Along the Amber Route
| Author | : C. J. Schüler |
| Publisher | : Sandstone Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2020-02-27 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781912240920 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1912240920 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (920 Downloads) |
Download or read book Along the Amber Route written by C. J. Schüler and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Timely and powerful.' Financial Times Portable and expensive, amber has always been a desirable commodity. C.J. Schüler follows the historic Amber Route from St Petersburg to Venice through three millennia of history. Throughout his journey, current politics and his own family's experience of persecution and flight are never far from his mind.As he traces the greatest fault lines of European geopolitics and explores lands contested by Romans and Vandals, Teutons and Slavs, empires and the former Iron Curtain, Schüler must also confront his family history, Nazism and the Holocaust.
