Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe

Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe

Paperback (22 Jul 2010)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Channel 4's Kevin McCloud shows us how to experience the highs - and the lows - of a grand tour through France, Italy, Greece and Turkey.

Loosely following in the footsteps of the most notorious grand tourists Kevin clambers in, on and amongst the greatest buildings, ruins and cities in Europe and also veers drastically off the official path to visit the brothels, bathhouses and drinking dens which formed the other half of the grand tourists' experiences. This accumulation of sights sounds and smells allows a sense of what it must have been like for a callow Briton to have come face to face with the heat and the noise, the drama and still living history of the civilisations of Europe. As always, Kevin, who speaks French and Italian fluently, is an entertaining and masterly companion as we delve behind the facades we all think we know so well.

Book information

ISBN: 9780753827888
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 914.04561
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 216
Weight: 256g
Height: 196mm
Width: 134mm
Spine width: 19mm