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Remembering the Twentieth Century Limited de Matthew Mills Stevenson

Remembering the Twentieth Century Limited

Autor Matthew Mills Stevenson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2010

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In this new collection essays, Matthew Stevenson weaves together a historical tapestry of the last hundred years. From the battlefields of Gallipoli and those around Armenia, to Cold War Washington and modern Beirut, he has written a compelling, yet often humorous and always accessible account of persons and places encountered in his travels.
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ISBN-13: 9780970913364
ISBN-10: 0970913362
Pagini: 404
Dimensiuni: 157 x 231 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Odysseus Books

Notă biografică

Matthew Mills Stevenson was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island, attending Buckley Country Day School and Friends Academy. His university degrees are from Bucknell and Columbia universities, and he spent a year abroad with the Institute of European Studies in London and Vienna. He moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1991 and worked in banking until 2004. He is a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine, and the host of The Travel Hour, a radio program. He was a panelist on World Radio Switzerland's Not So Foreign Affairs, a weekly broadcast. His articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications in the U.S. and Europe. His books include: Letters of Transit, Mentioned in Dispatches, An April Across America, Remembering the Twentieth Century Limited, Whistle Stopping America, and Reading the Rails, a work of travel, history and politics. Recent books include Appalachia Spring, a drive across the coal belts of America and The Revolution as a Dinner Party: Across China with Edgar Snow, Mao Tse-tung, Joseph Stilwell, Chiang Kai-shek, and Sun Yat-sen. His new book is Biking with Bismarck: A Little Tour in France, a ride across French history.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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