This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's London. Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin ... Zobraziť viac
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals;... Zobraziť viac
Sixteen years after Rene Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent,... Zobraziť viac
