Germania
05 February 2010Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.
'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' – Independent
There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held...
Details
05 February 2010480 pages
9780330520867Imprint: Picador
Reviews
An engrossing, informative and hilarious readThe Sunday Times
Magnificently crazyWill Self, Esquire
The high plateau of my year was my catching up with Simon Winder. Danubia and Germania are an idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect.Sir Tom Stoppard, TLS
Travelogue and historical narrative are merged in a gloriously free-wheeling narrative of the entire sweep of German history.The Telegraph
