat rows of tiny shoes in the abandoned nursery school in the shadow of Chernobyl. His unique approach makes thereader an eyewitness to a half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights and touching encounters. Sweeping in scale, but intimate in detail "In Europe" is amasterpiece.

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.
Half a century on, Geert Mak sets off from Steinbeck’s home. Mile after mile, as he retraces Steinbeck’s footsteps through the potato fields of Maine to the endless prairies of the Midwest and stumbles across glistening suburbs and boarded-up

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury.
In 1999, journalist and historian Geert Mak criss-crossed the continent in the simple yet monumental quest to trace European twentieth-century history as the world slipped into the twenty-first. In Europe is a dazzling account of that journey, and combines the lar

Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe.
Geert Mak introduces us to the cigarette vendors and the best pickpockets in Europe, to the pride of the cobbler and the tea-seller's homesickness

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.
In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recreates the lives of the early Amsterdammers, and traces Amsterdam's progress from waterlogged settlement to a major finan

In this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. 330 and falling). It's a typical European village where the shops are closing down, the few children left will escape to a less arduous life in the city and it's becoming increasingly isolated. Jowert has more in common with an English village than with Amsterdam, and it's moving story of neighbours and their efforts to preserve their long established way of life is relevant to the changing face of the co

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury.
In 1999, journalist and historian Geert Mak criss-crossed the continent in the simple yet monumental quest to trace European twentieth-century history as the world slipped into the twenty-first. In Europe is a dazzling account of that journey, and combines the larger story of Europe with intimate, vivid detail. It is also now a poignant reminder that the European project was then and is now a unprecedented experiment; that we still have ‘a great deal to tell each other and a great deal to explain.’

Книги нидерландского писателя и журналиста Геерта Мака (р. 1946) по истории Нидерландов, Амстердама и Европы пользуются огромной популярностью на его родине и за ее пределами. Он лауреат многочисленных литературных премий и дважды признавался "Историком года" в Нидерландах. Главное достоинство его небольшой книги "Нидерланды. Каприз истории" заключается в очень точной и глубокой передаче исторического самосознания голландцев. Автор не ставил перед собой задачи дать хронологически и событийно исчерпывающую картину истории страны, но постарался живо и увлекательно рассказать о прошлом "низинных земель". Мака часто называют "учителем истории", о котором мечтает каждый. Его книга - замечательное чтение для каждого, кто хочет не только составить себе представление о главных этапах многовековой истории этого края (начиная с присутствия здесь римлян), но и почувствовать неповторимость облика и культуры во многом рукотворной страны, отвоеванной людьми у моря, подарившей миру великих мореплавателей, художников, философов, страны, сказавшей свое громкое слово в истории европейской цивилизации. Это первая книга Геерта Мака, переведенная на русский язык.

Герт Мак, известный голландский журналист, c изяществом и блеском раскрывает нам душу и особый характер Амстердама. Используя городские архивные документы, церковные записи и дневники простых горожан, Мак методично воссоздает атмосферу города в дни его основания, становления, расцвета, упадка и новой волны развития. Перед глазами читателя проходит вереница горожан: от седобородых городских старейшин и бургомистров, до простых священников, торговцев, горничных-убийц и полусумасшедших "ведьм".